Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] to his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If at any time after a person has been charged with or informed he may be prosecuted for an offence a police officer wishes to bring to the notice of that person any written statement made by another person or the content of an interview with another person , he shall hand to that person a true copy of any such written statement or bring to his attention the content of the interview record , but shall say or do nothing to invite any reply or comment save to caution him in the terms of paragraph 10.4 above . |
| 2 | Dr Mumby said , ‘ It would be a waste of time taking Mr Royan 's blood pressure or listening to his chest . |
| 3 | What about might be going out with his mum or something , or going to his gran 's . |
| 4 | There was only one person to whom Jerome would be reporting with so much fervour ; Bénezet , naturally curious about anything that might serve his turn or redound to his profit , was not averse to picking up a few crumbs of useful information by the way . |
| 5 | Sometimes his route to the nearest safe place involved scrambling over loose rock , or entailed ladder climbing to escape from a stope , with his only source of light a guttering candle held in the hand , or stuck to his hat with a blob of clay . |
| 6 | But Mansell , who has clashed verbally and physically with the triple champion said : ‘ My boss Frank Williams has told me he ca n't stop people like Ayrton phoning him or coming to his room . |
| 7 | Mrs Marcos may believe that America still has the final say in Philippine affairs ; after all , America persuaded her husband to call the election that led to his downfall in 1986 . |
| 8 | The other thing — and it was this , he averred , that led to his downfall — was that the wizard was covering his eyes with one hand . |
| 9 | And it was that habit of speaking his mind that led to his downfall . |
| 10 | The King graciously stood godfather ; the baby of course was named George and was given a silver bowl inscribed ‘ The gift of His Majesty King George to his godson , George Lamb , Anno Dom 1725 ’ A story has grown up from this — for years I thought it was true — that Henry James saw this bowl — it had become by legend , golden — and the sight was the seed that led to his novel , The Golden Bowl . |
| 11 | The particular incident that led to his removal was apparently as follows . |
| 12 | He advised the ministry of munitions on matters concerning chemical warfare , and it was chiefly these wartime contributions that led to his baronetcy in 1922 . |
| 13 | It was symptomatic rather than part of the train of thought that led to his decision : Britain , as a great power , could not leave her security in the hands of the Americans , who , however friendly , could veer so unpredictably from generous international collaboration to self-centred isolationism . |
| 14 | Perhaps his most popular work , the Turangalîla-symphonie , was a commission from Koussevitzky , fusing his rich and instantly identifiable harmonic language with complex Hindu rhythms : it was his study of the latter that led to his formulation of ‘ total ’ serialism , first seen in his Studies in Rhythm of 1949 . |
| 15 | It was Cantona 's exclusion by Leeds against Arsenal that led to his shock transfer last week . |
| 16 | Ten minutes later Father Poole walked painfully , with the aid of his stick , up the steep deserted street that led to his church . |
| 17 | When she reached the wide passage that led to his apartment she hesitated . |
| 18 | In so doing he triggered a theological storm that led to his resignation . |
| 19 | He returned to St Bartholomew 's and Moorfields Eye Hospital , London , in 1979 to research hyperlipidaemias that led to his MD . |
| 20 | The three principal figures in his demonology proved to be the Shah , Israel and the United States , and in a sermon against this trio in March 1963 he had done much to trigger the disturbances of that summer and the process that led to his banishment to Najaf in Iraq . |
| 21 | It was the last , far more trivial act , that led to his execution , rather than the brutal killing which would not otherwise have attracted the death penalty . |
| 22 | He shouted at the men in the cockpit to make fast the rope that led to his neck . |
| 23 | Glumly , Henry carried his coffee along the dark corridor towards the stairs that led to his office . |
| 24 | He cut a little caper as he walked along the corridor that led to his office , recovering a quality that had suddenly become important to him — his drabness . |
| 25 | His interest in the precedents is exhausted , for this purpose at least , once he is satisfied that according to his conception of law they establish only that mothers at the scene have a right to recover , and this is clear immediately and with no reflection about larger underlying principles whose nature is a matter of dispute . |
| 26 | To belabour the point of whether or not he had knocked would only make her sound shrewish , and she did n't want that added to his list of uncomplimentary adjectives , along with brash and brassy ! |
| 27 | Within this environment , he is a fully competent social performer and has an adequate knowledge of the rules and conditions that pertain to his behaviour . |
| 28 | There was no sign , other than the winking of a small green light , that the aircraft that reverted to his control . |
| 29 | It gave him that Vogue -ish look that belonged to his life as an international racing star . |
| 30 | One of these was that he would not benefit from anything that belonged to his wife before their marriage . |