Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [conj] [to-vb] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | The student may be able to stand back and to relativize his or her own learning . |
| 2 | Two of them ( the men , I mean ) became quite fond of John during the short time he was with them , and expressed much regret at his leaving , begging him to come again and to bring his gin , meaning his wife , with him . ’ |
| 3 | It is sad that he could not have been turned so as to face his favourite church . |
| 4 | For a few days the president agonized over whether to exercise his veto , but , in the end reluctantly signed what was now a Congressional rather than a presidential bill . |
| 5 | Thus , the protagonists ' encounter with a postman who is too drunk to articulate properly or to deliver his letters , which he keeps dropping in the street , is one of a series of symbolic episodes expressing the generalized breakdown of communication in a country that has lost all sense of social cohesion . |
| 6 | And he should have known better than to have his secretary type it . |
| 7 | He stood up and walked to the window of the cold , cold room , putting aside with contempt his lifelong habit of arranging to be seated so as to hide his size when he was about to say anything that interested him . |
| 8 | He looked from one to the other of their faces but knew better than to open his mouth . |
| 9 | Ex-Eton schoolboy Jonathan Barton was bullied but unlike Charles , he knew better than to take his complaint to the headmaster . |
| 10 | Before he finally lay down to rest and sleep he hesitated over whether to cross his small room again and close the window on the chilly night . |
| 11 | It would be possible and proper to provide aid for people who are especially disadvantaged by the changes — for example , the very small farmer in Portugal who wants to get out and to join his land to that of his neighbour . |
| 12 | But at the same time you will make it very beneficial for him to be more obedient , to ask nicely and to control his temper . |
| 13 | He declined to explain why or to give his name on the telephone . |