Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , in accordance with the conventions of the time , and because of his anticipated death , much would remain for his executors to arrange . |
| 2 | Only once , late in life when he made as much of an excuse as he would ever make for his anti-Semitism , did Pound ever again enter the plea for himself that he suffered from the cultural anaemia of growing up in a suburb of an Eastern seaboard city . |
| 3 | For when his job finished at night , he would make for his favourite pub(s) and spend the whole evening with his cronies , drinking , playing dominoes , and talking of the ‘ old days ’ in that far-off land of persecution and misery . |
| 4 | What provision could he make for his family during his absence ? |
| 5 | By the time that Colt 's father had warmed a broth to take upstairs with the scrambled egg and toast that he would himself eat for his supper , the letter to his son would have been delivered to the Colonel 's department . |
| 6 | If we say that characterising the topic framework is a means of making explicit some of the assumptions a speaker can make about his hearer 's knowledge , we are not talking about the total knowledge which the speaker believes he shares with his hearer . |
| 7 | In an exuberant interview , David Dimbleby calls the results programme ‘ a drama [ in which ] heroes and villains rise and fall ’ ; elsewhere in the supplement , Sissons speaks of the excitement of seeing politicians ' masks slip , and backroom boss Philip Campbell describes his studio as a ‘ theatre-in-the-round ’ , attracting viewers to ‘ gather round David Dimbleby 's stage to see the plot unfold through his narrative ’ . |
| 8 | Also they do not believe that our experience ( as , for example , that a woman 's ministry feels good and appropriate ) is a reliable guide to what God may want for his Church . |
| 9 | He could compensate for his low official pay by means of the strings he could pull in conjunction with the other few rich peasants in the commune . |
| 10 | A little man , faced with a much larger adversary , can compensate for his opponent 's longer arm reach by using his legs as defensive weapons . |
| 11 | In Jobling , the plaintiff might have been able to claim social security benefits to partially compensate for his losses . |
| 12 | He must n't think about his book . |
| 13 | I do not know any other politician or statesman who would have acted with such speedy decision without stopping to think of the possible consequences to himself or what people might think about his intervention on behalf of an alleged terrorist . |
| 14 | Mrs Jones needs a closer and better relationship with the psychiatric services ; she needs to get them to listen to her needs and she also needs someone to provide practical help with money problems for her son , someone who can discuss work opportunities , recognize his need for friendship and help him think about his future . |
| 15 | It may have been because the school was voluntary-aided that the head also wanted religious education to have an important place , not so much in shaping the school but in underlining the requirement that everyone should at least think about his or her religious belief . |
| 16 | Being a sentence linguist , this was something he did not regard as his concern . |
| 17 | Gabriel blushed violently and felt the sweat spring through his palms and trickle down the hilt of his tin sword . |
| 18 | ‘ I shall act for his lordship in this matter . |
| 19 | The look she flicked him reminded him that this was one area where she would not appeal for his help ; she had been more than careful to protect him from any involvement with a drug-taking brother . |
| 20 | Mr Sisulu 's generosity and warmth did not waver during his time in the maximum security prison of Robben Island , where other inmates deferred to him as a charismatic senior statesman of what has been called ‘ the government-in-exile ’ . |
| 21 | The hon. Member for Hammersmith can flick through his papers , but I have those statistics before me , and they present a very different picture . |
| 22 | Quickly she would flick through his exercise books , glancing from page to page as they flew by . |
| 23 | A report of the Consultative Committee of the Board of Education in 1931 ( The Primary School ) contained words which were repeated by the Plowden Report in 1967 , " What a wise and good parent would desire for his own children , that a nation must desire for all children . " |
| 24 | ‘ Sorry , but the fact is the average backbench MP does n't know anything , unlike the average civil servant who really does know about his or her particular area . |
| 25 | Tom had always believed that there was a lot he did n't know about his father , although naturally , he said , he had never broached the subject with his mother . |
| 26 | Paradoxically , if such a person were to fail to give notice , he might then be said to be committing an offence even though , because of the hypothesised publicity , it is most unlikely that the police will not already know about his proposed march . |
| 27 | How much do you know about his visit ? ’ |
| 28 | He 's had to travel across half the world and he had to leave his eight children behind , but I do n't know about his wife . |
| 29 | The children do not know about his sex-change , and that is why the new couple prefer to stay anonymous . |
| 30 | And it 's a good idea to let your partners know about his , do n't you . |