Example sentences of "who [verb] his name [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The underwater explorer Jacques Cousteau was among those who lent his name to the protest . |
| 2 | The screenplay was written by Herb Gardner , a cartoonist who made his name with The Nebbishes and the 1962 hit Broadway play , A Thousand Clowns , filmed in 1965 . |
| 3 | It co-stars Hugh Grant , 31 , who made his name in the film of E M Forster 's Maurice . |
| 4 | Police believe the man responsible for the murder is a client known only as John who signed his name in the book at the massage parlour on the day Miss Trenholme was murdered . |
| 5 | That it was going in this direction anyway had already been signalled by the resignations — often amid recrimination — of every one of Mr Gorbachev 's top economic advisers : notably Stanislav Shatalin ( who gave his name to the rejected ‘ 500-day ’ plan to convert the Soviet economy to capitalism ) and Nikolai Petrakov ( who was the president 's personal economic guru ) . |
| 6 | The leaders of the Trades Union Congress , governors of the BBC , the Archbishops of York and Canterbury , to say nothing of grand figures like the former foreign secretary , Lord Halifax , the former chancellor and home secretary who gave his name to the wartime Anderson shelter , Lord Waverley , and the sainted Lady Violet Bonham Carter were all against . |
| 7 | From the first example you should have found This method of setting out sets was thought out by a mathematician named Venn , who gave his name to the " Venn diagram " . |
| 8 | Osman ( Uthman ) I , who gave his name to the Ottoman empire , inherited the crumbling Seljuk patrimony at the end of the fourteenth century . |
| 9 | The Rev. Joseph Edelson , a controversial Anglo-Catholic who gave his name to the house , was vicar of Gainford for 40 years but he also had other interests . |