Example sentences of "[pron] he [vb past] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | The man with the sting made his living trawling for prawns , and fishing for mero , which he sold to the holiday village cafés , for a better price than he got from the locals . |
2 | Almost the only incident to mar the near perfection of the period immediately surrounding his retirement was the absence of any reply to a somewhat sententious letter of reminiscence and good wishes which he sent to the Duke of Windsor ( as King Edward had become ) . |
3 | Scott prepared a plan showing the relationship between the Foreign Office and the India Office which he sent to the Office of Works , who then on 17th January , 1859 instructed him to proceed with detailed drawings and prepare an approximate estimate of the cost of the new Foreign Office . |
4 | The crux of the letter which he wrote to the secretary of the OTC on 9 August 1922 was the matter of his nationality . |
5 | There he entered a museum which had no antiquities , and in the course of several years built galleries to house two private collections which he brought to the museum . |
6 | To Fermin Caballero , writing at the turn of the nineteenth century , this pattern of agricultural settlement constituted the chief bar to progress : a more intensive system was the key to higher production but the physical relation of the labourer and farmer to the land , the distance from the house in which he slept to the field he worked , made intense cultivation impossible . |
7 | The purpose of his journey , which he revealed to the king 's sister , Adela , countess of Blois , was to excommunicate the king , ‘ for the injury which he had done to God and himself for the last two years and more . ’ |
8 | Colonel Negus , a hero who had served in Marlborough 's army , was given a seat in Parliament and the custodianship of Bigshot Rayle , which he left to the care of his deputy , Baptist Nunn . |
9 | Pietro Miletti opened his briefcase and took out a sheet of paper which he offered to the magistrate . |
10 | Having waved them to a table , he flourished two wine glasses , which he filled to the brim with an excellent Chianti , before heading for the kitchen . |
11 | This interest is something which he continued to the end of his life , as witnessed by his increasing knowledge of India and to a lesser extent of China . |
12 | In one hand he carried a canvas satchel , some maps and a flashlight , which he added to the pile before eyeing her find . |
13 | Each riding forester had under him two or three walking foresters , who made annual payments to him equal to the amount of the farm which he paid to the warden . |
14 | This would amount to £216 3s as the value of a florin at this period was 3/ , this sum with 25 marks which he paid to the Pope for his consent was about one years income of this bishopric . |
15 | He had taken her number which he handed to the officer . |
16 | It was this guitar along with another ‘ 58 maple neck Strat which he handed to the Fender Custom Shop to form the basis of the Robert Cray Strat . |
17 | The defendant agreed , and prepared a list of goods to the value of £7,950 which he submitted to the manager , Mr. Gilberd , saying that it represented a genuine order by one Johal and asking him to authorise the supply of the goods in return for a building society cheque in that sum . |
18 | He owned a motor launch named Splash which he lost to the Navy in the war . |
19 | In a sacramentary he is shown being crowned by Christ , and in a book of pericopes ( biblical extracts ) which he gave to the cathedral of Bamberg , Christ is crowning Henry with one hand and his wife Kunigund with the other , while the patron saints of Bamberg , Peter and Paul , look on . |
20 | We handed over the stamped forms , which he gave to the koko for safe keeping . |
21 | Marx was , as Engels stressed in his funeral oration , first and foremost a revolutionary , and so the importance which he attached to the study of pre-literate peoples , the traditional field of anthropology , might at first seem strange . |
22 | One of his early projects was a film version of John Galsworthy 's Escape ( 1930 ) , which he proposed to the writer as a way to enable theatre to ‘ regain influence ’ over the screen . |
23 | I also have a copy of a speech he made in Geneva to the United Nations , in which he referred to the fatwa as outrageous , and an abuse of the most fundamental human rights — really very strong language for the British Government ! ’ |
24 | He was delighted by the somewhat undeserved honour of the Chancellorship of the University , which was bestowed upon him in 1930 , and which he retained to the end of his life . |
25 | He was active also in the Volunteer Militia ( forerunner of the Territorial Army ) , in which he rose to the rank of captain . |
26 | Mr. Cowan then laid on the table the fifty volumes from Cassells Library which he presented to the Society . |
27 | Some churches also long possessed objects given to them by Cnut , which occasionally bore inscriptions to that effect , like the reliquary for the remains of St Vincent which he presented to the monastery of Abingdon . |
28 | Taking his troubles to his doctor , he was given a long prescription , which he presented to the chemist without first reading it . |
29 | She was also discovering that there was more to Sean O'Farrell than the frivolous charm which he presented to the world . |
30 | Terry was still talking to Frank , but Frank ridiculed everything he said to the point where they , too , hardly spoke . |