Example sentences of "[v-ing] his [noun sg] to [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was he going to be chained here for evening after evening , tearing his soul to pieces with a moral dilemma to which he was no longer sure there was one certain simple answer ? |
| 2 | The England captain is a level-headed man , and Javed Mianded , who turns 35 on June 12 , is a much matured person with the added responsibility of leading his team to England for the first time , although he has captained Pakistan in 28 previous Tests , winning 11 and losing five , the rest being drawn . |
| 3 | That 's the bit about Esau selling his birthright to Jacob for a mess of pottage . |
| 4 | At the beginning of this century Dr Charles Tate Regan revised the Neotropical cichlid genera , turning his attention to Cichlasoma in 1905 . |
| 5 | Van Dyck had a hand in exporting his style to England in the 17th century ; the allure of the full-length formal portrait endured for the following 300 years . |
| 6 | ‘ She did say her father hated letting his house to strangers during the summer . ’ |
| 7 | ( Dmitry did n't kill his father but he keeps baring his breast to people about how much he wanted to . ) |
| 8 | It was enfeebling , it had killed off his efforts at meditation , and there was something almost sinful in allowing his imagination to feast on these buried years when he considered the present turmoil and growing anarchy engulfing the city that had made him one of its own . |
| 9 | He made a useful start in helping his club to victory in the Cardiff High School Old Boys Sevens where they beat a Nationwide VII 40–14 in the final . |
| 10 | Just before the break , Charlie Nicholas , enjoying his return to action after an 18-game absence , unleashed a ferocious , 18-yard effort that clipped the base of a post . |
| 11 | But John-William — who always knew to the very minute — was engaged in the happy task of bringing his daughter to church to be married . |
| 12 | After several more months as a prisoner of war , he escaped again and this time succeeded in making his way to England in a small boat . |
| 13 | In his Macbeth , the Scottish warlord became a Samurai warrior in 16th century Japan , bludgeoning his way to power beneath a cherry tree that rained white blossom down on him . |
| 14 | Following his trip to Europe in October [ see pp. 38526-27 ] Fujimori visited Malaysia , Thailand and Singapore in November . |
| 15 | He also — as a by-product of the grant he made to repay the monks for the loss of their plate following his aid to Rufus in 1095 — provided money for the rebuilding of the cathedral choir on a greatly enlarged scale . |
| 16 | The strike came less than a week after Serbia 's repression of the Kosovar Albanians had been condemned by the minority leader in the United States Senate , Robert Dole , following his visit to Pristina at the head of a delegation of US Republican congressmen . |
| 17 | He claimed that after confessing to them , Newall had planned to flee to Brazil and told police he even thought of shooting his way to freedom after his arrest . |
| 18 | The attendant of a fuming barrow with a torn awning was snapping his fingers , jerking his head to music in his earphones . |
| 19 | Hendry , who has not won a ranking event this season but could well be timing his peak to perfection with the world championship less than six weeks away , followed up with a break of 105 to lead 3-0 . |