Example sentences of "his [noun] [adv] [to-vb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He screwed his neck around to try and find the enemy . |
| 2 | If , as everyone now insists , Noah had made up his mind not to continue as Davis Cup captain well before the match against Switzerland , then the decision can not have had anything to do with his obvious annoyance that , in his eyes , neither Henri Leconte or Guy Forget had properly prepared for the tie . |
| 3 | Garland was shaken and he was still making up his mind how to react when the doorbell rang . |
| 4 | Oliver , observing the scene with the same keen interest as had she , munched his way through a Dickensian gingerbread cake , his emotions harder to determine than those of his companion . |
| 5 | Amnesty International considers Jampa Ngodrup to be a prisoner of conscience , detained and sentenced solely for the peaceful exercise of his right freely to receive and impart information . |
| 6 | He poked his nose outside to see if he could tie off the cord . |
| 7 | Although an order of substituted service may be made in committal proceedings , the judge may decide to exercise his discretion not to commit until personal service has been effected . |
| 8 | He referred to the Unemployed Electrician , but it was his habit never to concede that anyone in the team had a personal name . |
| 9 | All in all it made for an uncomfortable meal , despite the chef 's first-class skills , and Sarella at least was pleased when it was all over and Marc , with deliberately precise timing , pushed his chair back to signal that they could now follow him out . |
| 10 | Mr Whittaker warns his men not to assume that the black who answers the door of a heavily guarded fortress is the maid . |
| 11 | Went round and put his hand in to see if it was dry . |
| 12 | STRICKEN Olympic skating star John Curry broke his silence yesterday to admit that he is dying from AIDS . |
| 13 | Shots were fired in Miyazawa 's party office on Feb. 11 , after an armed man forced his way in to demand that the government should resign over its corruption record , and that the pre-war system of emperor worship should be reinstated . |