Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A straightforward man ( Ed O'Neill ) agrees to drive his girlfriend 's son home from boarding school for Thanksgiving . |
| 2 | Trevor goes to see his sister about once a month . |
| 3 | So he goes to see his mother who 's a nurse at the |
| 4 | The trick does not work , but at least it leads to the hiding of Colas in Lise 's bedroom and the awful discovery of the two of them together just as Alain has received the key and goes to claim his bride . |
| 5 | France 's Environment Minister , Brice Lalonde , has threatened to resign unless the government agrees to implement his plan for a new waste tax . |
| 6 | ‘ No , no , thanks , Drew , ’ he says as Andy goes to refill his dram too . |
| 7 | So Letterman has to burnish his act . |
| 8 | Between his back teeth , he has to wear his skin out , |
| 9 | Under the civil procedure of the High Court the court does not , in general , exercise any control over the manner in which a party obtains the evidence which he needs to support his case . |
| 10 | You guessed it , a maniacal madman wants to continue his game of ‘ nuke everything ’ and wo n't be happy 'till he 's succeeded . |
| 11 | The matter will therefore drag on for another month until the next management committee meeting , while Ferguson has to continue his return to the first team under awkward circumstances . |
| 12 | AN ELDERLY man claimed yesterday he has to risk his life to cross a busy Darlington road because of illegally parked cars . |
| 13 | He wants to kill his uncle , but he ca n't . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , my dear , I do n't think you can find anything sinister in the fact that a man wants to see his child bathed at night . |
| 15 | ‘ My young son the King wants to see his mother . |
| 16 | ‘ But he says he never wants to see his father . |
| 17 | The allegory peaks in the scene where Mason meets a mad artist who wants to paint his portrait because he has ‘ the eyes of a dying man ’ . |
| 18 | So let's say this client has got his thirty pounds a month Covermaster , er , and he 's decided that he wants to invest his Covermaster in a Japan fund . |
| 19 | Leeds were being linked last night with a £1 m bid for Manchester City defender Ian Brightwell , but Wilkinson also needs to bolster his mis-firing attack . |
| 20 | Agnew , however , is not certain that he wants to uproot his family — even if it gives him a chance to resurrect his career . |
| 21 | If he wants to get another club , he has to pull his finger out . |
| 22 | and he wants to increase his employee , his , his value added by increasing the number of employees . |
| 23 | The child care lawyer needs to know his way around the Children Act . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , the study we propose will give a good foundation for exploration , and is certainly the most essential and important investigation of all for the young composer who wants to find his way ahead . |
| 25 | It is symptomatic of this subtle shift that at the end of The Sycamore Tree the Catholic dies , whereas the novelist lives to rewrite his text . |
| 26 | He just has to set his chin and take it if ‘ we 've ’ used the wrong club . ’ |
| 27 | No food producer who actually wants to sell his product is going to be daft enough to admit on the label that the meat contained therein predates the Gulf War , Princess Beatrice and the fall of the Berlin Wall . |
| 28 | ‘ He is a very great artist , ’ he told Lunia Czechowska , ‘ it is disgraceful that he has to sell his work on the café terraces . ’ |
| 29 | Jones , married with an 18 month-old daughter , was adamant last night that he wants to regain his Test spot , but admitted he felt trapped financially . |
| 30 | He has to stick his head up and go where the fuck has it gone ? |