Example sentences of "[adv prt] [art] [noun sg] 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 | 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 | He had gone only a few yards however when the horse hurled him over a precipice to his death . |
| 5 | That is why he manoeuvred frantically , and brilliantly , to fend off the challenge to his party leadership last month . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She stole up the staircase to his room , where she had not been since she was one of his students . |
| 9 | DETECTIVES are hunting the killer of a friendly bus driver gunned down as he walked up the driveway to his North-East home . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But he ignored them , leaping straight up the spiral to his father 's room . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |