Example sentences of "[verb] to his [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Major Henches , another artilleryman ( killed on the Somme that autumn ) found time to write to his wife during the May fighting at Verdun : |
| 2 | At any rate , in the spring of 1905 she had married Bruce in Gore and moved to his farm outside Edendale . |
| 3 | After 1537 Musgrave mostly abandoned Cumberland and moved to his house in London . |
| 4 | In the Nixon-Kissinger years , while there was no direct military intervention against the democratically-elected Marxist government of Salvador Allende , there was certainly a concerted destabilisation programme which contributed to his fall from power . |
| 5 | Manchester United were convinced he was finished four years ago and were happy to let Villa take him — along with the personal problems which also contributed to his departure from Old Trafford . |
| 6 | From here he sent out young men committed to his style of preaching . |
| 7 | It was n't committed to its God and was n't therefore committed to his way of doing things . |
| 8 | Tentative behind-the-scenes suggestions by a minority of Cabinet Ministers that the Government should examine the option of peace without victory were brushed aside when , in December , Lloyd George replaced Asquith as Prime Minister , and formed a new Coalition Government explicitly committed to his policy of imposing unconditional surrender on Germany — ‘ the knock-out blow ’ . |
| 9 | This would appeal to his sense of order , even if he should lose out financially . |
| 10 | Under English law , ordinary passers-by could be required by a constable to come to his assistance in making an arrest , failure to do so being a punishable offence . |
| 11 | One day Mr Brownlow asked him to come to his study for a little talk . |
| 12 | ARMY signalman Philip Cooper had a double Christmas Day surprise when he proposed to his girlfriend on television . |
| 13 | Robbe-Grillet 's insistence upon the essentially ludic dimension of all of his fiction ( and cinema ) was also a means of escaping what might be termed the prison-house of reflexivity ; it was not uncommon to find him distancing himself from Ricardou , even during the conference devoted to his work in 1975 , at which he claimed that even his supposedly ‘ theoretical ’ utterances over the years should be construed as attempts to maintain plurality and mobility . |
| 14 | If she did n't make a stand now he would expect her to jump to his bidding for the rest of the voyage . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He was a large , barrel-chested man in his early forties , his black hair plastered to his skull with hair cream . |
| 17 | His thick straight black hair was parted high on the left and plastered to his skull with hair oil . |
| 18 | Chung Ju Yung , in contrast , responded to his defeat by dismissing suggestions that the UPP would be dissolved . |
| 19 | ( Sir ) Arthur Conan Doyle [ q.v. ] was a medical student in Edinburgh and had been impressed if not inspired by Dr Bell 's professional appearance — ‘ a tall , stately , kindly man , keen eyes and aquiline features contributing to his air of intent investigation . |
| 20 | But Gatting has disappointed hugely , contributing to his downfall in both innings — yesterday picking the wrong ball to sweep after he and Smith were threatening to rally England from 12 for two with a third wicket stand of 59 . |
| 21 | Two days later Eric had flown to Naples , where he borrowed a jeep from a friend of his , an ex-prisoner from Fontanellato who was now ADC to a general at Caserta , and drove to Rome , where he reported to his branch of the Commission . |
| 22 | The bedroom doors of Darlington Hall are of a certain thickness and I could by no means hear complete exchanges ; consequently , it is hard for me now to recall precisely what I overheard , just as , indeed , it was for me later that same evening when I reported to his lordship on the matter . |
| 23 | Von Gallwitz was a talented artillerist , having been the Inspector General of the Field Artillery just before the war , and more recently had added to his lustre in leading the Eleventh Army to victory in Serbia . |
| 24 | In-form Smith , getting through a power of work , could have added to his tally in the final minute . |
| 25 | Even by the standards of Harry 's yard , Heraldic was no looker , a great , gangling colt with a head and neck that seemed to have been added to his body as an afterthought . |
| 26 | Britain 's Jackie Stewart carried on where Clark left off and , had it not been for a decision to retire early , could have dominated the sport longer than he did , and could well have added to his collection of three world titles . |
| 27 | The edginess of the others only added to his opinion of his own rectitude . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Those that he produced for sale through the Redfern Gallery were usually printed in editions of fifty and include Thames-side , Bull Fight , Spain , Tropical Landscape , Horse Guards in their Dressing Rooms at Whitehall and Working Men 's College , this last relating to his association with the Working Men 's College in Crowndale Road , Mornington Crescent , where he gave a lecture , ‘ The Painter 's Intention ’ , in 1952 , taught lithography and also acted as Art Adviser . |
| 30 | The most contentious ideas advanced by Preobrazhensky were those relating to his theory of ‘ primitive socialist accumulation ’ . |