Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] [pron] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should think of you for his finger . |
| 2 | He was aware of how professional he must appear to her in his preparations for what she saw as killing and which he had been trained to see as protection of the innocent . |
| 3 | Unlike the infant Stephen in Joyce 's Portrait , Titus does not appear to us through his own childish language , but through a " web of ritual " ( a phrase which occurs in the paragraph preceding our extract ) . |
| 4 | Nor did he refer to it in his address to new SS recruits at midnight on 9 November , and not a word relating to the pogrom was contained in his confidential speech — not meant for public consumption — to leaders of the German press on the evening of 10 November , less than twenty-four hours after the burning of the synagogues and the destruction of Jewish property throughout the length and breadth of Germany . |
| 5 | He had dark glasses on , but I could just see through them to his closed eyes . |
| 6 | Get angry about this bully , this cheap punk , this yob who reckons that you are a soft option ; this hooligan who scouts the streets for weaker victims , who wants to beat you senseless so that he can brag about it to his beer-swilling pals in the local pub . |
| 7 | Did you ever remember with him with his ha , with his hair extensions ? |
| 8 | As Bacci emerged through the blue fog that had collected near the door it occurred to the Captain that if Fusarri had been the normal sort of Substitute he would have had to go and report to him at his office , leaving his own smoke-free . |
| 9 | His absence meant that Miriam could stay with him in his flat until Durkin returned . |
| 10 | He said they must meet later , she must come and eat with him in his room and he would get a bottle of wine . |
| 11 | Only once in this period did he sleep with someone of his age , and on this occasion he chose someone who looked almost exactly like himself . |
| 12 | God did not depend upon us for his creation ; indeed , I have heard it expressed rather forcefully that humankind is not one of God 's better experiments ! |
| 13 | Well I suppose yeah cos they could set on him on his own |
| 14 | If I die for it , if David must die for it in his turn , no matter , so the spring survive and the unity grow . |
| 15 | ‘ T was the only story he 'd have from me at his bedtime , before he was grown … |
| 16 | A lay assistant wrote that the Archbishop of Canterbury would attend to it on his return to London from Canterbury , but no further communication ever arrived . |
| 17 | He did n't half go into him with his stick . |
| 18 | He would write in it underneath his sheets in bed before going to sleep . |
| 19 | Then I said that most of the money would come to me after his death , anyway — I mean , that 's what he told me when the will was read — and it would be too late then . |
| 20 | But I can write to him in his capacity as Robert Atkins ' Parliamentary Private Secretary . |
| 21 | They could also get at him through his wife and children , as the threatening phone calls had made plain . |
| 22 | I hated the way Arthur Seaton just does n't care about anything outside his own little life . |
| 23 | She could just see Roman 's car and she was blinded by a rush of tears as she realised she would never again sit in it by his side . |
| 24 | I did not regard Harold Wilson as a wit , nor was his conversation particularly spiced with humour , but it was immensely interesting because he would talk to me about his problems and their supposed solutions , and seemingly consult me on the matter — he was a very polite man — although I was conscious that on most political issues my own opinion was pretty well valueless and he recognised that . |
| 25 | He does n't talk to us about his problems — he scarcely talks at all . |
| 26 | And he would sing to himself in his house or in his boat the song which his father had taught him many years ago . |
| 27 | Not for the first time he wished he believed in something as much as Gurder did so he could complain to it about his life . |