Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [prep] his [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oddly enough , he never gave a thought to the child being born with such difficulty ; he could only think of his wife . |
| 2 | In the morality of Thomas Hobbes ( 1588–1679 ) and John Locke ( 1632–1704 ) and the later utilitarians he can only act in his self-interest . |
| 3 | The Biennale can only benefit from his involvement . |
| 4 | Since I did n't know Jackie in his racing years , I can only speak of his character as I 've known it since I975 , a period by which he had already become obsessed with driver safety and a real force in improving conditions for drivers . |
| 5 | But this was what he liked , the wide expanse of turbulent sea , browny-grey , white-laced under a limitless sky , windows which he could open so that , at a touch of his hand , the faint continuous boom like distant thunder would instantaneously pour into his office in a roar of crashing billows . |
| 6 | Abul Ismail now had better stuff for his plasters than cobblers ’ wax . |
| 7 | You can only see like his back his legs an and the back of running . |
| 8 | By the mid-1930s such ‘ option ’ arrangements were characteristic of private sector provision also ; it was for the male breadwinner alone to decide whether he would so provide for his dependants or take his full pension on retirement . |
| 9 | Jack Lang , Minister of Culture and Education — energetic and imaginative , say his admirers ; populist and trendy , say his detractors — will obviously campaign on his record , which even the said detractors and the opposition regard as impressive . |
| 10 | We know the facts of his life , but we can only guess at his hopes , his fears , his dreams . |
| 11 | Spending time with McIllvanney was not my idea of relaxation , and I did n't much take to his lack of enthusiasm . |
| 12 | It was the chance that she would see Alain , that he would suddenly come with his dark , sardonic smiles , his caustic comments and his unexpected kisses . |
| 13 | Accordingly , we should only interfere with his decision if we are satisfied that he applied an incorrect test , or was deprived of material which was necessary for the proper exercise of his discretion or was plainly wrong . |
| 14 | Luke 's age would only add to his glamour . |
| 15 | I do n't necessarily agree with his solutions , but his philosophical concerns are relentlessly modern : the problem of sexual love ; the problem of sexual relationships ; and all of it enfolded by the problems of industry and the environment . |
| 16 | Moreover , since all unproductive consumption is considered to be capitalist personal consumption , the question of the unproductive consumption of the state does not arise in his discussion at that point . |
| 17 | Gregory 's Pastoral Care said nothing about this aspect of a bishop 's work for the good reason that jurisdictions such as that claimed by Canterbury did not exist in his day . |
| 18 | It was the incident of the heat sink which made Yeremi pray that he should no longer stay in his place , but might somehow enforce … a different sort of order , however paltry his contribution might turn out to be . |
| 19 | The one hope is that Sir Patrick Mayhew will finally deliver on his promise to give the talks process ‘ direction and focus ’ , rather than act as an interested observer . |
| 20 | Being a sentence linguist , this was something he did not regard as his concern . |
| 21 | Because he was serious , and did not joke with his neighbours , people thought he was cold . |
| 22 | Once seated in Huy 's living room , Merymose relaxed , but only a little , and he could not remain in his chair long , but kept getting up and pacing the narrow space between the front door and the rear wall . |
| 23 | The individual bureaucrat can not transmit to his heirs his rights in the exploitation of the state apparatus ’ ( Trotsky 1936 ) . |
| 24 | Also to get the ball away quickly from the scrummage , the scrum-half can not convey to his opponents that the ball is out of the scrummage i.e. he can not dummy the ball . |
| 25 | Norster , however , would not deviate from his script . |
| 26 | The look she flicked him reminded him that this was one area where she would not appeal for his help ; she had been more than careful to protect him from any involvement with a drug-taking brother . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Gwendolen sitting next to him did not object to his silence . |
| 30 | Mr Sisulu 's generosity and warmth did not waver during his time in the maximum security prison of Robben Island , where other inmates deferred to him as a charismatic senior statesman of what has been called ‘ the government-in-exile ’ . |