Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 31 | Andrew Cunningham , who had been fortunate in having been one of the men brought up to the surface to erect a fence round the subsidence , volunteered to go back down into the unknown to search for his missing colleagues . |
| 32 | And , if so , why did you not send Seton back to search for his master or send members of your own household to look for him ? ’ |
| 33 | He leapt out of bed and began to search for his clothes . |
| 34 | This undiscriminating enthusiasm … prevented him from settling on a ‘ field ’ to cultivate as his own . |
| 35 | In 1976 Dave was supposed to be caddying for Fernandez at the French Open , but Vicente had broken his finger , so he was without a bag — until Manuel Ballesteros asked him if he would like to carry for his brother Seve . |
| 36 | The exporter who has to plan for his company 's future in a climate of uncertainty about exchange rates is like the man forced to build his house on sand . |
| 37 | The appointment by the incoming Labour government of the Macmillan Committee , of which Keynes was a member , gave him another chance to carry through his revolution in policy . |
| 38 | It was only because of fortuitous circumstances that Bunny Johnson was allowed to carry through his successful challenge in 1975 . |
| 39 | No minister can afford to fail to carry through his or her party 's pledges even if this means forcing local authorities to comply — by creating comprehensive schools or selling council houses . |
| 40 | On his final outing there was also a lot to like about his fourth to desert Secret and Geisway in the Royal Lodge Stakes at Ascot . |
| 41 | The first few times , the pup gets his food for free to demonstrate to him that people are nice , but after a few treats he has to sit for his stranger and for his supper . |
| 42 | George Alexander Gruen was accepted by Winchester School and was about to sit for his Cambridge entrance when he was interned and shipped off to Canada in 1940 . |
| 43 | The most genuinely modest personality it is my pleasure to know , George had to be bullied by a number of us to sit for his sculpture by Archie Forrest who could well be considered as adept with clay as he is with paint . |
| 44 | Like so many kindly , amiable people , he was a confirmed gossip and loved to prattle about his friends ' affairs . |
| 45 | He mentions two examples of work that he implies Clark tried to claim as his own . |
| 46 | In 1910 he became partially paralysed , losing the use of his legs , but he continued to drive about his garden and woods . |
| 47 | It may be they know that I am meeting somebody they are trying to affect through his hierarchy ; or it may be they need to find out something which they think I am in a better position to find out than they are . |
| 48 | Man has to go through his personal exploration and final mastery of his inferno . |
| 49 | The joke was that it was sometime later that we learnt the whole affair had been staged by Basil who had been in earlier to go through his in-tray and deal with the important memos , etc . |
| 50 | And it was the thought of all the children who , like Danny might have experimented not knowing that they were dicing with death , that prompted David to try to stop any more parents having to go through his own agony . |
| 51 | ‘ Thank you for allowing me to go through his papers . ’ |
| 52 | " How long do you think it would take whoever killed him to go through his pockets and cut out the clothes labels ? " asked Sergeant Burgess . |
| 53 | ‘ The version I heard-was that Lesley-Jane was going out to dinner with Michael Banks ‘ to go through his lines ’ . ’ |
| 54 | ‘ Until we 've had a chance to go through his papers . |
| 55 | ENGLAND new boy Les Ferdinand has Ray Wilkins 's nagging to thank for his call-up for the Turkey match later this month . |
| 56 | Payne also has Jack Nicklaus to thank for his breakthrough . |
| 57 | The envious man is obsessively drawn to see through his rival 's eyes , the cruel man is as sensitive to a sufferer 's feelings as the compassionate ; and both are disinterested , in that it does not matter to them whether any injury they do is of benefit to themselves . |
| 58 | What 's going on behind the long face and the short , practical crop is nothing we 're going to see through his eyes . |
| 59 | Article 20 of the Brussels Convention provides that where a defendant domiciled in one Contracting State is sued in a court of another Contracting State the court shall stay the proceedings so long as it is not shown that the defendant has been able to receive the document instituting the proceedings or an equivalent document in sufficient time to enable him to arrange for his defence , or that all necessary steps have been taken to this end . |
| 60 | A default judgment must , however , not be recognised if the defendant was not duly served with the document which instituted the proceedings or with an equivalent document in sufficient time to enable him to arrange for his defence . |