Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [vb infin] his [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is therefore extremely significant that we read of Jesus in the New Testament that the Spirit descends and remains on him ( John 1:32 ) and that God did not give his Spirit by measure or sparingly to him ( John 3:34 ) . |
| 2 | Although Price did not give his evidence on oath ( because under Swedish law an accomplice can not be required to give evidence on oath ) , he was reminded of his duty to speak the truth when questioned in court , and he declared himself to be aware of his duty of truthfulness . |
| 3 | Gore apparently did not want his name on the cover of the book and wished for it to be published by the Canadian fascist , Arcand , so that he could not be sued . |
| 4 | Sugar said Venables was still empowered to return as a non-executive director , but was adamant he did not want his opponent at the club . |
| 5 | He was gelded and given time to mature a little before being asked to race , and he did not make his debut until 23 February 1929 . |
| 6 | Manville did not regard his surveillance as a betrayal of trust , either . |
| 7 | In 1982 , two days before he died , he wrote a document in his own handwriting headed ‘ My Will by Percy Winterbone ’ but did not sign his name at the foot of the document . |
| 8 | But to her mind it still did not excuse his neglect of everything else . |
| 9 | The court recognised that the police officer 's description of TJ did not fit his appearance at court ; and there was a 17-month delay between the incident and the parade . |
| 10 | The audience were slow to take their seats , the warm-up was too long and Mr Major did not finish his speech until well after nine . |
| 11 | This man , he was a criminal , he was one of the worst , he had broken the laws of the land and he was being crucified for that reason but the measure of his sin , the gravity of his sin , did not alter his chance of sa being saved . |
| 12 | Biya did not alter his position on the holding of a national conference , a central demand of the opposition , which he had refused to countenance . |
| 13 | Certainly , Mr Major did not frame his budget with much of an eye on the next dreadful six months — and may yet be forced to raise interest rates . |
| 14 | He did not rest his decision on agency . |
| 15 | Even as heir-apparent , he had been in correspondence with Louis XVI of France concerning his plans for reorganising the army , and the overthrow of the French monarchy in the year of his accession , 1789 , did not diminish his enthusiasm for learning from the west . |
| 16 | I was passing to the side of the refreshment hut and noticed that the door was slightly ajar , which was unusual because the genial Len who ran the place did not open his hut during a tournament as all the catering was franchised out . |
| 17 | As a forensic argument , of course , it has been successful ; but I sometimes fed a residual bitterness that one of these defence counsel , when speaking for a true work of literature , did not build his act on simple defiance . |
| 18 | Innocent 's letters of the summer and autumn 1200 ( to all the princes of Germany , to Philip Augustus , to King John and to the duke of Brabant and his wife ) did not hide his preference for Otto . |
| 19 | Awareness of the social reality of the USSR , recognition that Soviet men and women experienced the same angst as those peoples living in pre-revolutionary societies disturbed Nizan but did not shake his faith in the ultimate justice and morality of the Soviet cause . |
| 20 | He did not meet his mother from infancy until the age of twelve , when they found themselves accidentally in the same workhouse : but instead of the ‘ gush of tenderness ’ between them of which he had dreamt , ‘ her expression was so chilling that the valves of my heart closed as with a snap … |
| 21 | Karl turned and walked back along the other side of the garden , although this time Erika did not draw his attention to the words of Josef Stalin paying tribute to glorious workers , doctors , nurses , and so on . |
| 22 | So when Tommaso showed interest in her during those Easter holidays , she noticed him ; while Caterina remained unaware , for she had always the effect of spreading pleasure , and did not remark his response to her , his alert shoulders , his greedy pale eyes tensing for a moment , then flicking guiltily away to contemplate her sister . |
| 23 | This did not prevent his approach from becoming associated ( with some justification ) with a theory of interest groups . |
| 24 | In 1859 Beresford headed a protest against the Derby ministry 's reform bill but did not press his opposition to a vote . |
| 25 | Souness may have been banished to the stands , but it did not stop his side from assaulting the Russian goal as early as the second minute when Don Hutchison drove Steve McManaman 's cross over . |
| 26 | John and Mary , his second American film , did not satisfy his love of action , nor did it provide him with the opportunity to demonstrate his fine sense of place . |
| 27 | Although Sharir did not confirm his defection until April 7 , Peres informed President Chaim Herzog on April 4 that he had succeeded in gaining a majority and intended to request that the Knesset be reconvened from its Passover recess for a vote of confidence . |
| 28 | Nevertheless he did not base his decision upon section 25 , but held that the sellers ' lien was defeated because the sellers , who knew in advance of the sub-sale , had assented to it in a way that indicated their intention to forego the lien . |
| 29 | They did not like his approach to it . |
| 30 | It is likely that Mason , who did not receive his degree from Emmanuel College , Cambridge , until later , took the post as a temporary position before embarking on an ecclesiastical career . |