Example sentences of "his [noun] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did ask his sister for money . |
| 2 | A stone fell and injured the plaintiff and he sued his employers for negligence . |
| 3 | As Sixsmith ordered a gin and tonic , and as he amusingly expatiated on his weakness for prawn cocktails , Alistair found himself wryly but powerfully drawn to this man — to this tousled screenplay writer with his dreamy gaze , the curious elisions of his somewhat slurred voice , and the great dents and bone-shadow of his face , all the faulty fontanelles of vocational care . |
| 4 | His weakness for girls from an escort agency run by an old friend of Jack 's had cost him dear over the years . |
| 5 | In the end it was his weakness for women and his love of the good life , particularly if sponsored by others , that proved fatal . |
| 6 | Against Fairplay , the employers ' journal , he bore a particular resentment , not least because it exploited his weakness for litigation and extravagant publications to rebut the statements of his enemies . |
| 7 | He may have been called ‘ Bubbles ’ because of his corpulence , his high spirits and his weakness for champagne , but he knew who he was and considered the whole business of being in FI , and being taken seriously in it , as something of a lark . |
| 8 | Knowing his weakness for cards and drink , she thought it wiser to keep such information to herself . |
| 9 | She came in fourth this time , riding a horse bred by her father , who is doing his bit for tradition by breeding both the horses and the riders ! |
| 10 | At Westminster School his enthusiasm for South Pacific and The Sound of Music was greeted with incredulity . |
| 11 | His critics accused his work of lacking in realism , but this did not lessen his popularity with those readers who enjoyed his enthusiasm for romance and adventure . |
| 12 | Clearly he is a man who , on the night in question allowed his enthusiasm for sex to overcome normal behaviour . ’ |
| 13 | After his talks with Mr Baker , Chancellor Kohl toned down his enthusiasm for moves toward German unity . |
| 14 | But his enthusiasm for system led him too easily to assume that a native administration duly gazetted was a native administration actually functioning as a responsible organ of local government , and this set a limit to his achievements in reform . |
| 15 | He must now , by my reckoning , be nearly a hundred years old , but in no way does his enthusiasm for life appear diminished . |
| 16 | Personally , I respect his view and at the same time am glad of his enthusiasm for church planting : ‘ I am convinced that Church Planting is a mark of vigorous and outgoing Christianity and is a sign of hope for the future ’ , he says . |
| 17 | These days , he is attempting to persuade record-buyers to share his enthusiasm for music from Eastern Europe : the Trio Bulgarka , from Sofia , and the hauntingly beautiful songs of the Hungarian Marta Sebestyen . |
| 18 | But his enthusiasm for spending is restrained . |
| 19 | Mr. Wilson : As the Minister reiterates his enthusiasm for bids that give workers a substantial say , does he consider that there is any conflict between that and what he has told us about the SDA investing £500,000 to ensure that such bids do not succeed ? |
| 20 | In view of the terms in which he was later to express his enthusiasm for Wagner , it is interesting to note what it was that first seriously attracted him : nor the morbid metaphysical-flavoured world of romance , the hypnotic emotional intensity and musical " modernity " of Tristan , representing at the time , the high point of Wagner 's most distinctive line of development ; nor indeed the available parts of the similarly " modern " , but emotionally more robust , Ring ; rather , the musically " reactionary " Meistersinger that deferred to traditional expectations of harmony , tonality and musical organization and depicted through the medium of " healthy " comic opera the successful struggle of artistic genius against stifling Hanslickian convention . |
| 21 | Since June 1868 his enthusiasm for Wagner and his works had been steadily growing . |
| 22 | There are countless stories about his enthusiasm for trains , from his few moments on the footplate of the Flying Scotsman to David Tweedie 's interview for a job at TMcL largely spent in discussing a mutual interest in the LNER . |
| 23 | Chris Bramwell presents a sympathetic Russian , exhorting his enthusiasm for particle physics as an artform with an appealing simplicity of one who would write a spy story without surprises . |
| 24 | Partly it resulted from a preference in his subject-matter for concrete cultural and social detail over Adorno 's tendency towards abstraction of social process : for instance , he offered something like a phenomenology of the ‘ shocks ’ inherent in modern city life ; he discussed actual and potential production practices within modern media , derived from his enthusiasm for Brecht 's ‘ epic theatre ’ ; he focused less on the totalities of aesthetic form than on the fluidities of technique , the conditions of production , and the variable nature of reception . |
| 25 | In negotiations with the Iranians , however , North maintained that his enthusiasm for war had no place . |
| 26 | This strong territorial element meant that when a major estate changed hands , whether by inheritance or forfeiture , the affinity of the previous owner would tend to turn to his successor for lordship . |
| 27 | This strong territorial element meant that when a major estate changed hands , whether by inheritance or forfeiture , the affinity of the previous owner would tend to turn to his successor for lordship . |
| 28 | His own father had given him his creed for life — ‘ the best is only just good enough for you ’ — and he himself preached that doctrine until the day he died , in 1987 . |
| 29 | With parents Mr. Philpot shewed his genius for tact and diplomacy . |
| 30 | The press reported that Sununu blamed his recent difficulties on a vendetta being pursued against him by enemies within the White House , elements of the liberal press and Jewish groups opposed to his Lebanese ancestry and his calls for even-handedness in US policy towards the Middle East . |