Example sentences of "his [noun sg] to the [noun sg] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jon , 35 , was playing detective again at a London club in readiness for his return to The Bill as Mike Dashwood . |
| 2 | Baldwin had a profound distaste for those who had made money out of the war and in 1919 he made an anonymous donation of part of his wealth to the nation as his personal sacrifice ; Neville Chamberlain was greatly affected by the death of his cousin Norman and determined that such sacrifice should not be wasted . |
| 3 | His military capacities , demonstrated in Morocco during the 1920s , were well known and respected , and his importance to the conspiracy as the designated commander of the Army of Africa was central . |
| 4 | Having obtained a papal dispensation , Philip , duke of Burgundy , forsook his support of the settlement made at Troyes and , hence , too , his allegiance to the English as rulers of France . |
| 5 | Not in day-to-day practice , perhaps , but by Trent 's accepting his relationship to the Colonel as an inevitable part of his life . |
| 6 | The chaplain , crouched on a stool near the fireplace , stared into the flames wringing his hands whilst Rastani , the silent , dark servant , sat with his back to the wall as if he wished the very stones would open and swallow him . |
| 7 | He is quietly working his way to the top as a referee — and he is just 18 months away from landing his first League fixture . |
| 8 | Given the Emperor 's dislike of Orléanism as a political creed and his aversion to the family as a whole , there was no possibility that he would willingly consent to the establishment of an Orléanist King on the Spanish throne — an event which it was feared might well raise hope among French Orléanists of a restoration of the dynasty in France . |
| 9 | Even in the early 1980s , the press saw his adherence to the theme as one more idea to mock . |