Example sentences of "his [adj] [noun sg] to [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Gorbachev again the reluctant guest of honour : Rupert Cornwell , our Moscow correspondent , who accompanied Mikhail Gorbachev on his momentous trip to Peking in May , considers the possible parallels with East Berlin |
| 3 | After making peace Alexander appeared to move in the direction of reform , but his celebrated speech to marshals of the Moscow gentry needs to be set in context . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | JEALOUS Jason Osborne bludgeoned his sleeping brother to death with a mallet in a row over girls , a court heard yesterday . |
| 6 | He was still surrounded by woman , of course , mostly fat ones receiving Mud 's beauty treatment and so his early life was dominated by the female presence rather than the male which may help explain his future attitude to women for which flocks of emerging feminists , and a few of his friends , would berate him . |
| 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 | Joachim Müncheberg , outstanding commander of 7 Staffel , Jagdgeschwader 26 , who led his little unit to Sicily in February 1941 , to operate over Malta ; these were the first Messerschmitt Bf109E fighters to operate anywhere in the Mediterranean war zone . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | John tells his moving story to members of the Darlington Lecture Association next week . |
| 12 | Now 33 , Tabkay told of his gradual approach to Buddhism from his days as a student at university in Norwich . |
| 13 | The England international was given permission to make his late dash to London for tonight 's Coca-Cola Cup replay as his family is suffering from a virus . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | We were also lucky enough to find Goutama , whom I remembered as a young syce in the Legation stables when I was a boy ; he had accompanied my father on his long trek to Nairobi in 1914 . |
| 17 | It appears from them that at the time of their earlier meeting , presumably during his long visit to England in 1086 , Gunhilda had been captivated by his talk , and he by her attachment : |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | And after his successful return to management at Ipswich , he guided them into the Premier League before moving ‘ upstairs ’ at Portman Road this summer . |
| 20 | By July 22-23 the renewed offensive mounted by the Shining Path in Lima — in the form of further car bombs in the capital , together with calls for a general strike — was sufficiently serious for President Alberto Fujimori to cancel his planned trip to Europe for the Ibero-American summit [ see p. 39003 ] . |
| 21 | In these letters to Harry he frequently mentions his excessive response to beauty in men , women , and children . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | A team from the Bureau 's anti-terrorist squad flew out from Quantico , Virginia , a week beforehand to take charge of the arrangements and Hamadan placed his final call to Younis in Beirut , telling him to drop everything and come at once . |
| 24 | It was a strange coincidence that he made his final sailing to America on the day that his closest friend , Mr Huddlestone , was buried . |
| 25 | The reason ; what they see as his dictatorial attitude to parking in the High Street . |
| 26 | He had written telling them about his recent marriage to Rachel in Sydney , but he had n't given any address or any details of the wedding . |
| 27 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 28 | The threat of criminal prosecution for a sexual offence would explain his flight and his pathetic submission to criticism of his endeavours . |
| 29 | He tears his past life to pieces with the ferocity of the convert . |
| 30 | Mike Curb , who has built up one of the most successful privately-owned record companies and recently moved his head office to Nashville from Los Angeles , thinks country is well on its way to being a big part of mainstream pop — making a nonsense of the current radio-station categories that still set country apart . |