Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] his [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The finest views are from the bottom , and at some places a little above it , but few dare venture to the bottom particularly those females whose pedestrian excursions have chiefly been upon level ground ; nay the male sex are often appalled with a view of the way , and many a Bond-street gentleman , in his stable costume , would rather hazard his neck four-in-hand , than risk it by having his arms precariously supported by the twigs and branches he may find in his way to the gulph below . ’ |
| 2 | The government of the day will often let it be known to one of its aspiring party members that it would greatly welcome his ballot victory to promote a particular piece of legislation which it , the Government , does not wish to devote its own time to , either because of its controversial nature or simply because it has better things to do . |
| 3 | Liberal Lothario Paddy Ashdown can only hope his poll share keeps growing . |
| 4 | At the far end from the door was a hatch at waist height , the level at which a man will naturally hold his steel tray . |
| 5 | What is , however , essential is that Posidonius was very worried about the social turbulence of his time , even if it did not affect his home island , Rhodes , as seriously as the Greek mainland . |
| 6 | He would not make his judgement blind , |
| 7 | He did not make his pile opening bazaars you feel sure . |
| 8 | Anselm supported Henry , and he did not make his support conditional on Henry 's acceptance of the new papal decrees . |
| 9 | The idea being conveyed by such notions as the surrender of private judgment … is that in obeying , say , a command simply because it comes from someone accorded the right to rule , the subject does not make his obedience conditional on his own personal examination and evaluation of the thing he is being asked to do . |
| 10 | As Simon did not answer his question Hugh lay watching the sunlight on the water through the open door . |
| 11 | SINGER Stevie Wonder was jubilant yesterday after a San Francisco appeals court ruled he did not steal his hit song I Just Called To Say I Love You . |
| 12 | I told him I did not know his friend Bill and the breakfast was for a man who was staying at the inn . |
| 13 | For instance , a board member whose own firm is on the wrong side of a squeeze should not misuse his board position to try and break the squeeze . |
| 14 | He would like to think , he said , that his mind will not wander to the race at Aintree in the next few days , that he will not run it through his mind , that it will not permeate his waking life . |
| 15 | This did not prevent his offering Baldwin the Exchequer before he had kissed hands . |
| 16 | Philip will not base his television show on Paul Daniels , whom he dislikes for intimidating members of the audience chosen for tricks . |
| 17 | It also takes the Treasury to task over its intention to create a new offence which will be committed by any person acting in the course of any trade , business or profession who does not report his money laundering suspicions . |
| 18 | We had trouble attracting money from peopleBarry Lloyd thinks people did not understand his health problems . |
| 19 | He lost entitlement to free prescriptions ; he also had to pay £24 for dental treatment , and he can no longer claim his hospital fares unless they cost more than £8.50 . |
| 20 | Yet what brought Edward to heel temporarily at least — was a baronial threat that they might have to find another king if he would not keep his coronation oath , which in their minds meant observing the Ordinances . |
| 21 | Johnson reports this and other gory tales , tongue-in-cheek so firmly you can scarcely see his jaw bulge . |
| 22 | He does not spend his welfare money on his family as he should do , instead he spends it on drink for himself . |
| 23 | We may reasonably assume from Franco 's portly appearance throughout the " hungry years " that dolphin sandwiches and low-quality fish did not constitute his staple diet . |
| 24 | Even when the Senate 's own inquiry reported that his charges were ‘ a fraud and a hoax ’ it did not stop his rocket rise to influence . |
| 25 | For he will not miss his evening class or his choir practice for a woman . |
| 26 | A member who made less than 10 per cent of the average number of dealings in the year immediately preceding the general meeting may not exercise his voting right . |
| 27 | But in his tax speeches he is the earnest bank manager , unable to speak succinctly and dramatically , to grip people who do not have his bean-counter Treasury mind . |
| 28 | John did not have his brother Bobby 's ease on a platform but he had more integrity and honesty and he knew he had to do it . |
| 29 | But man is , in general , sexually dimorphic in ways which do not resemble his ape cousins . |
| 30 | As Australia 's forward coach , Evans did great work when he helped Alan Jones but the season before last he could not complete his coaching contract with the Gordon Club in Sydney because of his illness . |