Example sentences of "he [vb mod] [verb] to his " in BNC.
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| 1 | A fellow publisher , Edward Marston , wrote : ‘ In business he was clear-headed , prompt , and decisive , and all who knew him would testify to his absolute straightforwardness and integrity . |
| 2 | Tait intends to remain at his Berkshire base until the 1994 World Championships , after which he may return to his native New Zealand . |
| 3 | His father then asked William what he should say to his school-fellows , to which the boy replied , ‘ Tell them to prepare to meet their God ; and tell them I said so ’ ’ |
| 4 | He should come to his senses . |
| 5 | She would tell her twin about Berenice 's baby , and if she knew her sister , she would make Garry see he must return to his wife . |
| 6 | Howard thinks to himself that he must write to his children tonight and tell them that he has seen his first angels . |
| 7 | You know him , you know he 'll hold to his bond . ’ |
| 8 | The rents seem low , but when one considers that Mayhew 's seller of songs with a dependent wife earned less than 10s. a week and sometimes less than 5s. , it is easy to see why he might cling to his far from model room , where he has his own ‘ bits and sticks ’ , even at an exorbitant rent of 2s. 3d . |
| 9 | Alix wished to ask , of one particularly baby-faced , prematurely anxious candidate , who was contemplating the allowance that he might leave to his wife should he predecease her : but did not dare . |
| 10 | Whatever shamefaced and boyish confessions he might make to his patients , he controlled his smoking , rationing himself to between ten and fifteen a day . |
| 11 | Hills 's lease at Manton also terminates at the end of next year , and he could return to his original yard in Lambourn which he still owns and where his son John trains . |
| 12 | No doubt he wanted his task over with , so he could return to his companions and his ale-cup in the soldiers ' quarters . |
| 13 | LUXURY TOUCH : Mr Mellor instructed electricians to carry out more than £1,500 of extra re-wiring so he could listen to his beloved Elgar on compact disc in the breakfast room . |
| 14 | He could see to his left wing in the distance more open country , but his sense of north was strong and his instinct to follow it stronger . |
| 15 | Jimmy saw him coming through blurred vision and wished that he could get to his feet , but he could n't move . |
| 16 | He had the difficult task of taking the field around and beyond the covert and getting them to stand well back before he could attend to his hounds . |
| 17 | he 'd return to his white cradle |
| 18 | And then he 'd lock the doors to the reception block , and he 'd retire to his back room and make himself as small as a child on his bunk in the corner . |
| 19 | If he did n't get away now , he 'd only be waylaid by the others , there 'd be more whiskies , and it would be all hours before he 'd get to his lodgings and the letter from Elizabeth . |
| 20 | He used to listen to his music all the time when he was not at college , so the opportunity to do something like this was like a homage to Hendrix , a thank you for letting him discover music . ’ |
| 21 | Here too he started to write hymns which he would sing to his own accompaniment on a lute . |
| 22 | One man on his own could not hope to escape the pull of the marsh ; without help he would sink to his death . |
| 23 | Tonight she had said nothing , so Frankie almost believed himself safe , yet he lived with the constant fear that one night she would make a horrible mistake and he would walk to his death in the inky shadows upstairs . |
| 24 | When asked what caused his melancholy he would refer to his dread of getting old . |
| 25 | He would go to his evening reading in his most respectable suit and brazen it out . |
| 26 | Then he would go to his study and attend to his own writing , characteristically composing straight onto the typewriter and standing at a kind of lectern . |
| 27 | Tomorrow he would return to his duties inside the prison — with mixed feelings . |
| 28 | During the official opening ceremony one van driver who arrived at 10.35am was turned away by police and vowed angrily he would return to his warehouse for instructions . |
| 29 | Mr Shamir said he would stick to his promise not to make concessions to the Palestinians over the occupied territories . |
| 30 | He would insist to his dying day that an arctic wolf had savaged him . |