Example sentences of "for his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet the argument that she sacrificed her art for his is as stupid as the argument about who influenced whom . |
| 2 | The overwhelming case for his inclusion was neither as Archbishop nor as martyr but as author of the magnificent liturgy which held the Church together during the tribulations of the next century , and above all for his Collects , which Anglicans through four centuries would learn by heart as children and recite when they came to die . |
| 3 | The higher a man 's rank , the better the mount he was expected to have , so that the horse of a knight could cost twice that expected of an esquire , while a banneret might , in turn , pay double the price a knight-bachelor could pay for his . |
| 4 | I was fighting not just for my own sake , but for his too : I did not see why he should not permit himself to love . |
| 5 | court had discretion to order defence to be struck out unless defendant underwent medical examination to determine whether he was capable of remembering the accident where he was the only witness for his pleaded defence . |
| 6 | ‘ Do you take my word for his ? ’ she said . |
| 7 | Their nerve was a match for his ; they had most of them served him several years , for his men did not leave him . |
| 8 | Here are take one for his out . |
| 9 | Following a general strike and calls for his resignation , the President was arrested on 26 March by fellow army officers . |
| 10 | If AI members have any surplus sheet music , would they consider letting George Jackson have it for his stall ? |
| 11 | Sentenced to 30 years for his peaceful political views |
| 12 | Please send courteous letters appealing for his immediate and unconditional release to : |
| 13 | He was originally held in Safi Prison , where he developed diabetes in 1988 , but was then transferred to Marrakech where his family lives , and so could visit him regularly and provide him with the food necessary for his diabetic diet . |
| 14 | Please send courteous appealing for his release , if possible in French or Arabic to : |
| 15 | Please send courteous letters appealing for his immediate release to : |
| 16 | ‘ I want to paint men and women with that something of the eternal which the halo used to symbolize , ’ Van Gogh had written , groping to define for his brother the human essence that was his aim in pictures such as this . ’ |
| 17 | Van Gogh is famous not only for his art , but for his writing . |
| 18 | Van Gogh is famous not only for his art , but for his writing . |
| 19 | The catalogue has the additional interest of a memoir by Silvio Berthoud , who had sat as a boy between five and eight for his uncle : |
| 20 | Some readers were upset by the hostility shown towards the murdered woman , and by the sympathy shown towards Jimmy — the sympathy of an author noted for his sceptical attitude towards revolutionaries , who had been hostile , in print , to all of the participants in the historical events which supplied part of his plot . |
| 21 | Salim makes good his escape on the steamer — bound , we take it , for his bride . |
| 22 | ( Elsewhere , another angry gentleman of the period , Evelyn Waugh , had waited for his children to be of an age to converse with him , before taking an interest . ) |
| 23 | He was worshipped then for his talent and untimely death — perhaps a little as Eliot was to be worshipped , in the 1940s and '50s , for his saintly abstention from the world . |
| 24 | He was worshipped then for his talent and untimely death — perhaps a little as Eliot was to be worshipped , in the 1940s and '50s , for his saintly abstention from the world . |
| 25 | I feel that Albert Maillard , if he existed , would have no time for Kapuscinski 's impressionism , for his absence of dates , figures and state papers , and that Albert Maillard would be wrong . |
| 26 | Lermontov , for his part , was a character out of Byron , and so was Pechorin , the ‘ hero of our time ’ in Lermontov 's novel of 1839 , one of those people ‘ who are fated to attract all kinds of unusual things ’ . |
| 27 | Two occasions in the book about his partisans quietly illustrate what he is for his readers in this respect . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , they contain persuasive evidence to indicate that there was more for his people to do , and talk about , that there was more fun , than there is now in some parts of urban Scotland . |
| 29 | And fit his mind to death , for his soul 's rest . |
| 30 | Sassoon Sassoon was a public school man ( read his book Memoirs of a Fox-hunting Man ) and his slightly cold style is only a front for his real feelings . |