Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Working closely with Ron Willey can only enhance his future coaching prospects . ’ |
| 2 | However , Mains regards himself more as a forward coach these days , and will obviously make his strongest impact there — especially if Brewer is there to help . |
| 3 | Given the standard-setting qualities of the team 's FW15 car , which will make its racing debut at Kyalami in 12 weeks , there is every chance Hill may not only win his first race with the Didcot team but also go on to challenge for his first title . |
| 4 | This is one of the main reasons for the statement that an engineer can only do his own job well if he understands those of the other functions in his company . |
| 5 | He would then be able to judge to which of the latter he could most advantageously give his second preference , and this informed choice could well not be the same as the " blind " choice the STV obliges him to make . |
| 6 | P.P.S. If any of this is anything to do with that creep Gavin I will personally break his personal fucking neck . |
| 7 | Nicholas believed that ‘ No man can so much advance his own good and happiness in anything as endeavouring all that in him lies the good and welfare of others ; and who doth that daily doth perform the greatest good to himself as he can desire or wish for . ’ |
| 8 | If ‘ that bloody woman ’ had heard him utter such a curse , she would have ripped into him with a piece of her mind , then he would have whipped her with his tongue , then this sop of a man before him would have got between them , and afore you knew it , there would be a full-scale war waging — and in the heat of the moment he might foolishly betray his devious plans to boot the lot of them out of his house and out of his life . |
| 9 | On his father 's death in 1851 John took over his dental practice at 12 Dundas Street , although he did not entirely forgo his medical interests , since in 1859 he proposed the foundation of what was to become the Royal Edinburgh Hospital for Sick Children . |
| 10 | After a few moments of frozen hesitation , she realised that to refuse his offer would only reinforce his current impression that she was a frigid little puritan with hang-ups about physical contact . |
| 11 | Edberg could only rue his squandered chances , especially in the crucial tie break which he gifted to his 22-year-old opponent 11–9 with a disastrous double fault . |
| 12 | His friends will hope that as an Honorary Fellow he may long maintain his close association with that great foundation ; that with greater leisure he will increase his production and that his visits to Colnaghi 's will not be rare . |
| 13 | The portrait , he thought , must have been even more powerful than he realized if it could so dominate his physical reaction to the living woman . |
| 14 | She concludes that an individual ‘ can only protect his own patterning from the invasion of others by a kind of wild jay-walking among the traffic , trying not to get run over ’ ( 614 ) . |
| 15 | Now I , I think that , you know , if Mr 's got any complaints about that , and he says that that is n't privileged , well I think he can only blame his own administration as well as anybody else 's . |
| 16 | Yes , well , I think we 'd better leave his ruder sayings off the air at the moment . |
| 17 | As a BBC employee , Whitaker could only receive his monthly salary . |
| 18 | He 'd obviously put his own glass down , because he halted her by grabbing her shoulders and bringing her to a halt . |
| 19 | ‘ He 'd better wear his best suit then . ’ |
| 20 | Then with about 7 minutes to go , Goodmans speed got through the defence again and Beeny could only parry his low shot for Gray ( there was about 5 of them on the pitch ) to tap in . |
| 21 | My Proposition , embracing The House of the Dead , Notes from Underground , Crime and Punishment , The Possessed , Karamazov , and , negatively , by way of relative failure , The Idiot , is that Dostoevsky could only promote his dearest values by creeping up on their blind side : in other words that he had an urge towards crisis and clarity which he could only satisfy by yielding it to the enemy — to the horror of the flogging routine in the ‘ Thy kingdom come ’ episode in the Dead House at one chronological extreme , and to Ivan Karamazov 's showdown with the Religion Swindle at the other . |
| 22 | The acquisition of Palestine would greatly increase his economic and political power , which was marginal given the poor resources of Transjordan . |
| 23 | But what people notice about Anthony is the way he holds his head down , that he 'll hardly ever look you in the eye , and the manner in which he will suddenly turn his whole head away if ever there is disagreement or he is challenged in some way . |
| 24 | Ironically , it would be Cats that would eventually bring his first marriage to an end . |
| 25 | The marketing man on the other hand is full of enthusiasm for this latest onslaught on the market and most certainly does not think his new " baby " is at all routine . |
| 26 | ‘ We do not think his mental state will deteriorate immediately without medication , but we would obviously be anxious to have him back . ’ |
| 27 | The judge gave short shrift to an argument based on the right to free speech , and held that it did not affect his primary conclusion as stated above . |
| 28 | The undertaker was a coffin-maker and performer of funerals , whereas the funeral furnisher did not make his own coffins , but bought them in ready-made , dressed them and in addition performed the funeral . |
| 29 | Taylor will not want his former Aston Villa protege to be missing from the next World Cup qualifier against San Marino at Wembley at February 17 . |
| 30 | He has turned his head away , she is glad , she does not want his mocking face listening . |