Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pron] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miller admitted : ‘ Barry has done a magnificent job and in the interests of the team we would want someone of his calibre back in charge as soon as possible . ’ |
| 2 | Miller admitted : ‘ Barry has done a magnificent job and in the interests of the team we would want someone of his calibre back in charge as soon as possible . ’ |
| 3 | Could you direct me to his rooms ? ’ she asked . |
| 4 | But he had already said something similar to Burun , and did not know which of his words had been repeated verbatim . |
| 5 | Well the first time when he found it could comb is hair straight back with his right hand ; he could dry himself under his arms properly instead of just sort of wiping at it with a towel ; wash his teeth better , instead of using his left hand with difficulty because he 's never been really left handed . |
| 6 | Mum Julie , 31 , who will go with him , said : ‘ I always said he 'd win something with his trainers , but I did n't think it would be a trip to America . ’ |
| 7 | One or two of his colleagues may know something of his patch if they have covered for him when he was unavailable , or if they have previously worked it before being transferred elsewhere . |
| 8 | Even I did not recognise him from his actions . ’ |
| 9 | Since first meeting him I learned to admire and respect him for his sincerity , humanity , integrity and his delightful sense of humour . |
| 10 | President Yeltsin was also facing trouble from Russia 's supreme legislature , which was reported to be tabling a motion that would strip him of his emergency powers . |
| 11 | It had hurt him , Groa knew , that his father did not need him at his side now , in the first hour of real danger since Rognvald had tried to claim the north seven years before . |
| 12 | Obviously Miles did not trust her with his camera or there might have been a matching sequence of ‘ Miles in front of a shop … |
| 13 | What most terrified Bernier was the notion that his long stay in India would rob him of his cultivated Parisian sensibilities . |
| 14 | If er something comes in , they can attack him on his back do you see . |
| 15 | Richard Needham , it was said , is only interested in appearing to develop the area in so far as it would assist him in his fight against ‘ terrorism ’ . |
| 16 | I pay tribute to the work done by my hon. Friend the Member for Pontefract and Castleford ( Mr. Lofthouse ) in the area and promise that I will assist him in his fight . |
| 17 | Edgar thanked the Danes for their support and allowed them to live under such laws as they might choose , and it must be significant that Swegen landed in Lincolnshire when he made his bid for the kingship in 1013 , and that in 1066 King Harald of Norway made for York , where he had hopes that the citizens would assist him in his endeavours . |
| 18 | I think he 's Scottish by extraction , though you 'd hardly know it from his accent . |
| 19 | Should one of the fry slip from the nest the male will catch it in his mouth and spit it back into the nest . |
| 20 | You are then obliged to play a Spade from the dummy and East will win it with his 10 and cash his winning Club for the setting trick . |
| 21 | Politely he asked him to leave a quote so he could discuss it with his wife . |
| 22 | Best then to let him purge it from his blood while he is Prince , neh ? |
| 23 | Sam McAughtry , who first took his seat on this stage back in 1985 , will delight us with his humorous and heartwarming tales of life in the Tiger 's Bay district of North Belfast , while the best-selling author of ‘ To School Through the Fields ’ Alice Taylor , comes to us from County Cork with stories of life as a youngster on an isolated farm in that county in the '40s . |
| 24 | Oh , you would n't know anything about his thumping the table . |
| 25 | that is , it 's just that Mr who really did n't know anything from his and needle and thread was stirring the shit ! |
| 26 | It was Sally 's dying wish that he should throw himself into his role as country copper Inspector Reg Wexford — and that he has done with a vengeance . |
| 27 | He knew he deserved nothing and so he decided to go home and throw himself on his father 's mercy . |
| 28 | We 're not supposed to help each other in a business way , are we ? ’ — he pulled a face at her — ‘ But I know he would welcome me into his band . |
| 29 | It 's up to the owner to decide which way round to have the post and rails , although he must erect them on his side of the boundary . |
| 30 | Chuck Sherman , who had noticed the excited gleam in his young brother 's eyes , grinned and punched him affectionately on the arm as he took the binoculars , but before he could lift them to his eyes a tumult of shouting and screaming broke out suddenly among the throng of Chinese pressing up against the iron grille below them . |