Example sentences of "and his [noun] [to-vb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had a cottage in the Cotswolds waiting for him and his wife to move in . |
| 2 | However , he may not be that popular in England after his ungracious comments before and after the World Cup final and his decision to drop out of the Barbarians game — not to mention the ‘ try that never was ’ against England in the 1987 World Cup . |
| 3 | To the accompaniment of one of Alan Dell 's Big Band programmes Patrick told Peter Jennings about the murder and the theft of the letters , the switched bodies and his decision to come out to Romania and try to pick up the scent of John and Angela Bonnard . |
| 4 | So far , driver Sam Webster was pleased with his young mate 's performance and had noted with approval how he used his firing shovel to spread the coal systematically round the firebox and his ability to fire up through the firehole door trap without having to open the door . |
| 5 | Every diplomatic effort was made to get him and his army to retire back over the frontier , but without success . |
| 6 | Congressmen and senators did not like being bombarded with an estimated eighty legislative proposals in Carter 's first year and were unim-pressed by his resistance to compromise , his aversion to bargaining and his threats to go over their heads directly to the people . |
| 7 | Finally , when the walls of Amal 's room began to vibrate from the sounds of the bass from the stereo , she decided to go downstairs to ask her brother and his friends to turn down their music . |
| 8 | Gowie is given every opportunity by his teacher and his classmates to join in with the others and make a useful contribution to the school ; but every gesture of friendship he rejects . |
| 9 | A BAF spokesman , Tony Ward , said : ‘ We will have to talk to Livingston and his advisers to find out whether they are still going to go ahead with the appeal . ’ |
| 10 | Landor 's want of training and his impatience to press on with all speed made him an unreliable surveyor , and there were those who impugned the veracity of his hair-raising escapes ; but in energy and resourcefulness , in courage and power of endurance , he was the equal of any of the previous generation of great explorers . |
| 11 | But he then stressed his commitment to making a ‘ success ’ of our EC membership and his desire to get back into the ERM . |
| 12 | But Mr Kohl 's lack of forthrightness in acting against racist attacks and his reluctance to take up the cause of their victims suggests a chancellor , if not a country , who has yet to come fully to terms with the past . |
| 13 | His only possibility is to tap the latent anger , which he has to keep suppressed for the most part , and the social depression that would enable him and his peers to speak out from their own consciousness in order that a mature and civilized level of relationship can be attained between them and others . |
| 14 | I 'm sure you did n't order Lee and his men to find out where I 'd been and who I had seen . |
| 15 | I invite er Mr and his supporters to get out of the age of Dickens and into the twentieth century . |
| 16 | In the negotiations in which the King now attempted to play off Parliament , Army and Scots against each other , he acted with a degree of duplicity which might have been justified by success ; it was disastrous , however , when his intercepted correspondence revealed the irreconcilable offers which he had made and his intention to go back on his agreements . |
| 17 | I put forward the idea to Mme Bluot that , rather than sit either side of a table , reminding Didier of school and his failure to keep up , he and I would do better to talk down by the river , in the park , even in the Café du Coin . |
| 18 | Torn between his longing to be home again , and his ambition to bring back enough money to have made the trip worthwhile , he considered extending his tour to places which had formerly welcomed him , but , in the end , his homesickness proved too much for him , and he left Frankfurt the day after his concert . |