Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] his [noun] [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 | ROBBIE Earle deepened Liverpool 's misery with a brilliant display that can only enhance his England chances . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Liberal Lothario Paddy Ashdown can only hope his poll share keeps growing . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He would not make his judgement blind , |
| 8 | He did not make his pile opening bazaars you feel sure . |
| 9 | Anselm supported Henry , and he did not make his support conditional on Henry 's acceptance of the new papal decrees . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | As Simon did not answer his question Hugh lay watching the sunlight on the water through the open door . |
| 12 | That some would come with very bad intentions proved the truth and a person under the assumed character of a man of rank deceived and married the unsuspecting Sally but he did not survive his villanies villanies . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I told him I did not know his friend Bill and the breakfast was for a man who was staying at the inn . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | This did not prevent his offering Baldwin the Exchequer before he had kissed hands . |
| 18 | Philip will not base his television show on Paul Daniels , whom he dislikes for intimidating members of the audience chosen for tricks . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | We had trouble attracting money from peopleBarry Lloyd thinks people did not understand his health problems . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Johnson reports this and other gory tales , tongue-in-cheek so firmly you can scarcely see his jaw bulge . |
| 24 | He does not spend his welfare money on his family as he should do , instead he spends it on drink for himself . |
| 25 | Mr Reenan , a former TSB branch boss in Abingdon , said he had been sent hate mail and would probably not use his £900 scanner again . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | At this time of year he would normally move his hives north to the Derbyshire peak district , to take advantage of the flowering heather . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | For he will not miss his evening class or his choir practice for a woman . |
| 30 | 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 . |