Example sentences of "of [noun] for his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps it was a show of support for his disciplining of Gilchrist ; perhaps there was the feeling that Worrell had drifted away from the hub of West Indies cricket ; or perhaps once again the selectors simply could not bring themselves to appoint a black man . |
| 2 | Ironically , it was his brother Robert , angered by Anselm 's lack of support for his evidently just case , who counselled this truculent attitude . |
| 3 | President Mengistu Haile Mariam , in a nationally broadcast speech in Addis Ababa on March 5 , put forward proposals for far-reaching economic liberalization , accompanied by political changes to broaden the basis of support for his beleaguered regime . |
| 4 | In December he supported the formation of a new Moslem organization ( the Association of Moslem Intellectuals ) , which united a broad spectrum of Moslem interests and was widely expected to be the basis of support for his candidacy in 1993 [ see p. 37919 ] . |
| 5 | He then gave a couple of reasons for his spectacular performance , which included 11 birdies . |
| 6 | Mr Evans came under attack in yesterday 's report of the official Jockey Club inquiry for standing too close to the starting line , and thus being primarily concerned with escaping the thunder of dozens of pairs of hooves for his own safety , rather than waving his flag . |
| 7 | Getting a partnership is not easy , and the new partner who can not provide capital is inevitably burdened with some form of payment for his share . |
| 8 | She and Madeleine would make a fine pair of concubines for his personal pleasure . |
| 9 | The political overtones to this imbroglio reflected the need of King Stephen [ q.v. ] to control the northern sees during the civil war , for David , king of Scots [ q.v. ] , the ally of the Empress Matilda [ q.v. ] , reinforcing his acquisitions in England north of Tyne , had in 1139 secured the earldom of Northumberland for his son Henry . |
| 10 | Blaming other people , while opting out of responsibility for his or her own condition , is the hallmark of a sufferer from addictive disease . |
| 11 | With the exception of preparation for his meeting with Kiichi Miyazawa , the prime minister of Japan , he has still not had a full-blown meeting on trade with his economic team . |
| 12 | He wondered if his Mum had fixed on the wallpaper with the Birds of Paradise for his new room . |
| 13 | Geoff says : ‘ Eddie 's cool , calm and collected approach still amazes me , and I 'm full of admiration for his flying skills — for which I will be eternally grateful ! ’ |
| 14 | Danny felt a wave of admiration for his friend and affectionately put an arm around his shoulders . |
| 15 | Shelley watched them go , her heart full of admiration for his humanity and his talent — and bitterness because he had made such a fool of her . |
| 16 | I do n't have a great deal of sympathy for his argument , since the BBC has to live in the real world like everyone else . |
| 17 | But although Ralph 's business is being hit by the dispute , he has a certain amount of sympathy for his French counterparts . |
| 18 | He knows better than that , and anyway he is rumoured to be paying the Italian genius a lot of money for his one-box design vision that forms part of BMW 's long-rumoured MPV programme . |
| 19 | The formula sets an amount for maintenance ( based upon income support rates ) , allows the absent parent an amount of money for his personal needs ( again set by income support rates and also including reasonable housing costs ) , and then requires the absent parent to pay half of his remaining income in child support . |
| 20 | One of the few occasions when she had been really cross with me had been when I suggested he might have been wiser to make some sort of provision for his wife and son . |
| 21 | Tony 's interests had been wider at one time , but now his mind was full of plans for his marriage with Helen , and his new car . |
| 22 | Christie , so adept at getting the aid of Administration for his own business , knew exactly where to look for help , and approached Lord Ilay through his deputy , Lord Milton , and without any attempt to bargain simply asked for an appointment for his son , promising that it would ‘ forever laye me under the deepest obligationes ’ . |
| 23 | Some of the princes of Germany doubted the validity of the election on the grounds that Frederick had not been baptized at the time and he had only been elected , they said , out of fear for his father . |
| 24 | Then they formed a slow procession behind the coffin into the mountains to the old royal capital of Cetinje for his reburial in the monastery there . |
| 25 | These days he trains every morning with Torquay , the club he now captains , does weights in the afternoon at the town 's Imperial Hotel , then does another lot of weights for his upper body three nights a week at the local gym . |
| 26 | He was later to become notorious as the scourge of Sutherland for his role in the highland clearances . |
| 27 | He turned slightly in the seat , the light from a street-lamp gilding the carved tanned planes of his face , turning the thickness of his hair to midnight silk , so that despite herself Fran felt a tiny ripple of appreciation for his male beauty . |
| 28 | THE Queen has spoken of her concern for the environment while praising the Sultan of Brunei for his work in protecting his country 's rainforests . |
| 29 | The SSA would particularly like to thank Crispin On of Dulwich for his fine efforts in organising the squash competition . |
| 30 | In 1837 he received a silver Isis medal from the Society of Arts for his drawing of a marine steam engine , and in 1838 a silver Telford medal for his drawings and description of Huddert 's rope machinery . |