Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] his [noun sg] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both came to the Sunday services immediately after coming along to the centre , one of the lads having a belief in Jesus but had never taken the step of repentance and asking Him into his heart , when he did his reaction was to say he felt the chains fall from him and that he believes Jesus has broken his addiction to alcohol . |
| 2 | Having arrived in Britain as a raw but gifted teenager , Wattana has honed his game to match-play sharpness by three seasons on the professional circuit . |
| 3 | The 15 homes in the first phase are all sold and occupied and now he has turned his attention to phase two , which will comprise 14 homes . |
| 4 | TO SOME , Rollins is a cartoon character , Captain Testosterone — the abused child who has over-compensated his way to semi-stardom . |
| 5 | Ian McCormack has devoted his life to windsurfing . |
| 6 | That is both why he has survived and why he has led his country to disaster . |
| 7 | Marcus 's male Akita is castrated , to lower is dominance level , and he has taken his dog to obedience training classes since puppyhood . |
| 8 | " Just as his 1858 trips had made known his commitment to emancipation , those of 1862 showed his determination to preserve the prerogatives of the autocrat " . |
| 9 | Emlyn Williams might have pointed his finger to Art , to the Theatre , to Magic and Burton had time for all three : but later . |
| 10 | He is expected to play again in January , specialists having approved his return to training , but is unwilling to turn out too soon , as he did against Steaua after surgery , for fear of jeopardising his chances of playing in the World Cup . |
| 11 | This was not the moment to lecture him on the facts of hospital life , so I said briefly , ‘ Patients prefer two to one , ’ and asked if he had explained his position to Sister . |
| 12 | He had communicated his recommendation to Congress , where it would be subject to approval by both chambers . |
| 13 | After all , just because she had been unaccompanied at Emma 's house , just because she had accepted his invitation to dinner , did not mean that she was unattached . |
| 14 | Now was the time to say no , to deny him while the pressured timbre of his voice still echoed in her mind , threatening whatever barriers had withstood his onslaught to date . |
| 15 | In competition with other small businesses , the archetypal ‘ little man ’ had clawed his way to success through clinging to such beliefs . |
| 16 | His decision did not mean that he had abandoned his commitment to persuasion and conversion ; it was the principle of non-violence and not coercion which informed the spirit of his actions . |
| 17 | She had brought his heart to life and what she had left in it would never die . |
| 18 | Meanwhile in another part of the village Constable Quince had run his quarry to earth in the vegetable garden of the Manor . |
| 19 | He had taken his sister to town that morning , to Miss Baker 's and Miss Adeane 's where all the gossip would be flowing free and strong , and bought her a new hat and gloves and a flask of the perfume Miss Adeane kept hidden discreetly away for customers who wished it to he believed that they smelled naturally of lavender or roses . |
| 20 | Skinner teamed up with former Blackheath back-rowers of the '80s , Danny Vaughan and Kevin Acott , after learning that another Blackheath colleague from that era had lost his wife to cancer . |
| 21 | There were large , unmistakeable signs that with The Child In Time McEwan had lost his desire to outrage . |