Example sentences of "[to-vb] his [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | We shall consider words , phrases and sentences which appear in the textual record of a discourse to be evidence of an attempt by a producer ( speaker / writer ) to communicate his message to a recipient ( hearer / reader ) . |
| 2 | The concept 's importance in theoretical terms is that the epic poet catches himself dreaming , and tries to communicate his dream to the rest of the group , through a mythic poem , or a ritual drama . |
| 3 | In Holt the Court of Appeal held that para. ( a ) required the debtor to communicate his decision to the creditor and required that the legal consequence was the extinguishment of the debt . |
| 4 | The King — ( He pushes forward the POISONER/KING tormented by guilt — haunted by fear — decides to despatch his nephew to England — and entrusts his undertaking to two smiling accomplices — friends — courtiers — to two spies — ( He has swung round to bring together the POISONER/KING and the two cloaked TRAGEDIANS ; the latter kneel and accept a scroll from the KING. ) — giving them a letter to present to the English court ! |
| 5 | Meanwhile Gundovald , a supposed son of Chlothar , who had been excluded from the succession in 561 , took advantage of the situation to revive his claim to the crown , which he had already asserted with Byzantine support in 582 . |
| 6 | In January 1547 , when Henry was dying , Rotz sought the help of the French ambassador Odet de Selve to secure his return to France . |
| 7 | A good number of fabliaux advise the husband simply to accept his inferiority to his wife and to allow her to continue to keep the passage of the world smooth ; at the end of Le Chevalier a la robe vermeille , " The Knight with the scarlet robe " , a husband who has surprised his wife and made the compromising discovery of her lover 's horse and robe is hoodwinked by her , and the tale concludes : ( But he who keeps to the right path should believe fully , without dispute , everything that his wife tells him . ) |
| 8 | I chose as my subject the person of the Buddha , tried to relate his teaching to Christians , expressed my deep admiration for him and pleaded for a more tolerant and positive attitude towards the religion which he had founded . |
| 9 | Seth had been defeated by Horus but took legal action to establish his claim to the throne of Osiris by bringing his case before the nine gods of Heliopolis . |
| 10 | Book Seven enhances the impression of a century of civil war , but again allowance must be made for the fact that this one book covers scarcely more than twelve months of 584/5 , and that it is concerned largely with the attempt by the " pretender " Gundovald to establish his claim to the Frankish throne . |
| 11 | In 1299 Boniface VIII ordered Edward to abandon war in Scotland since that kingdom was a papal fief , and he invited Edward to send proctors to Rome to establish his right to the Scottish crown . |
| 12 | Four hundred years later some rabbis even managed to turn Esau 's running to meet his brother to his discredit . |
| 13 | A London spokesman for Mr Bond said yesterday : ‘ He has intended all along to meet his commitment to BSB , and that is still the situation . ’ |
| 14 | He is expected to increase his offer to £5m , but both Hirst and Wednesday are adamant he will not leave . |
| 15 | Larry , 61 , — who played JR in Dallas — reached through a window to pull his neighbour to safety . |
| 16 | He had no alternative but to trust his fortune to fate and the high seas . |
| 17 | He told her he 'd been married once , long ago , but had been so bitterly hurt that , although he loved women , could n't live without them , he had never been prepared to trust his life to one ever again . |
| 18 | The former phrase was coined by Thoreau to indicate his resistance to the laws of the state , and it was the title of an essay by him which Gandhi read after he had started to resist the South African authorities . |
| 19 | In Dante 's Purgatorio XXVI , 117 , Guinicelli points to Arnaut Daniel as ‘ miglior fabbro ’ , an elevation of the other that Eliot appropriated to indicate his indebtedness to Pound . |
| 20 | His aim in this and other speeches was not to indicate his solution to the crisis ( although that was often how his words were heard ) but to make an emotional connection with each of the major parties to the conflict ( the settlers , the Muslims , and the army ) as well as with the population at home . |
| 21 | John was familiar with his ‘ place ’ , as miners called the section of the pit in which they worked , and even in the dark was able to find his way to where a small stream of water leaked from the rock . |
| 22 | Thus the examiner must look at the bottom of the page as well as the top in order to find his way to the new question . |
| 23 | But Llewellyn , as resourceful as his ancestors , gave his pursuers the slip and managed to find his way to the port of New Orleans where he boarded a ship bound for Ireland . |
| 24 | It was not difficult for Lewis to find his way to the Kemps ' home in Cherwell Lodge , the ground-floor flat on the extreme right of the three-storey building , since it was the only window in the whole street , let alone the block of flats , wherein electric light still blazed at a quarter to one that morning . |
| 25 | It has been noted of a pioneer like Arkwright that he had " to train his workpeople to a precision and assiduity altogether unknown before , against which their listless and restless habits rose in continued rebellion " . |
| 26 | His behaviour must match what he says for us to say he has mastered the correct us of the terms he uses , but he does not have to observe his behaviour to be able to say , ‘ I like Auntie Kate . ’ |
| 27 | Now , if we think along these lines then we will be sorely tempted to say that although the child does not have to observe his behaviour to be able to say , ‘ I like Auntie Kate ’ , there is something else he must observe , something inner and private , a ‘ feeling ’ he has somehow identified as a liking-Auntie-Kate feeling . |
| 28 | He had been twenty-one when he died of leukaemia , and I had had to help with his last offices and was then sent to escort his body to the mortuary . |
| 29 | He travelled up to Windermere to view the property and had exploratory discussions with Edgar , who indicated that he wished to retire but preferred to sell his hotel to an individual or small group rather than a national chain . |
| 30 | Josslyn introduced co-operatives to Sligo and became the first landlord in Ireland to sell his land to his tenants after the 1903 Land Act . |