Example sentences of "[prep] his [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | After his ordination to the priesthood by the Cardinal Vicar for Rome ( May 1899 ) , Eugenio himself studied law and then entered the Congregation for Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs ( now the Council for the Public Affairs of the Church ) , which handled relations between the Holy See and civil governments . |
| 2 | When Jesus appeared after his resurrection to his disciples in Galilee , he told them , ‘ I have been given all authority in heaven and on earth . ’ |
| 3 | These studies continued , with increasing sophistication , after his return to Europe in 1966 as Professor of Anatomy at the new Erasmus University in Rotterdam . |
| 4 | Edward acknowledges her effect on him in a letter — one of numerous happy , affectionate letters to ‘ My dearest Friend ’ — from his lodgings at 113 Cowley Road , Oxford , 29 January 1898 ( the third of his letters to her after his return to Oxford for the Lent Term ) : Take care of yourself my dearest friend . |
| 5 | Shortly after his return to England , Mark received an invitation to address an all-party Committee of Members of Parliament . |
| 6 | Linnaeus respected Miller 's work and corresponded with him after his return to Europe ; there are ten letters from Chelsea in the Linnaean collection covering the period from 1752 to 1768 . |
| 7 | Later , after his return to his native city of Basle , he obtained similar material from other cells , mostly the spermatozoa ( again cells containing little else except nuclei ) of salmon caught in the Rhine outside the window of his laboratory . |
| 8 | On the morning after his return to Jesus College , Coleridge paused to look about the room from which he had been absent since June , and to record his state of mind in a letter to Southey : |
| 9 | He discovered soon after his return to the city that she had refused two offers of marriage — one from a wealthy suitor — on the strength of the promise made to him at Bath , and that she continued to love him ‘ with an affection to the ardor of which my Deserts bear no proportion ’ . |
| 10 | Lowe visited the island several times after his return to Britain , and in 1874 he and his wife were lost at sea when the SS Liberia sank en route for Madeira . |
| 11 | After his return to England , however , his keenly Anglican Parliament caused the Declaration to be withdrawn . |
| 12 | It must have been written after his return to England in January 1120 , and probably not long after this date . |
| 13 | In practice , the count 's absence in St Gilles and Provence allowed the boni homines gradually to accumulate powers and the town to acquire liberties , to a degree that shocked Raymond V after his return to the city in 1180 . |
| 14 | After his return to England , he explained to Dorothy Pound that her husband needed somehow to be calmed down . |
| 15 | And , after his return to England at the beginning of the year , he was forced to catch up with all the work he had neglected . |
| 16 | After his return to the ward Mr Reynolds ' temperature rose slowly until it reached 37 C. On the first post-operative morning his temperature was above normal limits ( 37.8 C ) . |
| 17 | Now both Nehru and Nu visited Ho Chi Minh soon after his return to Hanoi . |
| 18 | Macmillan himself provided tow further lengthy reports on the discussions , after his return to Caserta . |
| 19 | After his return to Ireland MacBride secured a minor post as water bailiff for Dublin corporation . |
| 20 | After his return to England in 1827 he worked with his brother Henry Rome Stutchbury ( 1796–1853 ) , a dealer in natural history specimens , until in 1831 he was appointed curator of the museum of the Bristol Institution . |
| 21 | Three years after his return to railway work he became deputy chief mechanical engineer of the newly formed London , Midland and Scottish Railway in 1923 and two years later succeeded George Hughes as chief mechanical engineer . |
| 22 | Any assessment of Hickey 's career and of his personality is almost entirely dependent on a single source provided by the subject himself , the 742 pages of memoirs which Hickey wrote shortly after his return to Britain . |
| 23 | Soon after his return to England , he was made one of the three commissioners of the Privy Seal , a post he held until the appointment of Arthur Annesley , first Earl of Anglesey [ q.v. ] , as lord privy seal in 1673 superseded the commission . |
| 24 | Although he was not restored to the bench after his return to the county , he remained an influential figure in local politics . |
| 25 | After his return to England , Buddicom became a JP and high sheriff of Flintshire ( 1864 ) . |
| 26 | After his return to England he was articled to H. E. Kendall , and practised as an architect in London , at Victoria Square , Grosvenor Place . |
| 27 | Precise information on his death is lacking , but it seems to have occurred about four years after his return to England from Amsterdam in 1602 . |
| 28 | After his return to England , he was involved in the interrogation of François Barthélemy , the former French chargé d'affaires in Britain , who fled from France in 1799 . |
| 29 | Despite the lack of specific commitments in the Palm Springs talks , Kaifu came under harsh parliamentary criticism after his return to Japan , for making what were termed unilateral promises to the USA without obtaining US undertakings in return . |
| 30 | The possibility of an increase in Japanese interest rates was raised , but seemed to be ruled out for the present by the Finance Minister , Ryutaro Hashimoto , in a statement made after his return to Tokyo . |