Example sentences of "[vb infin] to his [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He called his great-uncle by his christian name with no prefix and did not jump to his feet when the old man entered the room . |
| 2 | Falconer would have had to be standing on the very rim to slip and fall to his death . |
| 3 | ‘ I must go , ’ she whispered , avoiding the soldier 's eyes , watching his hands fall to his sides instead . |
| 4 | She let him stumble and fall to his knees . |
| 5 | The combination of prophetic denunciation and broad generalization did not appeal to his contemporaries ; as one of his colleagues in the Chandos Group ( where Eliot had been discussing the matters contained in his book ) wrote later , " It is understandable that The Idea of a Christian Society should make little appeal to the large majority of the intelligentsia . |
| 6 | This would appeal to his sense of order , even if he should lose out financially . |
| 7 | Both Mr. Workman and Miss Davies deposed to the fact that Mr. Whitehead , Mr. Bell 's solicitor , accepted that the matter could properly be adjourned until Monday , 19 February and that Mr. Whitehead did not object to his client being remanded in custody until that date . |
| 8 | Gwendolen sitting next to him did not object to his silence . |
| 9 | She would not yield to his curiosity . |
| 10 | ‘ Have you been resting ? ’ he asked , his voice holding only the cool politeness a host would show to his guest . |
| 11 | It was not that each child was continually talking but every now and then a child would speak to his neighbour or another would leave his place quietly and walk over to another child to speak with him . |
| 12 | Then he did n't speak to his wife again for eight days . |
| 13 | Often , it is as we become aware of the presence of God that he will speak to his people . |
| 14 | Cain the ‘ word-man ’ can no longer speak to his father . |
| 15 | The horse will continually overreact to his handler and everything around him ; and he will be nervy , difficult , and ‘ jumpy ’ much of the time . |
| 16 | So to Pešek 's Taras Bulba — and more than anything on the disc , this rhapsodic triptych really does warm to his touch . |
| 17 | Under the new covenant Yahweh makes himself present to his people as Spirit ( which seems to be the meaning of ‘ Now the Lord is the Spirit ’ 2 Cor 3:17 ) ; d such his presence IS constant , unwithdrawn and steady The divine presence , concentrated in Christ , and universalised through his death and resurrection , becomes available to transform his people . |
| 18 | He possessed the true explorer 's curiosity but did not bring to his journeys his own creative touch . |
| 19 | What credence can we give to his story of some malevolent person waiting in a window alcove ? |
| 20 | Next morning he seemed to remember nothing of the night 's experiences , and Tess did not refer to his sleepwalking . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The thing about Back is that you do n't refer to his stature when within ear-shot . |
| 23 | When asked what caused his melancholy he would refer to his dread of getting old . |
| 24 | It is significant , for example , that Nizan does not refer to his literature as " socialist realist " , but rather as " revolutionary " . |
| 25 | ‘ Did Matthew ever refer to his uncle 's relations with women ? ’ |
| 26 | He had a written employment contract , but it did not refer to his place of work . |
| 27 | " 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 . |
| 28 | At Deer Park , the affably polished superintendent , David Hicks , worries out loud what five years of more equal school finance could do to his budgets . |
| 29 | What a perplexing puzzler like Puzznic 'll do to his brain , then , is a mystery . |
| 30 | He was not the most welcoming of hosts , alarmed at the thought of what one thousand men and horses could do to his winter 's supplies and forage ; but at least he could tell them that a large mounted party had indeed passed this way two days previously and had turned off out of this main Yarrow valley southwards , to climb by Altrieve to the high pass of Tushielaw , which would take them to the Ettrick valley . |