Example sentences of "his [noun sg] to the [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | As early as 1746 he had pondered such a work , writing in his preface to the Ode for Musick on St. Cecilia 's Day of the ‘ fine subject … that is David 's playing to King Saul when he was troubled with the evil Spirit ’ . |
| 2 | Whelan , out with a thigh injury since last September , has made an immediate impact on his return to the midfield for Liverpool , who are unbeaten in their last four games . |
| 3 | Epic were the memories of the subsequent hearty celebrations , with the Hampshire players soaked in ‘ Lordship 's ’ champagne ; with the train back to Southampton ‘ virtually rocked ’ by the near hysterical merrymaking ; with , in a final Wooster-like-oddity , Tennyson having first led his team to the train for Northampton , where , indeed , Warwickshire were playing the next day . |
| 4 | Here you remember that Common Law would not recognize the assignment ; Equity in effect would , by compelling the assignor to lend the use of his name to the assignee for the purpose of suing the debtor , or , in the last resort , allowing the assignee to sue directly against the debtor , but requiring him , as a rule , to make the assignor a defendant . |
| 5 | The former Great Britain stand off , who has 14 caps , has had an injury-dogged career and delayed his start to the season for a fortnight , while contemplating retirement . |
| 6 | Now the row has burst into the open round the broad shoulders of Monsignor Bruce Kent , threatening to blast the career of that redoubtable cleric by forcing him into an invidious choice between his cloth and his commitment to the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament ( CND ) . |
| 7 | On a recent visit to WACC in London , he explained how his release from 17 months of brutal imprisonment under the dictator Duvalier in the mid-1970s had led him to devote his life to the struggle for justice and democracy in Haiti . |
| 8 | JOHN Trussler , the president of the Chartered Institute of Building renewed his call to the Chancellor for a Builders ' Budget while in Darlington yesterday . |
| 9 | Each day after school he would wend his way to the synagogue for instruction in the sacred scriptures , the stories and history of his people , which reached its climax in 1946 , when Leonard was made ‘ A son of the law ’ . |
| 10 | He staggers and bumps his way to the toilet for a cold wash and rough up with some semi-absorbent paper towels , all the while discovering and tweeking out small splinters of wood and metal from his face . |
| 11 | In sending his contribution to the fund for Benjamin Haydon , Sir Walter Scott apologized for its smallness , but he had been ‘ a little extravagant lately ’ . |
| 12 | Directed by Tony Hegarty For one night only , prior to opening in London , Commonwheal ‘ Exciting and revelatory … a true ensemble ’ Daily Mail , bring their new version of Marlowe 's classic tale of a man who sells his soul to the devil for knowledge and power . |