Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [verb] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His face had grown so thin that as he spoke you could plainly see the elaborate machinery of his jaw setting to work with all its strings , sockets and pulleys . |
| 2 | His case came to hinge on one point . |
| 3 | Sunderland defender Anton Rogan is linking-up with the squad after his club bowed to pressure from the Irish FA that they have first call on him under FIFA 's World Cup rules . |
| 4 | Ramos further stated that the policy was based on a desire on the part of his administration to contribute to solidarity within the Association of South East Asian States ( ASEAN ) and to peace and stability within the region . |
| 5 | After a few days the household would be creeping around ‘ not to disturb Dad ’ who was sulking in his room bored to death with his family , and the children would be trying to comfort a depressed and weeping Mum who had so looked forward to her handsome popular brilliant husband 's return and did n't know what she had done wrong . |
| 6 | Twiceover Micky will be there , for I know he likes it , leaving it until tomorrow night to preside over the first night of The Hamburg Ballet , one of the great ballet companies of the world , which he has sold his soul and what else only his God knows to cajole to Belfast , its first-ever visit to these islands . |
| 7 | Our earliest known inhabitant , " Hailing Man " , is now securely dated by the radiocarbon method to about 2000 B.C. His skeleton came to light in August 1912 when workmen were excavating for a sewage tank behind the railway station . |
| 8 | Taylor was one of the men who was supposed to be responsible for cleaning up Hollywood , but as the sordid details of his life came to light during the murder investigation , Will Hays , knowing he could trust no one in the movie business , placed spies everywhere . |
| 9 | Further to the question from my right hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) , and given the obvious confusion among Ministers about the implications of their electoral promises for the future level of value added tax , can the Leader of the House conjure up the actual figure for value added tax when his Government came to office in June 1979 , and the level now as they go out of office ? |
| 10 | When we went into his room , God was lying on his bed listening to music on the radio . |
| 11 | FIREFIGHTERS rescued a pensioner from an upstairs bedroom after his daughter jumped to safety from their blazing home . |
| 12 | Then player manager Brian Flynn latched on to a Mark Taylor pass on the edge of the penalty area but his shot rebounded to safety off the inside of the post . |
| 13 | Djilas did not at this stage of his analysis refer to bureaucracy as a class , though he recognized that it had exclusive control of production and distribution and that it expropriated the economic surplus for itself at the expense of the ‘ direct producers ’ . |
| 14 | ( Incidentally , during the Fontainebleau conference Ho had called on the US Ambassador in Paris to assure him that he and his party aspired to independence in the French Union and that he was not a communist . ) |
| 15 | But writing now was not easy for him : he had begun to suffer with arthritis in the year following his retirement , and had had to give up his violin owing to lack of flexibility of his fingers , and as the condition developed , he found writing more and more difficult . |