Example sentences of "his [adj] [noun sg] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his first televised address since the end of the Gulf War , French President Mitterrand on March 3 issued his clearest call to date for an independent Palestinian state . |
| 2 | He is determined to lead his injury-stricken outfit to victory in France for the first time in 22 years and last night insisted : ‘ I 've had to fight for respect in rugby league . |
| 3 | MIGHTY MOGUL yesterday cruised through his toughest test to date with a tremendously impressive victory in the Christmas Hurdle at Kempton . |
| 4 | The former high class hurdler has not come off the bridle to record two effortless chasing victories and , although this is his stiffest task to date over fences , he should have little difficulty in completing the hat-trick . |
| 5 | He announced at the beginning of that year that ‘ if Hitler had worn a dhoti he could have mistaken his mystical approach to life for that of Mr Gandhi ’ . |
| 6 | JEALOUS Jason Osborne bludgeoned his sleeping brother to death with a mallet in a row over girls , a court heard yesterday . |
| 7 | She was threatened , and the primitive male instinct to protect what was his brought his entire body to battle-readiness within seconds . |
| 8 | Dr Berisha , a 47-year-old cardiologist who led his Democratic Party to victory in legislative elections last month , becomes Albania 's first non-communist President . |
| 9 | God in the middle contending for the world , a man on his left choosing to side with the Evil One till the last , and on the right a thief who with his last gasp offered his broken solidarity back to God for healing and restoration . |
| 10 | Now 33 , Tabkay told of his gradual approach to Buddhism from his days as a student at university in Norwich . |
| 11 | In 1604 James I of England published his famous Counterlaste to Tobacco in which he made what was probably the earliest statement on the effects of smoling on gastric secretion : ‘ … and by causing over quick digestion , fill the stomach full of crudites . ’ |
| 12 | His firm commitment to flexibilIty in the education of deaf people contributed significantly to the surging emancipation of deaf children everywhere from the yoke of generations of denial . |
| 13 | This chapter draws extensively on a paper jointly written with Michael Griffiths — Griffiths and Johnston ( 1991 ) — and his substantial contribution to development of the ideas in it is fully and gratefully acknowledged . |
| 14 | And after his successful return to management at Ipswich , he guided them into the Premier League before moving ‘ upstairs ’ at Portman Road this summer . |
| 15 | The prisoner is serving life for blasting his former girlfriend to death with a sawn-off shotgun because she knew too much about his underworld dealings . |
| 16 | His own rise to fame at club level had demonstrated the superiority of management by one man over management by a group , but the England team was still selected by a dozen officials ‘ expressing their views as to the merits of players without proper regard to blend and balance ’ . |
| 17 | In these letters to Harry he frequently mentions his excessive response to beauty in men , women , and children . |
| 18 | It was against this troubled background that Truman presented his 21-point programme to Congress in September 1945 — the programme later known as the Fair Deal . |
| 19 | The reason ; what they see as his dictatorial attitude to parking in the High Street . |
| 20 | The latest round on the Church Bridge length of the Trent and Mersey Canal at Rugeley saw Steve Collins ( Team Uniprint ) gain his best win to date with 4–5–10 of ruffe to beat his team mate , Tony Keeling , on 3–3–4 . |
| 21 | The 24-year-old , runner-up in the recent Welsh Amateur Championship , scored his best win to date by two strokes from MacPherson , when at one stage it looked as if he would miss the cut . |
| 22 | ‘ The Crown 's case is that on the morning of 31 October , 1991 , in a storeroom at the rear of their home , he clubbed his young wife to death with a lump hammer . ’ |
| 23 | The threat of criminal prosecution for a sexual offence would explain his flight and his pathetic submission to criticism of his endeavours . |
| 24 | However , he has his easiest task to date at Lingfield and can gain a confidence-boosting victory in the Marsh Green Maiden . |
| 25 | His subsequent rise to power as the charismatic leader of Britain 's ‘ war socialism ’ provides the best illustration of the tendency for left and right-wing collectivism to converge around a nationalist economics utterly alien to the Cobdenite traditions of the pacifists . |