Example sentences of "and his [noun sg] do [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tony Smith 's a bigamist and his wife does n't like it and Miranda ‘ s on the game and claiming . |
| 2 | As it happened , the rift between Dorothy and her brother and his wife did not last long , much to Miss Fogerty 's relief . |
| 3 | Mack and his wife did not take an active part in the Society , owing to Mack 's illness , but he always took an interest in what we were doing . |
| 4 | Derek and his wife did n't wave . |
| 5 | We are confronted with a man whose sole aim in life is to manipulate and destroy others , a dedication to evil that even Macbeth and his wife do not match . |
| 6 | He was murdered in 1969 and his assassin did not hesitate to put the blame on the ‘ big men ’ . |
| 7 | From Brynner 's point of view , Rock thinks , his son was both a living rebuke and a terrible financial failure , and his drinking did n't help either . |
| 8 | Legislation had been passed , at the height of the bubble , to stop the creation of new joint-stock companies , which ruled out one of the ways in which the British had organized their expansion overseas , Walpole , the Prime Minister who picked up the pieces after the collapse , was first of all concerned to make sure that the King and his government did not run into any more trouble , which meant a programme of no new taxes , no wars , no new assertion of authority , and much less expansion than either before or after . |
| 9 | Drummond also , presumably , was not averse to the larger salary which was attached to the superior rank , and his tenderness did not stop him from making the journey to Perth to vote for Argyll 's candidate , when John Murray carried the crucial vote for preses of the Michaelmas head court by a single vote . |
| 10 | Mr Afshar was not an intellectual and his position did not afford him great administrative power . |
| 11 | Fleming continued to experiment as a bacteriologist with his material , but he had no advanced training in chemistry , and his environment did not throw chemically expert colleagues in his way . |
| 12 | However , Tanganyika was not yet ready for the sentiments expressed by Fiah , and his paper did not survive the 1940s . |
| 13 | When asked how he came up with this figure he could n't quite s remember and his department did n't know , so if you put that to one side . |
| 14 | He would of course require a pastoral call even if he did not — and his car did not bode well — look like the kind of man Peter might hope for , as a breath of fresh air on the PCC ; as a possible churchwarden in place of old Sir Francis Mayhew who said he 'd done fifteen years which was more than enough ; or even as a parishioner willing to raise the £25,000 that the diocesan architect had said would have to be spent on Loxford church roof within the next three years . |
| 15 | THE family of Magheraberry life prisoner Bobby Corry have asked us to point out that they did not attend his wedding on Thursday to fellow prisoner Anna Moore and his brother did not act as best man as suggested in our report . |
| 16 | There is a social stigma about suicide and his family do n't believe he did it . |
| 17 | The farmer can not have known of ancient alignments , and his reconstruction did not accord with the circle 's original orientation on the southern moon . |
| 18 | And his set did n't have a gold one . ’ |