Example sentences of "be [verb] to his [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of Leonard 's great joys in his teenage years was a full set of the English poets , bound in leather , which had been given to his father for his Bar Mitzvah . |
| 2 | Sir Nicholas Cayzer , whose baronetcy had been given to his father by Lloyd George , was raised to the peerage by Margaret Thatcher in 1982 . |
| 3 | But their Queen Anne mansion , four-square and elegant , had seldom been occupied since the Revd Lancelot St Albyn , last in the male line , had been carried to his grave at Stringston in 1791 . |
| 4 | Even by the standards of Harry 's yard , Heraldic was no looker , a great , gangling colt with a head and neck that seemed to have been added to his body as an afterthought . |
| 5 | The most recent outrage was the work of Count Orsini , who had been moved to his attempt by the hatred he felt for Napoleon III , whom he blamed for his failure to help the Italian national movement . |
| 6 | ‘ He says you 're to go to his place at sundown . ’ |
| 7 | His failure to do so has been attributed to his association with the ( to some ) dubious professions of wine merchant and journalist , to his supposed Jewishness , his lack of a university education , or even to anti-Surrey bias . |
| 8 | The king married Philippa to Edmund Mortimer Earl of March in 1368 , and thus the earl came to possess not only the Mortimer family lands in the Welsh March which had been restored to his father in 1354 , but also the Clare lordship of Usk , the Clare lands in Dorset , Somerset and East Anglia , and the de Burgh earldom of Ulster . |
| 9 | ‘ Mr Ward said that this was only to be given to his wife in the event of his death , ’ the solicitor said . |
| 10 | Rae 's knowledge that he had no authority to offer the farm for sale is to be imputed to his firm of Macfie and Alexander and to Forster his co-partner in that firm ; |
| 11 | On one occasion when Tolkien tore a ligament playing squash , and was told that he would be confined to his bed for ten weeks , Lewis went to see him — but , as Warnie recorded , he ‘ found Madame [ i.e. Tolkien 's wife ] there , so could not have much conversation with him ’ . |
| 12 | In the days before M and B , there was no 48-hour wonder cure ; the general would be confined to his bed for at least five or six days . |
| 13 | He had been so proud and happy to be returning to his family with the news of his impending marriage , yet now he was leaving home as an outcast . |
| 14 | If he can not stand , the patient might be transferred to his bed before being cleaned , but if he is using a commode , it is usually possible to clean him from under the commode seat , once the pan of the commode has been taken out of the way . |
| 15 | Ashen-faced and gasping for breath , he had to be helped to his car with less than half the course completed . |
| 16 | As Bertram is a contractual entrant , any terms of the contract would have to be brought to his attention at or before , the time when the contract is made . |
| 17 | Another charity to provide bread for the poor was when Reginald Gregory , left 10/ in 1776 , this to be charged to his estate in Halling , Snodland and Paddlesworth . |
| 18 | ‘ ( a ) as of right , from any final judgment of the Court of Appeal where the matter in dispute on the appeal amounts to or is of the value of 5,000 New Zealand dollars or upwards , or where the appeal involves , directly or indirectly , some claim or question to or respecting property or some civil right amounting to or of the value of 5,000 New Zealand dollars or upwards ; and ( b ) at the discretion of the Court of Appeal from any other judgment of that court , whether final or interlocutory , if , in the opinion of that court , the question involved in the appeal is one which by reason of its great general or public importance , or otherwise , ought to be submitted to His Majesty in Council for decision . |
| 19 | This was the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon , who had been appointed to his chair at the age of thirty-two , in the same year that Lewis got his fellowship at Magdalen . |
| 20 | ‘ Both worrying about the troubles of the world and how to cure them , but John 's been talking to his dad about this Spanish business and other things and he 'll work things out soon . ’ |
| 21 | According to Kelly , Fang 's speech , ‘ displayed all the features which were to lead to his purge in 1987 ’ ( Kelly 1987 : 133 ) . |
| 22 | Kohl , on the other hand , will have to live with a politically obtuse gesture that is being compared to his appearance with American President Ronald Reagan , in May 1985 , at a Bitburg cemetery where they laid remembrance wreaths only a few yards from rows of graves of SS soldiers . |
| 23 | Heath sought the advice of seasoned Whitehall figures such as Lord Plowden and Lord Roberthall , who were summoned to his flat in the Albany . |
| 24 | In the course of a day hundreds of packages , grips and suitcases were consigned to his office for safe-keeping , and hundreds more withdrawn . |
| 25 | At this time , Richard Baxter requested the favour of being restored to his flock in Kidderminster . |
| 26 | The red bitch 's jaws were clamped to his leg in an iron grip and she 'd no intention of letting him go . |
| 27 | There were some that were quite valuable , a Churchill , I think , and a Boss , but they were sent to his gunsmith in Glasgow , Peterson and Briggs , and they were sold . |
| 28 | Doug 's rod is fastened to his wrist with a leather strap like a Manilan wallet . |
| 29 | THE thinning man with the single red rose and the worried expression is resigned to his fate as father of the bride . |
| 30 | We have to allow for some license : he is writing to his brother in Paris about this street pick-up and doing his best to make it palatable . |