Example sentences of "[to-vb] with his [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was also during this period that primitive man undoubtedly arrived at the time when he was able to communicate with his fellows with developing abilities more effective than those available to the rest of living creatures . |
| 2 | Ali was never allowed out , but managed to communicate with his brothers by shouting . |
| 3 | They did not seem to square with his experience of real people ; there was something inhuman about Godwin 's conclusion that ‘ the virtuous man , in proportion to his improvement , will be under the constant influence of fixed and invariable principles ’ . |
| 4 | From the age of eight onwards he was allowed to dine with his parents at the Bonaparte family dinners which took place every Monday at the Tuileries , and occasionally at more formal dinners which were held in the Galerie de Diane . |
| 5 | With his position slipping badly in the opinion polls , he took a gamble by electing to appear with his wife on a prime-time television current affairs programme , on Jan. 27 , in order to address the charges . |
| 6 | Mr Parsons had turned to stand with his back to the fire , the eternal male hogging the best place in the room . |
| 7 | Maurice 's fists were clenched , his features contorted ; he got up from his chair and went to the window to stand with his back to the room . |
| 8 | Nor could he bring himself to stand with his back to the fire escape . |
| 9 | Continuing to stand with his back to her , he stared silently down at the muddy green waters of the River Thames for some moments , before turning slowly around to face her . |
| 10 | ‘ Anything — just as long as it contains a strong dose of alcohol ! ’ he told her crisply , continuing to stand with his back to her , frowning down at the irritatingly silent machine . |
| 11 | John Stacey has a total of fifteen days to pproceed with his apppeal against extradition to Britain . |
| 12 | A plaintiff is now obliged to serve with his statement of claim or file with his particulars of claim : ( a ) a medical report , substantiating all the personal injuries alleged in the statement of claim which the plaintiff proposes to adduce in evidence as part of his case at trial ; and ( b ) a statement of the special damages claimed , giving full particulars of the special damages for expenses and losses already incurred and an estimate of any future expenses and losses , including loss of earnings and pension rights . |
| 13 | The inexorable demands of royal duty took Prince Charles on to Wales , leaving Diana to sympathize with his loss by telephone . |
| 14 | He wrote at home in the morning and then , on free afternoons , he liked to walk with his wife in Kensington Gardens : particularly he enjoyed watching the boats which children brought to the Round Pond there . |
| 15 | Cos Grant 's gone off to play with his computer for a few minutes . |
| 16 | He wanted to topple with his arms round her |
| 17 | The Chancellor might be forced to raise rates again if sterling took a nosedive , but he did not need to sit with his finger on the trigger . |
| 18 | A director other than Browne might have given more theatrical conviction to the Furies , as other more recent productions have done , and a more enthusiastic public response might then have persuaded Eliot to continue with his exploration of symbolist drama . |
| 19 | Mr. Larmer , who prior to his work at Radford Park was a builder joiner , plans to continue with his woodwork at home in Lindford . |
| 20 | Whilst I do tend to agree with his observations about the pricing of some main line steam tours , I find his comments about ‘ no free rides for support crews ’ almost unbelievable . |
| 21 | And he did n't have to part with his cattle after all . |
| 22 | James Kilpatrick claimed that he had agreed to sell his half-share for £2,000 and that nothing less would have enticed him to part with his interest in the horse . |
| 23 | At paragraph 1497 , it is stated that in larceny the owner of the thing stolen has no intention to part with his property therein to the person taking it , although he may intend to part with the possession ; in false pretences the owner does intend to part with his property in the money or chattel , but it is obtained from him by fraud . |
| 24 | James Bridie had the Anglo-Scots summed up , though nothing to do with his work on those notorious Edinburgh grave-robbers , Burke and Hare . |
| 25 | There is no conception in Adorno of listeners coproducing musical meaning directly , at the moment of creation ; clearly this has to do with his undervaluing of performance and overvaluing of the written score , as well as with the centrality in his thinking of a relatively narrow , homogeneous musical culture , in which variations in musical interpretation were not significant . |
| 26 | Most people on the ‘ Carry Ons ’ seemed to think that it was quite nice having Ken around , which assuredly had a lot to do with his love of the series . |
| 27 | I think it 's partly to do with his admiration for the language , and also his background as both a reported and a writer . ’ |
| 28 | Lord 's fitness had a lot to do with his rally from a 2-0 deficit in games but Newton did not help his cause by incurring numerous conduct penalty points . |
| 29 | He knew that what he was feeling did n't have much to do with his brush with death . |
| 30 | I suspect it had to do with his relationship with his father . |