Example sentences of "[adv] [art] [noun] to his [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The accompanying letter said how much they enjoyed the tour of Springfields and said Eric could pass on the sticker to his son . |
| 2 | That the program-crunching is done for him by people in Breslau , Poland , who re-transmit the results back to his office in Invernessshire for checking before sending down the line to his customer in the Thames Valley , shows that the supposed imperfections of two apparently notorious national telephone systems in fact present no real obstacle . |
| 3 | The 16th-century ruins of Knock Castle , 2 miles away , have a murky past — all the sons of the Laird were murdered by a neighbouring Forbes of Strath girnock ; when the Laird was informed he was so overcome by grief that he fell down a staircase to his death . |
| 4 | The emperor had begun to think polytheistic cult a veneration of evil spirits and therefore perhaps a danger to his realm . |
| 5 | Then she realized that books were really only a sideline to his stationery business ; he sold more birthday cards than books . |
| 6 | He gave away the rights to his oddball invention to settle a $10 gambling debt . |
| 7 | When the place passed out or Iranian airspace , the Shah turned over the controls to his pilot Captain Behzad Moezzi , and went back to his suite for lunch with the Queen . |
| 8 | But it was not the damage to his hand or the rest of the obvious physical damage that made a tragedy for Tom . |
| 9 | He had gone only a few yards however when the horse hurled him over a precipice to his death . |
| 10 | ‘ And then , years later , when Ryan died with not a penny to his name , I jumped to all the wrong conclusions — and , of course , you let me . |
| 11 | That is why he manoeuvred frantically , and brilliantly , to fend off the challenge to his party leadership last month . |
| 12 | Drives home the Shepherd to his rustick Bride , |
| 13 | There is a cartoon which depicts a statue to an elder statesman bearing the inscription , ‘ An inspiration to his country , a leader of men , but still a disappointment to his mother ’ . |
| 14 | His company decimated by murderous shell-fire even before reaching the objective , Jubert found himself alone , possibly the only surviving officer , and sent off a message to his battalion commander : ‘ I do not know where I am , but the position is of the first importance , and I have only ten men to hold it . ’ |
| 15 | After beating off a challenge to his priority by a Frenchman , C. A. Lamy — a discovery like this was a very important bit of property indeed — Crookes was elected into the Royal Society in 1863 , his sponsors including Faraday , Tyndall , Odling , Abel , Stewart and Herschel . |
| 16 | She stole up the staircase to his room , where she had not been since she was one of his students . |
| 17 | DETECTIVES are hunting the killer of a friendly bus driver gunned down as he walked up the driveway to his North-East home . |
| 18 | One of Alejandro 's sons playing back rode him off for the backhand and hit it up the field to his brother who dribbled it a few yards , then sliced it to Perdita . |
| 19 | But he ignored them , leaping straight up the spiral to his father 's room . |
| 20 | Decisions which he regards as important must be continually referred up the line to his superiors , for inter-departmental consultations etc . |
| 21 | There is practically no limit to his asceticism for any purpose — other than asceticism . |
| 22 | Sipotai can add nearly a tuman to his strength whenever he wants , and most of them are no more than two days ’ ride from here . ’ |
| 23 | The traditional story is that Edison sketched out the idea to his mechanic John Kruesi , who built it and bet a box of cigars it would not work . |
| 24 | MANAGER Graham Smith has spelled out the rewards to his England B team of a convincing display against the Springboks at Bristol today . |
| 25 | A fine and storming time was had by all ( to put it mildly ) , the degenerate nature of the evening summed up perfectly by the mildly amusing spectacle of one SHAUN RYDER being carried out of the venue at the end of the night , screaming out the directions to his hotel to his sweating , grumbling slaves . |
| 26 | But there was one fault in the design which did not escape the sharp eyes of the Thrush Green neighbours , and John Lovell was one who pointed out the weakness to his brother-in-law . |
| 27 | To the relief of leader Paddy Ashdown , Liverpool Mossley Hill MP , David Alton , said yesterday there was now no obstacle to his standing again at the next General Election . |
| 28 | To the relief of Paddy Ashdown , Liverpool Mossley Hill MP David Alton said yesterday there was now no obstacle to his standing again at the next general election . |
| 29 | Karkeek , who died aged 55 in 1858 following an accident to his gig , qualified on 1 December 1834 . |
| 30 | He would have ducked inside — he was in his working clothes with not even a stud to his shirt — ; but Meredith was already calling out a greeting and advancing towards him . |