Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] [prep] his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor would he accept that he should work out the sum due by looking at the cost of providing a type of car which Mr Shove ‘ might reasonably be expected to acquire in his present circumstances ’ . |
| 2 | ZERO SITS ON A swivel office chair and clicks on his Quadra 900 Macintosh PC with 240 megabytes of memory and a keyboard which he has remodelled to conform to his own idea of how a keyboard ‘ should have been laid out in the first place ’ . |
| 3 | A highly sophisticated and well-read composer such as Britten could be expected to look for his own Hofmannsthal . |
| 4 | Parts lists including description reference numbers and sometimes drawings are necessary if the user is expected to deal with his own replacements . |
| 5 | And if the stranger had come to ask for his two pounds back , my sister would gladly have given it to him . |
| 6 | Thus the tenant will not be permitted to rely on his own breach of his repairing obligations in order to depress the rent payable on review ( Harmsworth Pension Funds Trustees v Charringtons Industrial Holdings ( 1985 ) 49 P&CR 297 ) , and a surety who had guaranteed the obligations of a tenant was not allowed to rely on the tenant 's failure to register an assignment with the landlord in order to escape liability under his surety covenant ( Cerium Investments v Evans ( 1991 ) 62 P&CR 203 ) . |
| 7 | Whitlock had to be reminded to clip on his compulsory dosemeter badge . |
| 8 | Port Essington , the most remote , dangerous , and perhaps most promising , hunting ground left on his itinerary , and which Gould himself had intended to explore before his triumphant visit to Namoi , was designated to his capable assistant Gilbert , who was staying an extra year in Australia . |
| 9 | ( FCA ) of having been found to be in breach of Bye-law 76(a) and liable to disciplinary action under Bye-law 76(a) ( i ) in that he in London between 31 July 1985 and 28 February 1990 audited the accounts of a limited company , a company in which his wife was a shareholder and at various times an office holder , resulting in him not being free of any interest which might detract or be seen to detract from his professional independence and integrity was reprimanded and ordered to pay £600 by way of costs . |
| 10 | He is said to come into his own behind closed doors when giving Prime Ministers advice they do not want to hear — in the politest possible way . |
| 11 | AI believes that he is being made to answer for his active involvement in the Sudan Doctors ' Union and left-wing politics , his role in the non-violent protests which led to the overthrow of President Nimeiri in April 1985 and his outspoken criticism of the current government . |
| 12 | Similarly , Richard , Olivier 's son by his third and last wife , Joan Plowright , has decided to talk about his unusual relationship with his father and his own involvement with the Men 's Movement , which uses dance , drumming and storytelling to try to compensate for absent fathers . |
| 13 | He chewed coriander seeds to sweeten his breath and , feeling ready to face the world , had decided to put on his newest , cleanest kilt , with the leather sandals and the one headdress left from more prosperous days . |
| 14 | Prior Robert might not have been very greatly grieved if Tutilo had been made to pay for his outrageous offence with his skin , but Prior Robert had been at dinner with the abbot and several other witnesses that night , and in any case could hardly be imagined as lurking in wet woods to strike down the delinquent with his own elegant hands . |
| 15 | That 's why I 'm so keen , I shall I tell you what my plan is , at the moment but as soon as the the uncourteous Bill has decided to move into his new house new flat , rather , I am going to take my ensuite back |
| 16 | That Bukharin argued for balanced and proportional growth can be seen to arise from his earlier work on equilibrium theory and in his formulating an algebraic approach to the problems of analysis posed by Marx 's reproduction schemas . |
| 17 | Nellie 's last few words stayed in Fred 's mind and later , in the comfort of the cosy front room above the dining rooms , after Maisie had left , he was moved to speak to his young wife about what her mother had said to him . |
| 18 | Mr Gillman had had to attend to his own patients . |
| 19 | Why had she agreed to come to his awful party ? |
| 20 | He had been twenty-one when he died of leukaemia , and I had had to help with his last offices and was then sent to escort his body to the mortuary . |
| 21 | The landlord insisted Mr Brady had agreed to leave of his own free will , and he was not assaulted . |
| 22 | Since then he 's had to live through his first wife being run over and his second screen love , unconvincing animal righter and hippie chick Kerry Bishop , being shot dead by illegal duck hunters . |
| 23 | Like Tuathal , Eochaid had been in the saddle all autumn , mostly at the King 's side , until he had had to return to his own Scone to prepare for this Christmas . |
| 24 | My perfect house , the one I am condemned to search for just as the womaniser in 10 is condemned to search for his impossible mate , could only have existed in some fiction I had read — or in a past life . |
| 25 | Mr Watson worked as a lead miner and was inspired to write by his upper Teesdale surroundings . |
| 26 | He was bound to provide at his own cost one riding forester and two walking foresters to keep his bailiwick , and to perform the military service of ‘ going in the army at the King 's cost wherever the King goes ’ . |
| 27 | He was scheduled to compete in his 100th , and last , Grand Prix at Watkins Glen but he pulled out of the race in respect for his team-mate Francois Cevert who was killed in practice . |
| 28 | Sunderland wanted £4,000 and their manager , Bob Kyle , said it would be worth it for the twenty goals Buchan was bound to score in his first season at Highbury . |
| 29 | In essence , this is the strategy we shall adopt ( except that the reader will be invited to act as his own informant : we shall not be concerned with problems and methods of field investigation ) . |
| 30 | Galloway had now installed a motor mechanic there whom he had hired to look after his new motor vehicles . |