Example sentences of "[coord] [to-vb] [prep] his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To have heard Rachmaninov play hisown or any other Russian music or to listen to his orchestral works is to realise he was a passionate musician , loving his art and giving his all to express the joys and sorrows , the tender and brutal moods and all the emotions to which man is subject . |
| 2 | Certainly man desires peace in his inner conscience and to cope with his outward circumstances , but what is true peace ? |
| 3 | The Bible becomes his bastion against moral powerlessness , too , by reminding him constantly of the divine power that is available to overcome his weakness ( for " God is at work in you , both to will and to work for his good pleasure " ) . |
| 4 | When I am so self-centred that I would not dream of asking the Spirit for his strength , preferring to go my own way , I am encouraged to recall that ‘ God is at work in you both to will and to work for his good pleasure ’ ( Phil . |
| 5 | He had no idea that Finch was trying to get him to stop being an accompanist and to work on his own . |
| 6 | His reaction to his new situation was perhaps predictable — he decided to travel again , both for interest and to reflect on his own future . |
| 7 | He could not wait to see it all back safely in England and to start on his next publication . |
| 8 | And John meantime seeks always to dismiss me as incompetent and neurotic ( probably , as people wiser than me , such as his own lawyer , say , he does this to suit his own ends and to give himself a good press and to live within his own fantasies and eccentricities . ) |
| 9 | whose other duties included those of town crier and bill sticker , took him around the town for company and to assist with his bill-posting operations . |
| 10 | Nobody but himself knew what it had cost him to start riding with Nutty as a teacher , and to get to his present standard on the crazy little mare when he had been terrified out of his wits at the things she did . |