Example sentences of "[be] [to-vb] his [noun sg] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ONE of Scottish accountancy 's best-known names is to leave his firm at the end of September . |
| 2 | That has whetted Graham 's appetite for more honours — and he accepts he 'll have to keep filling the Highbury trophy room if he is to guarantee his future at the club . |
| 3 | he played once more before the Lord 's show-piece and was called six times for throwing in the Hampshire match , but the selectors decided to risk him again in the second Test , where he was to meet his fate at the most famous ground in cricket . |
| 4 | For an officer in Northern Nigeria to complain that his emir refused to take his advice was to put his career at the gravest possible risk ; he could expect in due course to be moved to ‘ easier work ’ — in other words , to administrative oblivion . |
| 5 | During his convalescence he met the girl who was to become his wife at the local hunt ball and married her before returning to France . |