Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] to his [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a prompt date , a member 's matching open contracts for that date ( where he has not indicated an intention to make or take delivery of metal ) are automatically settled against one another by LCH and the resulting price differences are posted to his account . |
| 2 | One of Leonard 's great joys in his teenage years was a full set of the English poets , bound in leather , which had been given to his father for his Bar Mitzvah . |
| 3 | Sir Nicholas Cayzer , whose baronetcy had been given to his father by Lloyd George , was raised to the peerage by Margaret Thatcher in 1982 . |
| 4 | His Sunday duties are arranged to his disadvantage , and the example of one or two others , is not , likely to be lost on his brother officers at the station . |
| 5 | It was true , they thought , still looking at him : he was a married man who went homo-ing about , who had been exposed to his wife when Timothy Gedge was drunk . |
| 6 | Belfast councillor John Carson has been reported to his North Belfast Unionist Constituency Association over allegations that he verbally assaulted party member Fred Proctor . |
| 7 | But their Queen Anne mansion , four-square and elegant , had seldom been occupied since the Revd Lancelot St Albyn , last in the male line , had been carried to his grave at Stringston in 1791 . |
| 8 | His only remarks had been addressed to his mother , who sat beside him . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Zoser , as rigid as Andrus and far less intelligent , had taken it upon himself to put right the wrong which had been done to his friend and his church . |
| 11 | J. Anderson Black ( alias Gordon M. Williams ) was not amused by what had been done to his novel . |
| 12 | Many of the specimen trees which are still in the park were almost certainly planted by Webb at the time , and the elegant arched orangery in the garden must have been built to his designs . |
| 13 | A promontory on the south side of Sydney 's waterfront which was part of John 's 190 acre estate is still called Piper Point and streets in the district are named to his memory . |
| 14 | On the basis of his behaviour , therefore , we have reason to maintain that Fido believes that bones are related to his desires or preferences in the following way : Bones satisfy certain desires he has and are to be chosen to satisfy those desires . |
| 15 | Not all of this man 's behaviour has yet been revealed , of course , but I can assure you that there is one incident to come which in itself justifies almost any degree of the pain that has so far been applied to his brain and his skin and his bones . |
| 16 | When the King 's Declarations were finally published , Richard Baxter was pleasantly surprised to find that some important concessions had been made to his position . |
| 17 | It 's alleged John Baillie shot the victim twice in the back after threats had been made to his family . |
| 18 | A day later he claimed that he had been the victim of a dirty tricks campaign , saying that his house had been under surveillance and that a carefully organized smear campaign had been waged against him , apparently concerning loans alleged to have been made to his petfood company several years previously . |
| 19 | The most recent outrage was the work of Count Orsini , who had been moved to his attempt by the hatred he felt for Napoleon III , whom he blamed for his failure to help the Italian national movement . |
| 20 | In the event of dispute he had to give testimony , whose value often seems to have been related to his rank . |
| 21 | The state is nothing but a family and we 're related to his majesty Charles the First just as we are related to our dads as simple as that , you know , the private and the public are identical political relationships are fundamentally family relationships . |
| 22 | His failure to do so has been attributed to his association with the ( to some ) dubious professions of wine merchant and journalist , to his supposed Jewishness , his lack of a university education , or even to anti-Surrey bias . |
| 23 | We may note with interest that this document , signed by Madame de Lully and Ballard , states that the opera Zéphire et Flore is the composition of Lully the father , whereas it has been attributed to his son Louis . |
| 24 | The job of taking over the No 10 jersey from injured Australia skipper Michael Lynagh has been handed to his Queeensland understudy Paul Kahl , who will be making his Test debut . |
| 25 | The that condition should or would have been drawn to his attention , that is the major factor in this dispute which goes . |
| 26 | Wood preceded him to his rooms bearing the precious dressing-case , which had been entrusted to his care , like a royal mace before him . |
| 27 | Chicherin ( with benefit of hindsight ) described the challenges which lay ahead as follows : [ Alexander ] was called upon to execute one of the hardest tasks which can confront an autocratic ruler : to completely remodel the enormous state which had been entrusted to his care , to abolish an age-old order founded on slavery , to replace it with civic decency and freedom , to establish justice in a country which had never known the meaning of legality , to redesign the entire administration , to introduce freedom of the press in the context of untrammelled authority , to call new forces to life at every turn and set them on firm legal foundations , to put a repressed and humiliated society on its feet and to give it the chance to flex its muscles . |
| 28 | Suffice it to say that all attempts to evict Dicky from his rightful home have met with considerable misfortune , and disturbance of such a nature that he has quickly been restored to his home . |
| 29 | The king married Philippa to Edmund Mortimer Earl of March in 1368 , and thus the earl came to possess not only the Mortimer family lands in the Welsh March which had been restored to his father in 1354 , but also the Clare lordship of Usk , the Clare lands in Dorset , Somerset and East Anglia , and the de Burgh earldom of Ulster . |
| 30 | Not the least fascinating aspect of the story , which broke the day after France 's quarter final defeat by Switzerland — and barely three months after the memorable celebrations which had accompanied their winning of the trophy for the first time in 59 years — was that although Noah 's decision was said to have been known to his players and coaches several weeks earlier , no-one apparently bothered to tell French Tennis president , Philippe Chatrier . |