Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [prep] his [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A little later Bacon appeared , walked up to their table and asked Minton why he did not look after his back numbers . |
| 2 | Riddle , a systematic person , had used it for all the oddments he had wished to keep which did not fit into his filing system , and the bottom of the drawer was covered to a depth of two or three inches with papers . |
| 3 | Eliot may not have in his poem Kipling 's Greek slave on a galley out of Egypt , but he does give us a slightly earlier seafarer who sailed out of the Middle East and whose story might be thought to be specially appropriate to those clerks who work in the city — |
| 4 | Paul Creed under pressure could not reach with his back pass , but Mick Allen wasted a good chance by putting wide . |
| 5 | Bush , the man who could not handle domestic politics , could not cope with his Republican Party in the budget , had displayed not the slightest interest in the worsening problems of poverty in the United States , could be freed to play war . |
| 6 | And that 's a sum he can not afford without his Disability Living Allowance . |
| 7 | Beaverbrook 's Express group did not prosper under his son Max Aitken , who sold out some ten years after Beaverbrook 's death . |
| 8 | He may not sue in his business name , although this may properly be recited in the particulars of claim to avoid confusion . |
| 9 | In a like manner the traveller in a three-dimensional , homogeneous , isotropic , positively curved space would eventually return to his starting point . |
| 10 | Now neuro-surgeon Mr Nath is intending to take part in a cross country half marathon on the North Yorks Moors in July but he is hoping local clubs and societies will also join in his fundraising push . |
| 11 | Brian May is one of my favourite guitarists and I found that I could really relate to his window idea . |
| 12 | He may legitimately expect from his field officer detailed knowledge of and familiarity with any discharger or any ‘ problems ’ . |
| 13 | Ensure that your child does n't rely on his emergency bronchodilator , or forget about his condition after he 's had an attack . |
| 14 | HE 'S no ball player and certainly not one of the game 's better athletes , but you just ca n't argue with his goalscoring record over the years . |
| 15 | Either way , the lad did n't argue with his heavyweight mum . |
| 16 | ‘ We 're just hoping the dead man does n't ask for his tendon back , ’ added the manager . |
| 17 | In the laboratory he did undoubtedly think with his hands thoughts which he could not clearly express in words , or in the more accurate language of mathematics ( which he distrusted ) ; but he did try in his lectures to put across some of his underlying convictions . |
| 18 | 3.14 There is a head of damage which is sometimes called the loss of amenities ; the man made blind by the accident will no longer be able to see the familiar things he has seen all his life ; the man who has had both legs removed and will never again go upon his walking excursions — things of that kind — loss of amenities ( per Birkett LJ in Manley v Rugby Portland Cement Co Ltd , a decision of the Court of Appeal in 1951 ) . |
| 19 | A traveller who moves out radially from his origin will never return to his starting point . |