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Example sentences for "for his"

  • The judge himself was a kind and thoughtful person.

  • The discovery is one of absorbing interest to myself, but it is of a sentimental rather than commercial value, and business is business.

  • They told me he reported that it was a philosophical work, little likely to be popular with a large circle of readers.

  • Sergeant Shepherd was heard at great length on the other side, and contended that his client was perfectly justified in taking into custody a man who was inciting others to commit a breach of the peace.

  • Who is there here that would not die for his friend?

  • The Chancellor, D'Aguesseau, who had been dismissed in 1718 for his opposition to the projects of Law, was now recalled to aid in the restoration of credit.

  • The Duke of Wharton said the House ought to show no respect of persons; that, for his part, he would give up the dearest friend he had, if he had been engaged in the project.

  • The council debated long on the remedies to be taken, and Law, being called on for his advice, was of opinion, that an edict should be published, depreciating the value of coin five per cent.

  • Who is there here that would betray him for his interest?

  • Thus was all the work of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation finished: and the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did they.

  • And the two ends of the two wreathen chains they fastened in the two ouches, and put them on the shoulderpieces of the ephod, before it.

  • The experience had been too much for his consciousness to keep up with, and now that he had grasped it it had gone again.

  • For his part, he would not "for an instant recognise that political organisation for HIS government which is the SLAVE'S government also.

  • For more than five years, this was all that he required to do for his support, and he had the winter and most of the summer at his entire disposal.

  • He did not die futilely, for his death in the cause of a strange American girl will make us, his comrades, face our ends the more bravely, however they may come to us.

  • At present he had more important business in hand, for his supply of arrows was exhausted, and he must needs journey to the black men's village and renew it.

  • If you know the strange white man who saved our lives so many times, and brought us food, and if you can converse with him, thank him, also, for his kindness.

  • Among them came a Buffoon well known among the populace for his jokes, and said that he had a kind of entertainment which had never been brought out on any stage before.

  • The Hound replied, "You do not see the difference between us: I was only running for a dinner, but he for his life.

  • It happened, at length, that he had occasion to change the instrument in his hand, for his shoemaker's knife.

  • For his daughter's sake, my dear Manette!

  • If he evade us there, Enforce him with his envy to the people, And that the spoil got on the Antiates Was ne'er distributed.

  • Go back again, thou slave, and fetch him home.

  • Will you sterner be Than he that dies and lives by bloody drops?

  • Only, in this disguise, I think't no sin To cozen him that would unjustly win.

  • For his bounty, There was no winter in't; an autumn 'twas That grew the more by reaping.

  • But I would not be the party that should desire you to touch him, for his biting is immortal; those that do die of it do seldom or never recover.

  • By thee; and this thou didst return from him- That he did buffet thee, and in his blows Denied my house for his, me for his wife.

  • A woman that Bears all down with her brain; and this her son Cannot take two from twenty, for his heart, And leave eighteen.

  • The form of the mountains changed in an instant.

  • Let us make a stride across the narrow strip of Chili, and over the Cordilleras of the Andes, and get into the heart of the Pampas.

  • Up to what moment did you see him beside you?

  • The low-lying tract of marshy ground, still under water, soon lay behind them, as Thalcave led them upward to the higher plains.

  • She knew he bent down and thrust his arm into the wigwam, for his fury at the result expressed itself plainly enough.

  • She came here with plenty, but Sir Nigel got hold of it for his games, and they're the games that cost money.

  • Remus rousing the citizens within to revolt, and Romulus making attacks from without, the tyrant, not knowing either what to do, or what expedient to think of for his security, in this perplexity and confusion was taken and put to death.

  • Alcibiades did indeed buy it, but then claimed it for his own, leaving Diomedes to rage at him, and to call upon the gods and men to bear witness to the injustice.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    for many; for more; for several; for the; for the first time; for the last time; for the most part; for there; for thy; for two; fore part; foreign commodities; foreign countries; foreign devil; foreign devils; foreign governments; foreign intervention; forest life; forgive those who trespass; forked tongue; form some; formed part; former note; formerly known; fortunate enough; forty hours