Example sentences of "[to-vb] his [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the freedom to communicate his thoughts and opinions is one of the most precious of the rights of man ; every citizen is therefore free to speak , to write and to print , except in cases where the law lays down that he is liable to prosecution for abuse of that liberty . |
| 2 | He bent his head to the ground , trying to catch his breath as he listened to the warning bells of the horse-drawn fire engines , heading to the inferno . |
| 3 | They kept their heads down in their books though they had long ceased to study , unwilling to catch his eye or even to breathe loudly . |
| 4 | The solicitor went to catch his train and presently Wexford heard the aunt say : |
| 5 | Every time she saw him again after an absence she stood aside humbly , expecting him at last to have reached the age when she was an embarrassment , expecting him to shuffle his feet and colour and do no more than extend a cool hand , and she would have held none of this against him . |
| 6 | For another thing , I told a friend of mine at Corps to shuffle his documents if the frogs started looking for us . |
| 7 | The man struggled to marshal his thoughts and translate them into English . |
| 8 | Mr Anderson went across to his home to inform his wife and when he learned of the family circumstances he immediately paid Mrs Stevens £50 . |
| 9 | He left them in a panelled solar beyond the hall , and went to inform his master that he had unexpected guests ; and no more than five minutes later the door of the room opened upon the lord of half Leicestershire , a good slice of Warwickshire and Northampton , and a large honour in Normandy brought to him by his marriage with the heiress of Breteuil . |
| 10 | Colonel Fergusson , who could not quite bear to inform his daughter that the human family sprang from the same impulse which animated a beetle striking its head against the walls of its box , replied that in his view the Fergussons were a happy accident . |
| 11 | The Duke turned abruptly back , intending to inform his lordship that he did not permit duelling among his officers , but Rossendale and Jane had been swallowed up in the crowd . |
| 12 | This meeting is called by a manager to inform his subordinates or to instruct or to control them . |
| 13 | After its opening Archbishop Melton of York demanded that the king should be brought before parliament ; Bishops Stratford and Orleton were thereupon sent to Kenilworth , where the king was imprisoned , to request his attendance but they came back to report with some zest his offensive words of refusal . |
| 14 | They will then try to revive his spirits while they consider which offer of a new home is most suitable for him . |
| 15 | After the general election of 1923 , the King had asked the defeated Prime Minister , Baldwin , to defer his resignation until the new Parliament could meet . |
| 16 | So desperate are the Welsh GM Vauxhall Conference club to secure his services that chairman John Reddy has even told Fry he can name his own salary . |
| 17 | Forget , who had just gone through the last of countless body punches from Noah , ( who throughout , worked just as hard to encourage his players as they did to respond to him ) literally ran from his seat , round the net to the far baseline in readiness to serve . |
| 18 | If a Prime Minister indicated that he wished to resign because he was ill , the Queen would indeed be acting in accordance with constitutional law if she were then and there to accept his resignation and appoint a successor after taking whatever soundings seemed appropriate . |
| 19 | Those who cared for Michael gently encouraged him to accept his toys and belongings again . |
| 20 | That was when they had sent for Captain Freddie , and after what he described as a long , sometimes ‘ vair ackermonious diskussion ’ , and after a good deal of long distance telephoning , fax instructions had finally come through that allowed the Chileans to accept his decision as to what was required . |
| 21 | And most people were willing to accept his leadership because the rewards were so great : it was exciting : it was the size of the thing , the scale he brought to it . ’ |
| 22 | Having known her for less than two months , he was not yet confident of any strong hold on her affections , despite the fact that she seemed quite willing to accept his embraces and kisses . |
| 23 | We need not agree entirely with Rousseau in order to accept his insight that election times are special . |
| 24 | When this was the case , the owner had no option but to accept his loss or institute a court case . |
| 25 | The authority is not bound to accept his recommendations but it is rare for many , or any of substance , to be overruled . |
| 26 | One of Churchill 's reactions to the fall of France was to put into effect his long-brewed plan to vent his anger and frustration on his secret services . |
| 27 | ‘ And if he 's lost any of his sharpness , he has the ability and intelligence to adjust his game and become more of a supplier of goals than scorer . |
| 28 | The new Milanese opera , Lucio Silla ( another opera seria ) had been partly written during the summer in Salzburg , but Mozart could not complete it until he had heard each of the principal soloists , and was able to adjust his arias and recitatives to suit individual voices . |
| 29 | He therefore need not be cautioned if questions are put for other purposes , for example , to establish his identity or his ownership of any vehicle or the need to search him in the exercise of powers of stop and search . |
| 30 | He visited prisons in France , Holland , Austria , Prussia , Denmark , Sweden and Russia — but it took time to establish his authority and certainly his relationships with administrators and staff were often initially imbued with deep suspicion or outright opposition . |