Example sentences of "[verb] his [noun] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Tottenham teenager beat his stepfather to death with a cricket bat after an argument about mess caused by his puppies . |
| 2 | I shall spend the next several years drinking decaffeinated coffee and swapping babygros with other NCT mothers while my partner bores his colleagues to death with intestinal flora between games of squash . |
| 3 | Expect his team to group around the yellow jersey , lots of nervousness and shoving in the peloton , while adventurous riders test their strength at the front . |
| 4 | He also exhibited seven paintings at the British Institution ( 1841–60 ) and eighty-four ( 1841–69 ) at the Society of British Artists , of which he was elected a member in 1845 , resigning in 1852 in the hope that this would assist his election to associateship of the Royal Academy . |
| 5 | He devoted his life to politics for a twofold purpose : to ensure that the useless slaughter of the First World War was not repeated , and that the survivors of that horrific experience should live in a better world . |
| 6 | Unionist candidates used his letter to Law as an election leaflet to reassure their supporters and to parade his capture to the nation . |
| 7 | JAMAICAN umpire Steve Bucknor changed his attitude to trial by television on the second day of the second cricket Test between India and South Africa in Johannesburg yesterday . |
| 8 | In competition with other small businesses , the archetypal ‘ little man ’ had clawed his way to success through clinging to such beliefs . |
| 9 | And I was gon na carry and bring his coat to sort of like down there . |
| 10 | Over the last 20 years or so , the growing youngster has not simply had to edge his way to acceptance by the adult community as one of them : he has had to gain entry to and then leave a comparatively regulated teenage society in addition . |
| 11 | As the passenger capsule whisked through the crystalline tube above the blurred green hell of jungle , Jaq scrutinized his personal Tarot card and recalled his trip to Earth as a boy aboard the Black Ship … |
| 12 | In the 1930s one elderly man made his way to church through Bachelor 's Walk on winter Sunday evenings by the light of a hand-lantern . |
| 13 | The dead person was then taken by Horus and presented to Osiris , who was seated on his throne accompanied by Isis and Nephthys , and received his reward to admittance to the afterlife . |
| 14 | Kuhn started his academic career as a physicist and then turned his attention to history of science . |
| 15 | Delaunay was himself profoundly aware that he had evolved a new kind of painting and he communicated his discoveries to Apollinaire with whom he had become very friendly . |
| 16 | During these same months , Henry was also pursuing an alternative strategy to obtain the annulment by sending his agents to rifle through archives in England and on the continent in the hope of uncovering precedents to support his claim that the pope had no right of judgment over his marriage . |
| 17 | The huge international interest in Brightness which followed his escape to freedom in Turkish waters , has turned him into a valuable commodity . |
| 18 | A MAN who hacked his father-in-law to death with a Samurai sword in a row over drugs was yesterday jailed for life . |
| 19 | Expressed crudely , advocates of this approach tend to locate the essential Nizan in the act of resignation itself and proceed to interpret his allegiance to communism in the light of the events of September 1939 . |
| 20 | Mr Salmond said : ‘ As soon as circumstances allow , Smith will resume his attempt to water down the manifesto on which Labour won the general election in Scotland . |
| 21 | Dalglish switched his sights to Marker after failing in a £2.5million bid for Craig Short . |
| 22 | ‘ But we do not proceed on some of the grounds mentioned at the bar , such as the effect of the plaintiff 's alteration of the instrument as making it void , or that the defendant thereby lost his right to contribution from the joint makers of the note ; nor on any doctrine as to the relation of principal and surety . |
| 23 | You would n't have heard of him , of course , but I used to read his articles to Daddy at one time , and I remember seeing in the papers that he had been very ill . |
| 24 | Only the width of a post denied him a sensational late equaliser at Everton in the following round , and Second Division Brighton will greet his return to action with some trepidation in tonight 's second round replay . |
| 25 | Meanwhile in another part of the village Constable Quince had run his quarry to earth in the vegetable garden of the Manor . |
| 26 | BRITISH Rail supervisor Geoffrey Capper battered and strangled his wife to death at their flat in Westcliff , a court heard yesterday . |
| 27 | Proud of being a member of a long line of parson–naturalists stretching back to John Ray and Gilbert White [ qq.v. ] , he saw his contributions to science as an extension of his work as a priest . |
| 28 | He rolled his eyes to heaven in mock devotion , and intoned , ‘ Give me a husband , ora pro nobis . |
| 29 | A ‘ COMPASSIONATE ’ hit-and-run driver took his victim to hospital before vanishing . |
| 30 | Took his ex-wife to court for suspending his maintenance payments . |