Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The smart-money crowd is saying that the revised scoring — with every race counting for title points — is tailor-made for this French Ferrari driver , who now has a more-than-willing helper in Jean Alesi to look after the business of returning the Ferrari compliment to Senna and allowing Prost to go about his business unencumbered by Brazilians wishing to use his piece of road . |
| 2 | And as if that were not enough , the church bell is also , by ancient repute , therapeutic : place inside it if you can whatever part of your body is troubling you , get the bell ringer to go about his business and you will , with luck , be cured . |
| 3 | Magwitch was taken to prison to wait for his trial . |
| 4 | Never one to let a lack of cash stand in his way , Desmond persuaded the liquidator to agree to a long closing — i.e. to wait for his money until UPH had re-sold the site . |
| 5 | He did not have long to wait for his answer . |
| 6 | It seems that it is not clarification of definition , tell that to the woman who looked for two , thirteen years after a stroke husband and they had to wait for his death , that you did n't sell him a dread disease policy because there is not clarification of definition . |
| 7 | As the black chauffeur-driven Jaguar pulled up outside , Coy came into the reception area to wait for his guest . |
| 8 | Williams , who beat Trevor Currie on Tuesday night to add the European championship to his Commonwealth title , may have to wait for his shot at the British champion , though Mason rises to his former sparring partner 's rhetoric . |
| 9 | Williams , who beat Trevor Currie on Tuesday night to add the European championship to his Commonwealth title , may have to wait for his shot at the British champion , though Mason rises to his former sparring partner 's rhetoric . |
| 10 | I just have to wait for his letter , but I think the sensible thing to do would be to talk to you about what he 's putting you on because a lot of these drugs are not without potential side effects . |
| 11 | The glamorous nightdress I 'd bought to wear for his visit was still lying in my locker and , instead , I was wearing a shabby old hospital gown . |
| 12 | This man is learning slowly how deeply the experience of God 's forgiveness has to penetrate through his whole being . |
| 13 | Is he , is he going to go for his black ? |
| 14 | Of the 30 patients randomised to NIPPV , 4 did not receive it : 2 because they were confused and could not cooperate , 1 because he was unable to breathe through his nose , and 1 because he requested the withdrawal of all active treatment . |
| 15 | Nevertheless it seems to me that Gironella is right , or that he is right in so far as he is using ‘ mestizo ’ to claim for his work a Mexican , not a European identity . |
| 16 | And , if so , why did you not send Seton back to search for his master or send members of your own household to look for him ? ’ |
| 17 | I ca n't imagine he has ever had to search for his mother , or had narcolepsy , or become a hustler , yet he does all three so brilliantly in the film it breaks your heart . |
| 18 | From the clifftop he watched the small figure of Detective Furness in his red anorak on the saddle below , twisting from one side to another as he strained his eyes against the bright sunlight to search for his charge . |
| 19 | In 1976 Dave was supposed to be caddying for Fernandez at the French Open , but Vicente had broken his finger , so he was without a bag — until Manuel Ballesteros asked him if he would like to carry for his brother Seve . |
| 20 | The exporter who has to plan for his company 's future in a climate of uncertainty about exchange rates is like the man forced to build his house on sand . |
| 21 | The appointment by the incoming Labour government of the Macmillan Committee , of which Keynes was a member , gave him another chance to carry through his revolution in policy . |
| 22 | The first few times , the pup gets his food for free to demonstrate to him that people are nice , but after a few treats he has to sit for his stranger and for his supper . |
| 23 | The most genuinely modest personality it is my pleasure to know , George had to be bullied by a number of us to sit for his sculpture by Archie Forrest who could well be considered as adept with clay as he is with paint . |
| 24 | In 1910 he became partially paralysed , losing the use of his legs , but he continued to drive about his garden and woods . |
| 25 | It may be they know that I am meeting somebody they are trying to affect through his hierarchy ; or it may be they need to find out something which they think I am in a better position to find out than they are . |
| 26 | The joke was that it was sometime later that we learnt the whole affair had been staged by Basil who had been in earlier to go through his in-tray and deal with the important memos , etc . |
| 27 | ENGLAND new boy Les Ferdinand has Ray Wilkins 's nagging to thank for his call-up for the Turkey match later this month . |
| 28 | Payne also has Jack Nicklaus to thank for his breakthrough . |
| 29 | The envious man is obsessively drawn to see through his rival 's eyes , the cruel man is as sensitive to a sufferer 's feelings as the compassionate ; and both are disinterested , in that it does not matter to them whether any injury they do is of benefit to themselves . |
| 30 | Article 20 of the Brussels Convention provides that where a defendant domiciled in one Contracting State is sued in a court of another Contracting State the court shall stay the proceedings so long as it is not shown that the defendant has been able to receive the document instituting the proceedings or an equivalent document in sufficient time to enable him to arrange for his defence , or that all necessary steps have been taken to this end . |