Example sentences of "[coord] [vb infin] his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , Ross 's inability to telephone , or feel the need to apologise or explain his frequent absences , had n't helped matters . |
| 2 | Nowadays no clergyman is entitled to a living of the sort which used to make or break his marital prospects in Jane Austen novels , but incumbents still enjoy tenure . |
| 3 | Hotels , restaurants and other local businesses are known to have been deeply disappointed that the city failed to make a suitable offer which might have persuaded the Baron to forestall or reconsider his new arrangements in Madrid . |
| 4 | Neither man had time to conceal or alter his facial expression , and Rostov was struck by the disparity . |
| 5 | The emir was not permitted to legislate , to appropriate land for public or commercial purposes , to exercise any control over aliens in his territory , or to appoint or depose his subordinate chiefs . |
| 6 | It meant the ability to educate and supervise his own children rather than be driven to place them in the mill , and to preserve a customary life-style . |
| 7 | No sane malefactor would want to settle and conduct his predatory business in territory controlled by so active and powerful a magnate as Robert Beaumont , earl of Leicester . |
| 8 | James Spicer explained that we both had pressing jobs to do and the Inspector agreed to take my statement immediately and that Tony could go off and make his final checks of the golf course and make his statement later . |
| 9 | " You might at least ask him to go and make his own baby 's bottle , " said Clelia . |
| 10 | HOW DOES one involve Van Morrison in a show that basically wants to document and explain his ultra-hefty talents ? |
| 11 | Under the new scheme , a man er with a little extra effort could afford to offset and compensate his own er er earnings . |
| 12 | When they persisted in calling on Iraq 's Shia majority to rise up and overthrow his Sunni-based regime , he was forced into war . |
| 13 | June and Robert Braithwaite achieved much better intercourse both in and out of bed when she learned to understand and value his greater need of physical sensation and he became less worried by her being different and placing a lower value on physical experience . |
| 14 | As I had anticipated , he gave his kind permission after not too great a delay , and furthermore , Mr Farraday was good enough to remember and reiterate his generous offer to ‘ foot the bill for the gas ’ . |
| 15 | Kenny Clark flung himself forward at the ball , only to see his efforts strike the foot of the post , but Julio Berazi was on hand to stab home and collect his fourth goal of the season . |
| 16 | Whether he is sober enough to go back and fetch his dilapidated car , or should soldier on , is the question here , or at any rate part of it . |
| 17 | At less than arm 's length she could feel and smell his warm clean breath , mingled with masculine body odours , and she had to clench her stomach muscles against the small ripples of sensation . |
| 18 | And he looked liked really just ready to get up and do his lovely fresh face you know . |
| 19 | That 's the thing , the thing is like , and like er , he 's Billy 's been given a lot of scope though , erm , to just go out and do his own thing and he thinks like a , as a , I was speaking to like his er course tutor and it is erm Councillor and Katie was saying that Billy thinks that because he 's got , he 's got this , this wee job now that like , he 's er he 's the street cred you know , he 's cool . |
| 20 | If the video project is undertaken as a genuine self-evaluation exercise the tutor must see her role as helping the teacher to perceive and evaluate his own aims . |
| 21 | Tell her old man to go and stuff his bloody butcher 's shop up his Jacksey . |
| 22 | That puts more pressure on Jürgen Schrempp , Deutsche Aerospace 's tough boss , to expand and improve his civilian operations . |
| 23 | He urged me to come and see his new place in Brighton . |
| 24 | As TV lights shone on his bemused face , he invited the crowd to come and see his new movie ‘ Witness ’ . |
| 25 | Your Dad 'll want to pop down and see his blessed allotment before we go to bed anyway . |
| 26 | Vincent asked his cousin to call and see his latest work , and Mauve shook his head , his face bitter . |
| 27 | Priestley campaigned with pen and from the pulpit for the right of a man to declare and defend his religious principles . |
| 28 | Harrison kept intent on the gentleman but still he noted the two boats on the lake — one had caught what must be a pike from the struggle — heard the chiming axes of the woodmen , noted the flocks on the Scale Force bank of Crummock and , more particularly , a pair of swallows playing beside the water — these and a score of other impressions gave him a richness of context denied Hope who , after struggling with his pipe , battled on , oblivious of all that was about him , to confirm and exercise his new and gloriously liberated Christianity . |
| 29 | It was 21-year-old Jamie Moralee who stole the ball from Kevin Scott to run on and score his seventh League goal in 11 games . |
| 30 | He can usually continue to work and meet his everyday obligations and may seem normal to acquaintances . |