Example sentences of "[vb mod] [adv] [verb] to his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I do n't suppose he 'll never get to his home and see his wile again . |
| 2 | We were sad because he could not come to my room and I could not go to his home , where it would have been difficult to explain our relationship . |
| 3 | He knew he could always go to his mother for help , but pride stopped him . |
| 4 | Brian May is one of my favourite guitarists and I found that I could really relate to his window idea . |
| 5 | But the opposing school could n't adjust to his rarity and left plenty of useful gaps in the offside field . |
| 6 | I need not refer to his history in any more detail up to June 1990 , but in that month he went to a residential school where his mother continued to visit him and in October 1990 he absconded from that school . |
| 7 | In a like manner the traveller in a three-dimensional , homogeneous , isotropic , positively curved space would eventually return to his starting point . |
| 8 | Luke 's age would only add to his glamour . |
| 9 | She would not yield to his curiosity . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's not true , ’ Davide began , but words would not come to his help . |
| 11 | Whether or not Pluto ruled her temperament , she would not rise to his bait . |
| 12 | The boy had been told unequivocally not to let her off the lead — the riding-school only used the land by grace of its owner and it was a shooting estate — but he hated keeping the dog straining at the lead and knew that she would always come to his call . |
| 13 | He would also read to his wife at the end of the day — from Boswell 's Life of Johnson , from Coleridge 's Letters , from Rudyard Kipling 's Kim ( an especial favourite ) and sometimes from his own work . |
| 14 | But Balliol himself ? presumably he would now return to his army in the west . |
| 15 | " Do you think those people down there are really so different from us , Momma ? " he asked , keeping his voice low so that it would n't carry to his father 's ears . |
| 16 | If truth were told , it made her a lot more than simply afraid , but telling him that would simply add to his ammunition . |
| 17 | ‘ He will not talk to his son . ’ |
| 18 | If the Senate will not agree to his design for a new Rome , then he will burn down the present one and give them no choice . |
| 19 | But Accies stopper Weir insists he will not add to his tally in tomorrow 's final at St Mirren 's Love Street ground . |
| 20 | The answer reflects the terrible frustration that must exist within him , the daily , fierce struggle with a body and mind that will not capitulate to his bidding . |
| 21 | His full support for the anti-Saddam coalition has not been universally popular : hence his latest diplomatic effort , which he must hope will still redound to his credit and give the Soviet Union a useful base on which to build a role in the post-war Middle East . |
| 22 | For those whose chief concern is for Yeats , the book will of course make him seem shadowy and self-deluding , but it will also testify to his conscientiousness and loyalty . |
| 23 | A traveller who moves out radially from his origin will never return to his starting point . |
| 24 | The horse will continually overreact to his handler and everything around him ; and he will be nervy , difficult , and ‘ jumpy ’ much of the time . |
| 25 | No Archbishop of Canterbury can simply pronounce to his flock , as does the Pope , and have the whole Church toe the line |