Example sentences of "his [noun sg] to [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Waldemar Pawlak , appointed Prime Minister after the fall of the Olszewski government on June 5 [ see p. 38972 ] , offered his resignation to the Sejm on July 2 after his failure to form a government . |
| 2 | Bhattarai tendered his resignation to the King on May 14 but was asked to stay in office until the formation of a new Cabinet . |
| 3 | EDWARD HEATH LEAVES 10 DOWNING STREET ON 4TH MARCH 1974 TO PRESENT HIS RESIGNATION TO THE QUEEN AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE . |
| 4 | Sharon formally submitted his resignation to the Cabinet on Feb. 18 , and it became effective two days later . |
| 5 | Lloyd George announced his resignation to the Commons on 17 March in a speech that was close to tears , and the reaction of Unionist MPs was equally emotional , testament to Law 's great standing in his party . |
| 6 | Could it be that he was aware of Van Butchell 's intentions and saw this as a means of bringing his technique to the notice of the public , being able , at the same time , to lay any charge of indecency at Van Butchell 's door , if it arose ? |
| 7 | Doctors gave his liver to a 15-year-old boy , his kidneys to a 43-year-old mother of two and a man of 60 , his heart to a woman of 45 , and both lungs to a woman of 47 . |
| 8 | But apart from hunting , he seems to have left the business of government to his earls , although he continued to enjoy the society of churchmen , especially of foreign churchmen , gave his heart to the building of Westminster Abbey , engaged in the royal works of mercy , stood meekly through divine office and mass , and — a special note of conscientiousness — ‘ at these times , unless he was addressed , he rarely spoke to anyone ’ . |
| 9 | Guillem , or Guillaume de Cabestanh , or Cabestaing , or Cabestan , had loved the lady of Roussillon , Soremonde , Sermonde , or Marguerite , wife of the seigneur Raymond of Roussillon , who , in a fit of jealous rage , had the troubadour slaughtered and had served his heart to the lady in a dish . |
| 10 | Rassendyll accepts the plan in a spirit of adventure and with some reluctance sacrifices his beard to the need of the moment ( a practical detail which helps veracity at the right time ) . |
| 11 | It ‘ betrayed ’ Isildur to the arrows of the orcs ; it ‘ abandoned ’ Gollum , says Gandalf , in response to the ‘ dark thought from Mirkwood ’ of its master ; it all but betrays Frodo in the Prancing Pony when it slips on to his finger and proves his invisibility to the spies for the Nazgûl then present . |
| 12 | To Isobel 's surprise he went beetroot red , flushing from the collar of his shirt to the roots of his now receding hair . |
| 13 | Before that he was suspended from the national team for a year after a clash with coach Henri Michel , punished for fighting with team-mates at Auxerre and Montpelier and fined for throwing his shirt to the ground at Marseille when substituted . |
| 14 | ‘ … the purchaser can not avoid his liability to the auctioneer by paying the vendor direct without telling the auctioneer . |
| 15 | Between 1341 and 1343 Dušan gave his support to a claimant to the Byzantine throne , John Cantacuzenus , whose daughter married the Ottoman ruler Orhan . |
| 16 | Christina saw her husband gradually relax and begin to enjoy himself , tapping his foot to the strains of a calypso floating towards them from the dance-floor on the piazza outside . |
| 17 | His concession to the warmth of the room has been to take off his topmost cardigan . |
| 18 | In a statement on April 22 designed to convince a visiting fact-finding mission from the Organization of American States ( OAS ) [ see below ] of his democratic intent , he promised to submit his decision to a plebiscite on July 5 , and pledged that proposed constitutional reforms would also be subjected to the popular vote on Aug. 31 . |
| 19 | And he accused Mr Clarke of being ‘ cruel ’ in not revealing his decision to the family before holding a Press conference . |
| 20 | His vision was indissolubly linked with the social and economic life of Brazil in the Sixties and the exhibition illustrates Oiticica 's brief but complex career , showing his fidelity to the theme of the human body and its relationship to space and objects . |
| 21 | He remained a JP but his other public employments terminated , and he sold his reversion to a tellership to his half-brother Edmund . |
| 22 | 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 ’ . |
| 23 | The Bishop however informed him that he had no vacancy for a chaplain — a refusal which Tyndale never forgave : in his Preface to the translation of the Five Books of Moses , where he describes the incident , there is a marginal note , ‘ Room in my Lord 's house for belly-cheer but none to translate the New Testament . ’ |
| 24 | Alexander Pope wrote , in his preface to The Rape of the Lock ( 1712 ) : |
| 25 | In 1947 , Tawney in his preface to The future in Adult Education , raised many of the post-war problems facing the WEA in a changing society . |
| 26 | In his preface to The Castle of Otranto , Walpole states that Shakespeare is the model for his domestics , and that , although their simplicity may excite smiles , it is drawn from nature . |
| 27 | Yet I believe this new understanding must be included in the account , for as Blacking ( 1977 : vii ) pointed out in his preface to the Anthropology of the Body : |
| 28 | He owed his election to the bishopric of Coventry and Lichfield , in the January of that year ( his consecration followed in March 1258 ) , to the influence of the king 's brother , Richard , Earl of Cornwall [ q.v . ] . |
| 29 | This threat held serious consequences for the government of Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa , as support from the Takeshita faction had been an essential ingredient in his election to the leadership of the party , and was generally seen as essential to his continued survival in the post . |
| 30 | He had been sufficiently interested in imperial issues to drift into the Round Table orbit some time after his election to the House of Commons in 1910 ; and by 1916 his claims to employment were being urged on Milner at the War Office by the Round Table guru F.S. Oliver , who put him unambiguously in a class by himself , above Amery , Brand and Kerr , at the top of his list for preferment . |