Example sentences of "[conj] [to-vb] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | The client had wanted either custody or to see his child every day . |
| 2 | I shifted my weight on to my other foot , looked around the landing and up the stairs , half-expecting to see my father leaning over the banister rail , or to see his shadow on the wall of the landing above , where he thought he could hide and listen to my phone calls without me knowing . |
| 3 | An RFL is subject to the Solicitors ' Disciplinary Tribunal , including its power to fine the RFL , to strike the name of the RFL off the register or to suspend his or her registration . |
| 4 | Sir Charles Trevelyan refused to withdraw or to curb his activities in any way and was consequently expelled from the Party . |
| 5 | A testator would not set out to establish a trust , or to confirm his will in trust form , hoping that in details his intention would take precedence over his words : the civil law already coped with these problems , and the law of trusts was able to follow rather than lead . |
| 6 | Regression therapy does not play a role in all hypnotic treatment : if the patient wishes to give up smoking or to pass his driving test , for instance , then regression does not come into it . |
| 7 | Intel also filed a motion asking Judge William Ingram to reconsider or to certify his April 15 ruling demanding a retrial of the case over the microcode in the 80287 maths co-processor , which Intel says Advanced Micro was not entitled to use . |
| 8 | If the committee resolves that a trustee who has used improper solicitation to obtain proxies or to procure his appointment as trustee , should nonetheless receive remuneration for acting as trustee , the court can override this resolution ( r 6.148(2) ) . |
| 9 | Picasso , who was anxious to paint an object as he ‘ thought ’ it , or to express his ideas about it , was naturally anxious to explain as fully as possible the nature of its formal composition . |
| 10 | The sentence had no effect on Barry 's eligibility to complete his current term ( due to expire on Jan. 2 , 1991 ) or to fulfil his stated intention of standing for the city council elections on Nov. 6 . |
| 11 | He declined to explain why or to give his name on the telephone . |
| 12 | Usually a person , like the plaintiff , who suffers no special damage from a breach of the law must ask the Attorney-General either to institute proceedings or to give his consent ( in a relator action ) to the plaintiff 's proceeding . |
| 13 | He did not want to appear at a loss or to let his followers down . |
| 14 | So instead you set out either to strengthen your position or to undermine his . |
| 15 | It would help the hon. Gentleman — because it is unusual for him — to check his facts or to read his Conservative Central Office brief before he speaks , or at least to memorise it . |
| 16 | He certainly never missed an opportunity to underline the Catholicism of Copernicus or to exaggerate his connections with Rome . |
| 17 | If he wants to get or to keep his employment , he has to sign the document which the employer puts before him and he may do so without fully appreciating what it may involve . |
| 18 | At the end of the book , though , Zuckerman confronts Roth with the opinion that the latter has made a mistake in trying to tame or to shed his imagination in the foregoing text , that fiction is superior to fact , and that the factuality of The Facts is specious . |
| 19 | Extraordinary embassies of an essentially ceremonial kind , so frequent in the past , involving the sending of a great aristocrat on a mission of congratulation or condolence or to represent his sovereign at a coronation ceremony , were now becoming rare . |
| 20 | He therefore refused to attend or to allow his wife to . |
| 21 | Thus , the protagonists ' encounter with a postman who is too drunk to articulate properly or to deliver his letters , which he keeps dropping in the street , is one of a series of symbolic episodes expressing the generalized breakdown of communication in a country that has lost all sense of social cohesion . |
| 22 | Would Mr Mafouz be able to glory in his son 's seventeen straight alphas , or to admire his leading part in the headmaster 's The Bowl of Night , a musical based on The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám ? |
| 23 | Perhaps he was waiting for Gabriel to make a bolt for freedom , or to denounce his masters from the stage as murderers and charlatans . |
| 24 | I have come to the conclusion that the law of libel is one and the same as to all plaintiffs ; and that , in every action of libel , whether the statement complained of is , or is not , a libel , depends on the same question — viz. , whether the jury are of opinion that what has been published with regard to the plaintiff would tend in the minds of people of ordinary sense to bring the plaintiff into contempt , hatred , or ridicule , or to injure his character . |
| 25 | ‘ … I have come to the conclusion that the law of libel is one and the same as to all plaintiffs ; and that , in every action of libel , whether the statement complained of is , or is not , a libel , depends on the same question — viz. , whether the jury are of opinion that what has been published with regard to the plaintiff would tend in the minds of people of ordinary sense to bring the plaintiff into contempt , hatred , or ridicule , or to injure his character . |
| 26 | . It is here very tentatively suggested that these may be cases in which , as the law now stands , the doctor has a discretion … either to refrain , at his patient 's request , from administering life-saving treatments or to ignore his patient 's wishes where compliance is likely to result in death . |
| 27 | It was argued that the King might intervene either to persuade Asquith to call an election or to refuse his assent to Home Rule until there had been one ; this was certainly within the theoretical Royal Prerogative , for the King had an undoubted right to advise his ministers and — by the Unionist argument at least — his power of veto had been necessarily restored by the removal of the powers of the Lords . |
| 28 | I 'm not ashamed to own my Lord or to defend his cause maintain the honour of his word , the glory of his cross ! |
| 29 | Similarly ( and this is a point we develop in later chapters ) ‘ there is little opportunity for the individual to obtain a conception of the whole or to survey his place in the total scheme ’ . |
| 30 | At least one citizen died through coming back into the town after a great thickness of ash had accumulated , and presumably during a lull in the eruption , either to loot or to rescue his own little hoard of gold . |