Example sentences of "[prep] his [noun sg] to [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Walking with his family to dinner in Houston , Mr Bush admitted after early results : ‘ It does n't look good . ’ |
| 3 | In his testimony to Congress in July 1987 — which had been given under immunity and was , therefore , inadmissible at his trial — Poindexter had said that he alone had authorized the Iran-contra operation and that Reagan had known nothing of it [ see pp. 35828-29 ] . |
| 4 | Meiklejohn says , " Every adjective is either an explicit or an implicit predicate " , the former corresponding in his book to appearance in predicative position and the latter to attributive use ; and he goes on to show , with examples , that he takes exactly the same view as is found later in accounts given within a Chomskyan framework . |
| 5 | Ever since his return to power in 1958 , his foreign policy had been pointed in that direction : his development of an independent French nuclear deterrent and his growing estrangement from NATO are part of that general background against which his treatment of the EEC in 1965 must be understood . |
| 6 | Orbos , 40 , an unabashed populist , had made a meteoric rise since his election to Congress in 1987 , and was widely credited with having injected new life into the Aquino administration . |
| 7 | He died 28 September 1651 , while on his way to church in Hornchurch , Essex , leaving a widow and a daughter . |
| 8 | One died of loss of blood on his way to hospital in Co . |