Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] to his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taylor was educated at home and at a private day-school , and as apprentice to his father . |
| 2 | Following a consumer deal in which the consumer bought a hot bottle direct from the manufacturer , the consumer may claim for damage to his bed after the bottle burst . |
| 3 | For this reason a non-occupier can not maintain a claim in nuisance and an occupier 's right to damages for his personal injuries is ancillary to his claim for compensation for damage to his property . |
| 4 | Begin to look for route to his home in A-Z . |
| 5 | For more than two years from mid-1986 , Mazur — known as Musella to his drug world contacts — risked his life as he sought to infiltrate the smugglers in an operation known as C-Chase . |
| 6 | Edward , known as David to his family , did not want the role of Kingship , but then , neither did his brother Bertie . |
| 7 | He also blamed the English family connexion of the crown princess for opposition to his politics at court . |
| 8 | Anthony lost a lot of blood and is likely to be scarred for life after injuries to his face , arm and leg and foot . |
| 9 | With his whole political position in western Toulouse crumbling , Raymond again appealed for help to his overlord , King Philip , and this time his appeal was answered . |
| 10 | Lycander describes his passion for Terentia to his sister Emilia : |
| 11 | Mason occupied two spaces on a tier of seats normally reserved for visitors to his manager 's gymnasium above the Royal Oak , a grimy Victorian watering hole in Canning Town . |
| 12 | And Madam I 'd ask you not to make any award for compensation to his girlfriend cos that 's just gon na add insult to injury really , is n't it ? |
| 13 | Mr Haughton was taken to Whiston Hospital and treated for burns to his chest and right shoulder . |
| 14 | If Glynn had wanted a cover for visits to his woman friend , his charitable trips to St Ives served him well ; New Mill involved only a detour of a mile or so from the direct route . |
| 15 | Even though he sees the parents of these dead children as traitors to his cause ? |
| 16 | Anyone who has served with him at the Department — and I am talking not just about his present ministerial team — knows that he not only brings a greater degree of expertise to his job than anyone I can remember but does it with great inventiveness in terms of improving benefits and with an exceptional degree of compassion and , above all , integrity . |
| 17 | The miraculous moment of transmutation , when lead turns into gold , as it were , can be proven to have taken place at the precise second when the first buyer hands over his American Express card to add the foreskin of the Infant Jesus or a mummified fish from the Miraculous Drought of Fishes to his collection . |
| 18 | He had a strong sense of responsibility to his vocation of preaching and loved to compare himself to St Paul . |
| 19 | TED COULD only enlist the spirit of Churchill to his cause . |
| 20 | Clearly Luke had achieved the exorcism he had sought by making love to her and was now free to either pursue or resume a relationship with Cavell Fielding , with no danger of damage to his self-respect because he respected Cavell . |
| 21 | One informed him that the seventeen year old offender who had caused two hundred and fifty pounds worth of damage to his car had been formerly cautioned . |
| 22 | As far as property damage is concerned , the provisions are really aimed at the consumer market , so , if you buy a home computer as a Christmas present for your uncle and because of a fault it catches fire and causes £1,500 of damage to his house , then your uncle will have a claim under the 1987 Act against the manufacturer of the computer for the damage to the house and furniture . |
| 23 | His basic theology , his belief in the verbal inspiration and authority of the Bible , the nature of Christ as perfect God and man , His death on the cross to pay the penalty for sin , God 's gracious gift of faith to His elect , man 's responsibility to repent and believe the Gospel , and so on , are all considered as ‘ outmoded ’ by many leaders in the modern church . |
| 24 | A common law duty of care is owned by a person providing reports or advice under the law of contract to his client and under the law of tort , to those whom he knew , or ought reasonably to have known , or should have foreseen , might rely on his reports or advice . |
| 25 | The court said that he was plainly soliciting their custom at a time when he was under a duty of fidelity to his employer and awarded his former employers damages . |
| 26 | ‘ Oh , Travis , ’ mourned Leith , and , because she felt helpless to give him any verbal comfort , she stretched out a hand of sympathy to his arm . |
| 27 | Most if it he knew : the copyright on his works to his wife Viola ; the manuscripts to his former wife Hilda Machin ; a small sum of money to his mother , still alive at the time of the making of the will . |
| 28 | Without thinking , he added a carton of milk to his basket . |
| 29 | He pushed a cup of tea to his daughter who rejected it in favour of cold milk . |
| 30 | Thus illegitimacy is no longer taken into consideration in determining the rights of succession of an illegitimate person , or the rights of succession to his estate , or the rights of succession traced through an illegitimate relationship . |