Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] to his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A NURSE who had to learn to walk again after his neck was broken has hit out at the prison sentence given to his attacker . |
| 2 | It is necessary first to consider an argument which has throughout been presented by the Attorney-General as decisive ; namely , that the answer to this question must inevitably be negative because the district judge had no power , or no power that he could properly exercise , to do anything other than proceed with the cases assigned to his court , without any regard at all to the pendency of the B.M.F.L. prosecution , destined for committal to the High Court . |
| 3 | All our sympathy goes to his wife , and family . |
| 4 | A YOUNG bungee jumper plunged to his death — after forgetting to attach the rope . |
| 5 | At the other end of the table from Dowd , sitting in front of a heap of newspapers doubtless carrying the Burke reports , sat a professorial man in his sixties , white hair oiled to his scalp . |
| 6 | The local authority 's decision to agree to his application was an admission that they had been wrong all the time . |
| 7 | Another £1,000 goes to his friend , Burger , to buy himself a pair of spectacles . ’ |
| 8 | The dark hair clung to his forehead and his body was flushed and glistening and bathed in the dull crimson glow . |
| 9 | His brown , nearly auburn hair clung to his scalp as if with misery , sad eyes stared out of a freckled face , his hands were clenched tight . |
| 10 | Foucault 's work also offers a series of difficulties , in part relating to his lack of concern with those issues that precisely engage the other approaches : individual meanings and psychological structuring . |
| 11 | Andy leads off up large , friable flakes , hair plastered to his head but now mercifully sheltered . |
| 12 | Within a few days he was a pitiful sight , white-faced with huge puffy red-rimmed eyes , his thin hair plastered to his head with sweat and the comfortable roundness of his baby tummy melted away . |
| 13 | He was a large , barrel-chested man in his early forties , his black hair plastered to his skull with hair cream . |
| 14 | In 1931 , at the age of 26 , Nizan referred to his family as an insubstantial presence resting as lightly on his shoulders as " the wind and the dust of the dead " . |
| 15 | He wanted to take me out in his boat to see to his lobster pots , only I was too scared of the sea . |
| 16 | A series of failed ventures based on his hobbies of collecting classic sports cars and aircraft led to his downfall . |
| 17 | His father , Robert Robinson , 58 , of Sidney Street , Saltcoats , claimed that an injection given to his son in hospital by a senior doctor killed him and if he had been sent to the neurosurgery unit at the Southern General in Glasgow he would have still been alive . |
| 18 | But then he gave up concert performances to retire to his home in Texas . |
| 19 | Chelsea midfielder Dennis Wise sprinted to his defence last night and turned against their own supporters after a couple of them had complained to police that the United boss had sworn and made a V-sign . |
| 20 | Bell also took exception to the briefing provided by the task force assigned to his department . |
| 21 | Mr Thompson , sen , had been receiving sickness and invalidity benefit — about £93 a week — for the effects of a 1988 gunshot wound to his side after he was shot in the street as he walked home . |
| 22 | Then , setting up in practice on his own c .1806 , he was employed at Heaton Hall , Lancashire , where both James and Samuel had worked previously ; and on Samuel 's death in 1807 he completed two of his commissions , Tatton Park , Cheshire , and Hackwood Park , Hampshire , and in effect succeeded to his practice in the Cheshire area . |
| 23 | As he thought of them actually screwing — of Maisie winding her arms round him , hitching her legs over his , pumping up and down , up and down — the blood rose to his face . |
| 24 | Gandhi 's concept of Religion corresponds to his concept of Truth . |
| 25 | We have seen that for him religion corresponds to his concept of Truth ; it is what binds man to Truth . |
| 26 | The unpredictability and inexplicability of his action added to his terror as well as to hers . |
| 27 | Thus although Y owes X the duties which an agent owes to his principal , it is Y who as seller can sue Z for the price and be sued by Z for breach of the contract of sale . |
| 28 | Head and body felt disconnected and the foul taste in his mouth seemed to his waking mind a symptom of some terrible decay creeping over him from within . |
| 29 | Then again , in a later speech , the president warmed to his theme : ‘ You can not help but feel that the great Pacific basin — with all its nations and all its potential for growth and development — that is the future . ’ |
| 30 | , Sir Richard ( c. 1615–1690 ) , Royalist soldier and conspirator , was the second son of Richard Willys , of Fen Ditton , Cambridgeshire , a manor granted to his grandfather Thomas Willys by James I in 1605 . |