Example sentences of "[prep] [pos pn] [noun] to his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hon. Member for Berwick-upon-Tweed ( Mr. Beith ) made some generous remarks in his speech about my visit to his constituency , for which I was grateful . |
| 2 | ‘ It is plain that all the indications were that Monsieur Gebrec had taken his own life … it was only on account of my promise to his mother … ’ |
| 3 | I would have been standing erm about two or three foot away from him anyway sir , so that , including the distance height wise , I could have been er from the end of my weapon to his head or any part of his body there would have been a maximum of between four to five feet at least . |
| 4 | They should send a copy of their letter to His Excellency U Hla Maung , Embassy of Myanmar , 19a Charles Street , Berkeley Square , London W1X 8ER . |
| 5 | Mozart wrote of its success to his mother : |
| 6 | After all the signals of rejection she 'd sent out at the apartment — despite Marlin , despite the dangerous streets , despite the hour , despite their bitter history — she 'd come , bearing the gift of her body to his bed . |
| 7 | Today , the remembrance of her visit to his home in Wimbledon and its harrowing aftermath came back with startling clarity . |
| 8 | Then she discovered that it was Travis she had to thank that the news of her engagement to his cousin was all over Vasey 's , as , still smiling , he stated , ‘ Hope you do n't mind , Naylor , but I came in earlier to have a quick word with Leith , and could n't resist telling her assistant that a possible reason for Leith being late this morning could be her getting engaged to you at the weekend . ’ |
| 9 | But , warmed by the fish baps and sweet tea , he wished to offer more of his home to his kind friends than he had previously rehearsed . |
| 10 | And as a mark of their respect for their aviator comrade , a lone bugler played The Last Post and Reveille before an RAF Hercules flew over the graveside at Frankby Cemetery in a special salute to the man who had given the last six years of his life to his country . |
| 11 | He talked of the misery of his marriage to his wife , and the evil character of you , Monks , his only son , who had been brought up by your mother to hate him . |
| 12 | D.G. Rossetti did not have a Christian conscience , but he was not immune from a sense of guilt about the long deferment of his marriage to his model and mistress , Lizzy Siddal . |
| 13 | In one of the most striking of his letters to his brother , the Emperor Joseph II , he stresses the need for a ruler always to be willing to give his subjects a complete account of the finances of the state and of their administration ; such action , he writes , is ‘ glorious , useful and just ’ . |
| 14 | But he would be the first to admit he owed most of his success to his wife Renee . |
| 15 | With a snap of his fingers to his dog , he gingerly crossed the stream , stepping carefully across the shallowest spots until he joined her . |
| 16 | And every Sunday after service he invited " a good number of his friends to his house , where he first reads over the paper , and then comments upon the text " . |
| 17 | YOU can not fault Gerald Ronson for the professionalism of his approach to his liquidity crisis . |
| 18 | Illness meant that he gradually relinquished active control of his firm to his son ; Stanford 's London Atlas of Universal Geography … |
| 19 | The despairing jerk of his head to his Sergeant proclaimed that to Charles enough was now enough . |
| 20 | From the half open door of Alan 's office I could hear , albeit indistinctly , the unhesitating flow of his address to his machine . |
| 21 | Usually , a soldier was expected to pay one-third of his profit to his captain , who then paid one-third of that , in other words one-ninth of the original sum , together with one-third of all profits of his own , to the crown . |
| 22 | The German skipper ascribed most of his problems to his team 's unfamiliarity with a boat as big as the 33ft ( 10.2m ) Farr MRX used . |
| 23 | ( Sir William Hamilton , Britain 's envoy to Naples , was once deeply involved in this pillaging , giving most of his acquisitions to his wife , Emma , better-known as Nelson 's mistress . ) |
| 24 | His adaptation of Twomey 's words and manner had in it something like the meticulous grace of his dancing to his mother 's music . |
| 25 | The greatest shock Khrushchev delivered that day was to read Lenin 's letters suggesting that the party should remove Stalin for abuse of power and threatening to break off all relations with him because of his affronts to his wife , Nadezhda Krupskaya . |
| 26 | It is effective chiefly in defence , since in delivering it the karateka presents only the side of his body to his opponent , thereby protecting all his vital areas . |
| 27 | All else apart , I could not forget that movement of his hand to his pocket when ‘ Parsons ’ knocked at the door . |
| 28 | It was Francis — it hurts , this , to remember — it was Francis who , bewildered , touched the back of his hand to his eye . |
| 29 | For example , he transfers his share of his house to his wife . |
| 30 | Fourth , if , having acted according to these principles , he were subsequently challenged regarding the lawfulness of his conduct , the doctor would have the benefit of the defence of necessity if he had intervened , but if he had not intervened , he would not thereby be in breach of his duty to his patient . |