Example sentences of "[vb base] to his [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But most killers are not homicidal maniacs and the victim contributes much more than a mere coincidence of time and place to his own fate . |
| 2 | Much will depend on how the parties react to his own proposals , foreshadowed in an important speech in Liverpool last month and to be discussed with Dick Spring tomorrow . |
| 3 | Then he would go to his study and attend to his own writing , characteristically composing straight onto the typewriter and standing at a kind of lectern . |
| 4 | These myths mostly trace to his own misleading reminiscences later in life , and have been relentlessly reaffirmed since , at the 1959 centennial symposia for example and in the 1978 BBC-TV series on Darwin ; but they are nonetheless discredited by the scholarly industry now grown up around the rich manuscript archive from Darwin 's early years ( Kohn , 1986 ) . |
| 5 | for delivering it from one part of his premises to another part of his premises , or for delivering it from his premises to the premises of , or between parts of premises of , another manufacturer or repairer of or dealer in mechanically propelled vehicles or removing it from the premises of another manufacturer or repairer of or dealer in mechanically propelled vehicles direct to his own premises ; |
| 6 | She heard him climb out of bed , and go to his own room . |
| 7 | He revived the legend of the prophecy of Jayabhaya ( reigned 1135 — 57 ) who foretold that the Pringi ( Feringhi , Europeans ) would conquer Java but that ‘ the prince of Kling ’ would send armies to drive them out and then , after five years , ‘ return to his own country ’ . |
| 8 | Atiyah 's doubts about this trend in late-twentieth-century family law relate to his own model of law as serving conflict-adjustment and hortatory functions , and to his concern for ‘ the generality and universality which the very nature of law seems to require ’ . |
| 9 | If all Preston 's childhood friends had lined up against a wall , as when they were waiting to be picked for football , Preston would most likely have left William to pretty near the end and then put him at left back , or somewhere he would do the least damage to his own side . |