Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] to his [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following a consumer deal in which the consumer bought a hot bottle direct from the manufacturer , the consumer may claim for damage to his bed after the bottle burst . |
| 2 | Begin to look for route to his home in A-Z . |
| 3 | He also blamed the English family connexion of the crown princess for opposition to his politics at court . |
| 4 | He had a strong sense of responsibility to his vocation of preaching and loved to compare himself to St Paul . |
| 5 | He was approaching the track leading to the bell tower , a dark grim silhouette in the moonlight , when he saw a great glow of light to his right in the distance . |
| 6 | The fact that he was black and a Tory gave him a value out of proportion to his contribution to the local Party , so he was frequently trotted out at functions , and encouraged to ask questions of visiting speakers . |
| 7 | It was not that what he said was startlingly new , for it was based on a long tradition , but his particular talent and novelty was that he managed to combine biblical exegesis with growing papal ideology , to induce the texts to mean something of relevance to his leadership of society . |
| 8 | Jean-Paul signed over power of attorney to his brother in all the financial affairs of his companies , and Edouard , baron in all but name , returned to Paris and began work . |
| 9 | However an agent often holds no money or property for his principal unlike a trustee ; if he does receive money from or for his principal he is merely in a position of debtor to his principal in respect of it and if he receives goods he may hold them as bailee only ( see Lister v Stubbs [ 1890 ] 45 Ch 1 ) . |
| 10 | While Carkesse thought writing could cure his condition , Smart looked on much of his output as a vehicle of praise to his Creator for his cure . |
| 11 | Mozart was by now seriously overworked : he ascribed his periodic fits of depression to his separation from his wife . |
| 12 | He gathered all the great artists of Ulthuan to his court in Saphery . |
| 13 | From reassuring teenage youths about masturbation to his work as a sex therapist dealing with all shades of sexual and emotional problem ( and as a consultant to Forum magazine ) , he has remained totally unshockable . |
| 14 | Although the sons of Zebedee were evidently netsmen , Christian iconography has drawn on angling to depict anything from the means of grace by which God draws our souls up into Heaven to His ensnaring of the monstrous Leviathan . |
| 15 | Compiled by the author after many years of research , this book contains fresh data on the history of the Rolls family and explores Rolls 's interest in flying , in particular with regard to his part in the formative years of British military aviation . |
| 16 | We are very grateful to Brian L. Davis for access to his collection for this article . |
| 17 | In short , James faced a concerted campaign of civil disobedience from his Anglican subjects in response to his undermining of the laws protecting the Church of England . |
| 18 | In response to his cry for help today , you will be with me in paradise . |
| 19 | In response to his appeal to other countries to ignore the move , the governments of Australia and New Zealand announced that they would continue to recognise Papua New Guinea 's territorial integrity , whilst the Indonesian government stated on May 19 that it would abide by its principle of non-interference in the internal affairs of independent states . |
| 20 | There is a chapter which discusses the letters from Germans — ‘ good Germans ’ in the main — which were sent to him in response to his book about the camps . |
| 21 | Mortimer 's estates were taken into the king 's hands , but , in contrast to his father in 1322 and Mortimer himself in 1327 , Edward did not immediately use the confiscated lands to underpin the power of another group of favourites . |
| 22 | What he does n't do in contrast to his practice with musical guests is to invite Jazzie to talk . |
| 23 | It did not follow that , because the architect was under a duty to act fairly in making a valuation for the certificates , he was acting in a judicial capacity and therefore immune from liability to his principal for loss caused to him by a negligent valuation . |
| 24 | In addition to his profit on the plants which he brought from his nursery , he charged the Purefoys 1/6d. for a day 's labour in 1739 [ Eland , 1 , 94 ] , a rate that would have lifted his family to relative security , though certainly not prosperity . |
| 25 | In addition to his position as one of the country 's leading black politicians , Young was also a renowned liberal whose political views had been shaped through his involvement in the civil rights movement . |
| 26 | In addition to his promotion of the Act of Parliament , Whitbread made a loan of £800 to the establishment of the House of Industry . |
| 27 | In addition to his monitoring of church membership and attendance trends in the United Kingdom he is also seeking to provide country profiles for every country in Western Europe . |
| 28 | In addition to his share of the £136,000 prize fund for his match with Timman , he has already picked up a share ( with Timman ) of around £500,000 from sponsorship by the manufacturers of the Mephisto Chess Computer . |
| 29 | In addition to his competence as a shepherd George liked him as a man . |
| 30 | Mr. Eccles , for I.B.C. , in addition to his emphasis on the definition in section 735(1) of the Companies Act 1985 , referred to other specific provisions in the Insolvency Act 1986 in support of his submission that ‘ company ’ should be given its prima facie and primary meaning in relation to the provisions governing administrative receivers . |