Example sentences of "[prep] his [noun sg] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This seems to indicate that , despite his reference to sex as a fine and noble thing , he still regards it with a certain amount of misgiving , and as something that should be kept under strict control . |
| 2 | As all Iraqis know , Saddam himself is Sunni , despite his claim to descent from Ali ; and the putative victory over Iran was presumably won by all Iraqis , Shia and Sunni alike . |
| 3 | The remains of President Salvador Allende were reburied in the central cemetery of the capital , Santiago , on Sept. 4 , the 20th anniversary of his election to power in 1970 . |
| 4 | Nodding absently he opened the palm of his hand to gesture towards Tran Van Lung 's sea-green gown . |
| 5 | Argan believed that art belonged to all men , which is why he battled in defence of the cultural heritage from the dark days of Fascism — to the last days of his life , proof of his commitment to criticism as an instrument of conscience . |
| 6 | The statement ‘ Truth is God ’ , which Gandhi instinctively felt to be a more accurate expression of his basic position , is not inconsistent with his description of Truth as Being itself , as eternal , or with his reference to Truth as that which alone is , all else being momentary . |
| 7 | Walking with his family to dinner in Houston , Mr Bush admitted after early results : ‘ It does n't look good . ’ |
| 8 | In Chile , Pablo Neruda was an established poet with a continent-wide reputation before his conversion to Communism under the impact of the Spanish Civil War — particularly the murder of García Lorca , whom he saw as the bearer of the spirit of Republican Spain . |
| 9 | In his speech to parliament on April 8th outlining his policies , Mr Balladur said he would continue ‘ to take part fully in the construction of Europe ’ . |
| 10 | In his footnote to Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind , J. S. Mill says that it is not ‘ the individual and instantaneous impressions ’ that an object produces in us that we predicate of the object . |
| 11 | In his testimony to Congress in July 1987 — which had been given under immunity and was , therefore , inadmissible at his trial — Poindexter had said that he alone had authorized the Iran-contra operation and that Reagan had known nothing of it [ see pp. 35828-29 ] . |
| 12 | Meiklejohn says , " Every adjective is either an explicit or an implicit predicate " , the former corresponding in his book to appearance in predicative position and the latter to attributive use ; and he goes on to show , with examples , that he takes exactly the same view as is found later in accounts given within a Chomskyan framework . |
| 13 | Ever since his return to power in 1958 , his foreign policy had been pointed in that direction : his development of an independent French nuclear deterrent and his growing estrangement from NATO are part of that general background against which his treatment of the EEC in 1965 must be understood . |
| 14 | This was " our Arthur " at his first big political contest on home ground since his election to presidency of the union . |
| 15 | Orbos , 40 , an unabashed populist , had made a meteoric rise since his election to Congress in 1987 , and was widely credited with having injected new life into the Aquino administration . |
| 16 | He died 28 September 1651 , while on his way to church in Hornchurch , Essex , leaving a widow and a daughter . |
| 17 | One died of loss of blood on his way to hospital in Co . |
| 18 | And Julian Logue , who re-wrote the NI Snooker history books with the 147 maximum at the Bass Open in Coalisland last season , weighed in with 110 on his way to victory over Michael Sweet . |
| 19 | Graham Hill on his way to victory at Goodwood in 1962 , BRM 's best year ( left ) . |
| 20 | He informed them of Gen Morgan 's visit to Belgrade two days earlier , and Tito 's refusal to back down on his claim to sovereignty over Venezia Giulia . |
| 21 | The organisers stress that this is not an exhibition about Ruskin 's relationship to Victorian architecture , but about his approach to architecture as a whole . |
| 22 | Her husband , Kenneth Branagh , won a Michael Balcon award for his contribution to cinema at last night 's ceremony at London 's Grosvenor House Hotel . |