Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] terms [prep] his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of the book the two ‘ heroes ’ are dead but Bentley , who has been obliged to watch the hanging of Jesse Broad on the day of his fifteenth birthday , is left to come to terms with his life and his position . |
| 2 | Debbie 's tycoon father Paul Raymond , 67 , is trying to come to terms with his daughter 's death . |
| 3 | It will take Iain a long time to come to terms with his conviction . |
| 4 | ‘ With Francis out of the way Beryl will have to come to terms with his heir and to the best of my belief Francis never made a will . |
| 5 | And then , since her father 's fatal heart attack eighteen months ago , no sooner had she slowly started to come to terms with his loss , to face the grief and despair at the thought of never seeing him again , than her mother 's letters and telephone calls had begun to fill her with stunned horror . |
| 6 | All he wanted , all he hoped for now was to be left alone to come to terms with his plight . |
| 7 | He fell silent , brooding , trying to come to terms with his fear . |
| 8 | But the treatment usually consists in trying to help the alienated patient to come to terms with his situation , which means accepting his position in society and the norms of conduct he finds so disturbing . |
| 9 | Alone on a holiday and trying to come to terms with his grief , he reflects that ‘ the most cruel pain of all occurred at such moments , when I tried to face the still unacceptable fact that I could never tell her anything again . |
| 10 | If we 're going to live in these fields , we 'll have to get on terms with his lot sooner or later , and it goes against the grain to hang about and admit we dare n't visit them . " |