Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] to his [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spending time with McIllvanney was not my idea of relaxation , and I did n't much take to his lack of enthusiasm . |
| 2 | Luke 's age would only add to his glamour . |
| 3 | The individual bureaucrat can not transmit to his heirs his rights in the exploitation of the state apparatus ’ ( Trotsky 1936 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | Gwendolen sitting next to him did not object to his silence . |
| 8 | She would not yield to his curiosity . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He possessed the true explorer 's curiosity but did not bring to his journeys his own creative touch . |
| 11 | It is significant , for example , that Nizan does not refer to his literature as " socialist realist " , but rather as " revolutionary " . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Next morning he seemed to remember nothing of the night 's experiences , and Tess did not refer to his sleepwalking . |
| 14 | He had a written employment contract , but it did not refer to his place of work . |
| 15 | Cain the ‘ word-man ’ can no longer speak to his father . |
| 16 | This snappily dressed , half-smiling man with something of the looks of the young Cary Grant about him did not approximate to his vision of a psychiatrist . |
| 17 | When he did not return to his hotel in the evening , Captain Trevor , a local man , bravely organized a search party . |
| 18 | The interesting thing is that while Applegarth did not return to his trade , or to the union movement , he retained his political radicalism to the end of his days : for another fifty years . |
| 19 | There was little time left before his meeting with Merymose , so he did not return to his house , but took a circuitous route which would bring him to their rendezvous at the moment the sun touched the top of the western cliffs . |
| 20 | Others must selflessly administer to his needs . |
| 21 | To his disgust he found that the workers would no longer respond to his call for mass meetings during working hours . |
| 22 | But his adaptability did not apply to his tenets , merely to his instinct for self-preservation . |
| 23 | In the beginning , a team of French builders was hired , but when they did not respond to his treatment of them as an army detachment , he fired them and barked orders at Anthony instead . |
| 24 | It was to be the stumbling block ; for if the Emperor abandoned the Clauses he would antagonize Britain , while so long as they remained , Russia would not respond to his requests for an alliance . |
| 25 | When Richard did not respond to his greeting except by frowning and then turning away , Hugh remained undismayed . |
| 26 | We were sad because he could not come to my room and I could not go to his home , where it would have been difficult to explain our relationship . |
| 27 | But I did not go to his church . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's not true , ’ Davide began , but words would not come to his help . |
| 29 | A plaintiff has only four calendar months ( six if leave to serve out of the jurisdiction is required under RSC Ord 11 ) , in which to serve the writ and if he does not serve it within that period the fact that the last day is a Sunday , when it can not be served , does not come to his aid . |
| 30 | It did not come to his mind to murder any of them ; it was not his way , or the way he had been raised , to take life in cold blood , without a formal challenge or warning , without the necessary ritual preparation for combat and maybe death . |