Example sentences of "[vb -s] his [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The clerk , realising from Mirsal 's uniform that I belong to the sacred official class , merely bows his head to the storm , pays up and looks pleasant . |
| 2 | I shall spend the next several years drinking decaffeinated coffee and swapping babygros with other NCT mothers while my partner bores his colleagues to death with intestinal flora between games of squash . |
| 3 | To this latter suggestion , the homosexual can simply reply that he wants his relationship to be a marriage and nothing short of this , and can see no reason to justify the denial of his request . |
| 4 | Generally the reader wants his narrator to be upright , decent , honest , and not prone to the lusts that plague other people — never ourselves . |
| 5 | Usually , in doing so , they set up alternative signals : that this tent , this stretch of street , this canteen , this waiting-room , is where this different kind of artist wants his work to be seen . |
| 6 | But he wants his wife to be safe . |
| 7 | But our God wants His church to be a place where the Holy Spirit is able to increase those three , steadily and thoroughly , and so we can pray with Paul : |
| 8 | He now wants his heirs to be kings as well which goes against the witches prophecy of Banquo 's heirs being kings and not Macbeth 's . |
| 9 | He wants his trees to be happy in their new environment for obvious commercial reasons . |
| 10 | Ask him to write down in a few words what he thinks his present image is , and what he wants his image to be , and he will most likely fail to do it . |
| 11 | Sure but , but is it , well I 'm not sure one could say he wants his ideas to be accepted not necessarily , it 's not a a bid |
| 12 | 3 The attacker now has his back to the defender . |
| 13 | The good leader has his ear to the ground and will know the stage at which real doubts are growing . |
| 14 | Veteran Kirk says he owes his success to his wife |
| 15 | CHRIS KIWOMYA pounced to earn Ipswich a surprise point and then revealed he owes his success to his mother ! |
| 16 | Man owes his existence to the maker of those primitive stone tools , who planted the seed of the human career . |
| 17 | After a two-hour operation , doctors said John , of Kirkby , Merseyside , owes his life to a padded jacket which prevented the jagged metal piercing vital organs . |
| 18 | Yet he owes his life to this man who , in saving him , has sacrificed his hands to frostbite . |
| 19 | Now able to resume his job as a postman , he owes his life to the paramedics . |
| 20 | One of the guards was badly injured , and says he owes his life to her prompt action . |
| 21 | Tom says he owes his life to Joyce , and he ca n't thank her enough . |
| 22 | Ms Hurst knows the boy who owes his life to her kindness simply by his first name , Berend , because of the rules of anonymity governing marrow donations . |
| 23 | ‘ That young bloke undoubtedly owes his life to Mr Kirwan , ’ said Mr Dinsdale , who was called to the scene at about 6.10pm yesterday . |
| 24 | Staff at Gloucester Gaol say the prisoner probably owes his life to his cell mate . |
| 25 | The equipment which saved Ray was bought by the Thame business United Biscuits , and some of the staff who contributed were also at the pub today to meet the man who owes his life to their generosity . |
| 26 | Highkicking Frankie owes his name to Gran |
| 27 | Musgrave owes his reputation to the role he played in the complicated and imperfectly understood politics of the western Anglo-Scottish borders during the 1530s . |
| 28 | He owes his position to the support of his elders , who , like the Russian-trained prime minister , are steeped in the dogmatic authority of central planning . |
| 29 | He owes his allegiance to the school 's director of music and head of the music department , Mr Martin Essex , without whom , he says , he would never be where he is today . |
| 30 | But suddenly , around one minute into the round , the Champ drops his gloves to his sides , exposing his chin , and when his opponent tries to reach it with punches , he pulls his head back and away , just like the Ali we remember , causing the kid to miss by less than an inch . |