Example sentences of "his [noun] [coord] [to-vb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He can appear in so doing to have his opinions and to eat them too . |
| 2 | ‘ He has had his time , made his money and to have him come back , well , people do n't know when to quit ’ |
| 3 | He may not be able to call upon the driver who took over the car to support his defence and to help him discharge the balance of probabilities in his favour , because that driver would not want to expose himself to the criminal charges of aggravated car theft . |
| 4 | There are lots of fluids out there , they are there for the embalmer to increase his expertise and to help him make his cases better , the chemical companies give technical support and do a lot of research into their products . |
| 5 | The implications for individual managers are that ‘ increasingly it will come to be seen as the individual 's responsibility to maintain , alter or boost his skills , to find the right market for his skills and to sell them to the appropriate buyer ’ . |
| 6 | He has lived in this pleasant suburb 45 years , entirely unaware that Kirk , Keef , Claptout and all of Led Zeppelin had been looking for him to apologise for stealing his songs and to pay him much-needed royalties . |
| 7 | He had done so four years before , and nothing had happened in the meantime either to abate his ambition or to make him less qualified — in the latter case very much the reverse . |
| 8 | The discourse analyst attempts to discover regularities in his data and to describe them . |
| 9 | Dudley also proved more willing to appoint ducal servants to offices in his gift and to employ them in his own administration . |
| 10 | Dudley also proved more willing to appoint ducal servants to offices in his gift and to employ them in his own administration . |
| 11 | Or is he to allow her to rest her left forearm on his right and to guide her round in an elegant mazurka — leading her , as it were , from the shoulder so that she always moves just in front of him ? |
| 12 | Is he to stand behind her , to take her right hand in his right and to lift it over her head while their clasped left hands stretch sideways before they move swiftly and diagonally into an allement ? |
| 13 | I did not want to add to his troubles or to lead him into more danger . |
| 14 | but I persuaded him that it would melt while he had his drink and to put it in my bag and er it was lunchtime when we got home and we were going some I , I ca n't remember what we were doing afterwards so I gave it to his mother , I thought she could share it . |
| 15 | Perhaps the Minister had had a row with his wife and to wound him she used my name . |
| 16 | A good number of fabliaux advise the husband simply to accept his inferiority to his wife and to allow her to continue to keep the passage of the world smooth ; at the end of Le Chevalier a la robe vermeille , " The Knight with the scarlet robe " , a husband who has surprised his wife and made the compromising discovery of her lover 's horse and robe is hoodwinked by her , and the tale concludes : ( But he who keeps to the right path should believe fully , without dispute , everything that his wife tells him . ) |
| 17 | And when God saw that the man was lonely He made a beautiful woman like mother to be his wife and to help him . |
| 18 | These documents were intended to set out clearly the basis on which services would be provided to a customer , to inform him of his rights and to give him the opportunity of allowing or prohibiting certain types of transactions such as off-exchange transactions , borrowings on his behalf and illiquid investments . |
| 19 | It was the custom for the Mayor and Aldermen to receive this money on his behalf and to pay him the amount annually . |
| 20 | But the defendant is left with a grievance and , in those circumstances , what I feel obliged to do is to accept the application that has been made on his behalf and to discharge you from returning a verdict in this case . ’ |
| 21 | In a Panorama documentary on Monday night , Tim 's father Colin will say : ‘ I wanted to look at the man , to hear his voice and to ask him directly about how he could be in league with an organisation like the IRA . |
| 22 | It has long been held that the writs of mandamus and prohibition will go either to compel the visitor to act if he refused to deal with a matter within his jurisdiction or to prohibit him from dealing with a matter that lies without his jurisdiction . |
| 23 | If the sender is traceable , probably the most sensible thing to do is to notify him that the goods are at his risk and to request him to fetch them ; and if ( as is likely with perishables ) the goods become a nuisance , the recipient would surely be justified in abating the nuisance by destroying them , even without notice to the sender , if the emergency were so pressing as to leave him no time to give it . |
| 24 | Unlike Alfonso , they chose to recognize his worth and to aid him in the war against the African Moors . |
| 25 | Whereas in his rise to power , Nicolae Ceauşescu had needed to make deals and alliances with other , equally ambitious , apparatchiks , once at the summit , he needed to dispose of them to preserve his position and to protect it from intrigue . |
| 26 | A competition was held , in which Haycock won the second premium ; and it was then decided to adopt his design but to put it ‘ into the hands ’ of Thomas Harrison of Chester [ q.v. ] , who made certain minor modifications to it . |
| 27 | Although he had made it a condition of his NBC appearance that his whereabouts not be disclosed , Neal Miller called next day to say that he had taken over as his handler and to reprimand him for doing the broadcast without permission . |
| 28 | He said that he took to writing novels to support himself and his family and to enable him to devote himself to his religious writings and poems . |