Example sentences of "[prep] his [noun sg] to [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Edward acknowledges her effect on him in a letter — one of numerous happy , affectionate letters to ‘ My dearest Friend ’ — from his lodgings at 113 Cowley Road , Oxford , 29 January 1898 ( the third of his letters to her after his return to Oxford for the Lent Term ) : Take care of yourself my dearest friend . |
| 2 | And , after his return to England at the beginning of the year , he was forced to catch up with all the work he had neglected . |
| 3 | Precise information on his death is lacking , but it seems to have occurred about four years after his return to England from Amsterdam in 1602 . |
| 4 | It must have been written after his return to England in January 1120 , and probably not long after this date . |
| 5 | After his return to England in 1827 he worked with his brother Henry Rome Stutchbury ( 1796–1853 ) , a dealer in natural history specimens , until in 1831 he was appointed curator of the museum of the Bristol Institution . |
| 6 | These studies continued , with increasing sophistication , after his return to Europe in 1966 as Professor of Anatomy at the new Erasmus University in Rotterdam . |
| 7 | He had played a successful hand under Æthelred , and maintained his position in the fighting of 1015 – 16 , but Cnut , perhaps with the encouragement of his consort Ælfgifu of Northampton , who retained some sort of recognised position even after his marriage to Emma of Normandy , and whose father Eadric had overthrown , clearly decided that he was too powerful and dangerous to be tolerated further . |
| 8 | Stirling remained a favourite with several monarchs : James II was born there , James III preferred it to other residences , James IV added to it , and James V transformed the interior into a Renaissance palace after his marriage to Mary of Guise . |
| 9 | Rijkaard and Van Basten had travelled to Holland but Milan did not want them to play and both pulled out of the squad , Rijkaard with flu , Van Basten claiming he was tired after his trip to Tokyo for the World Club Championship . |
| 10 | Three sets of cadenzas survive , the first for the Countess , another for Mozart 's own use ( 22 ) , and a third written after his move to Vienna in the 1780s . |
| 11 | Eliot must have heard of his arrest during or just after his visit to Paris at the beginning of that month since , on his return , he immediately sent a cable to Archibald MacLeish , the poet who was then Assistant Secretary of State , saying that he was eager to help Pound in any way he could . |
| 12 | This seems to indicate that , despite his reference to sex as a fine and noble thing , he still regards it with a certain amount of misgiving , and as something that should be kept under strict control . |
| 13 | He soon became fluent in Welsh and has never forgotten the basics of the language , despite his move to Irby on the Wirral where he lives with his wife Beryl . |
| 14 | As all Iraqis know , Saddam himself is Sunni , despite his claim to descent from Ali ; and the putative victory over Iran was presumably won by all Iraqis , Shia and Sunni alike . |
| 15 | From Bethlehem at the beginning of his Gospel to Rome at the end of Acts it is the one Spirit active throughout : first showing us the nature of that messianic salvation brought by Jesus , and then showing us how it was spread . |
| 16 | The issue which brought Henry VIII into dispute with Pope Clement VII was the question of the annulment of his marriage to Catherine of Aragon . |
| 17 | Alexander was resident at the papal curia at the time of his election to Coventry in 1224 . |
| 18 | The remains of President Salvador Allende were reburied in the central cemetery of the capital , Santiago , on Sept. 4 , the 20th anniversary of his election to power in 1970 . |
| 19 | I have no doubt that Willie lost his chance of being leader and perhaps Prime Minister as a result of his loyalty to Ted during this period . |
| 20 | Mr Guerin is suspected of misrepresenting dozens of contracts during the sale of his company to Ferranti in 1988 . |
| 21 | Nodding absently he opened the palm of his hand to gesture towards Tran Van Lung 's sea-green gown . |
| 22 | Argan believed that art belonged to all men , which is why he battled in defence of the cultural heritage from the dark days of Fascism — to the last days of his life , proof of his commitment to criticism as an instrument of conscience . |
| 23 | He did not tell me of his coming to Bourani as a man tells something that chances to occur to him ; but far more as a dramatist tells an anecdote where the play requires . |
| 24 | Bush 's unusually forthright response to the developing scandal was illustrative of his sensitivity to allegations of official extravagance , and his resolve to distance his administration from the spendthrift years of the Reagan regime . |
| 25 | The large canvases include two new chequerboard compositions , with inserted panels resembling prayer mats laid out on a tiled floor , reminders of his visit to Morocco in 1991 , when he was making a film of Matisse 's work in Tangiers for Channel 4 . |
| 26 | He has been savaged throughout his visit to Rome by an unusual alliance of fundamentalist Protestants and Tory MPs not usually known for their theological knowledge or zeal . |
| 27 | This success lies behind his translation to Canterbury in the following year ; thereafter , until his death in 1381 , he presided over a period of taxation the scale of which exceeded even that of the early years of the reign . |
| 28 | The statement ‘ Truth is God ’ , which Gandhi instinctively felt to be a more accurate expression of his basic position , is not inconsistent with his description of Truth as Being itself , as eternal , or with his reference to Truth as that which alone is , all else being momentary . |
| 29 | His file closes with his departure to Brecon in March 1942 . |
| 30 | Walking with his family to dinner in Houston , Mr Bush admitted after early results : ‘ It does n't look good . ’ |