Example sentences of "[adv prt] the [noun] to his [noun sg] " 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 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 .
4 That is why he manoeuvred frantically , and brilliantly , to fend off the challenge to his party leadership last month .
5 She stole up the staircase to his room , where she had not been since she was one of his students .
6 DETECTIVES are hunting the killer of a friendly bus driver gunned down as he walked up the driveway to his North-East home .
7 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 .
8 But he ignored them , leaping straight up the spiral to his father 's room .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
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