Example sentences of "[adv] to his [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His enthusiasm communicated itself to the voters who responded eagerly to his promise of a " New Deal " , and he polled 22 million votes to Hoover 's 15 million , carrying 42 out of 48 states . |
| 2 | Arnold Leese 's anti-semitism owed much to his hatred of Jewish methods of slaugh-tering animals and the cruelty that he believed resulted . |
| 3 | MINTON 'S success as a commercial artist owed much to his association with John Lehmann , to whom he had been introduced by Vaughan . |
| 4 | The air waybill was designed as an acknowledgment of receipt of goods from the consignor , and as a notice of shipment to the carrier ( and especially to his agent at the destination ) , a notice which would also enable the identification of the consignee . |
| 5 | But his adaptability did not apply to his tenets , merely to his instinct for self-preservation . |
| 6 | When Meredith had been a child , her father always read A Christmas Carol aloud to his family on Christmas Eve . |
| 7 | Her bare flesh came close enough to his face for him to inhale its pungent female odour and he peered around desperately into the gloom for some sign of his French companion . |
| 8 | I think the problem was he could n't get close enough to his father at an important time in his life ; he was frightened of the Colonel , and I do n't blame him . |
| 9 | When Bede came to write further of him , he referred only to his subjection of the Picts ( HE 111 , 24 ) . |
| 10 | There would be a debate on Europe , a topic which tended to divide the Party , and it was rumoured that Norman Tebbitt , known to his friends as ‘ The Earl of Essex ’ — a reference not only to his place of origin , but to his courtier-like qualities — would be speaking . |
| 11 | The walls and the floors of her newly redecorated palace -rather garish many thought — are bare , The carpets and the pictures have been created and flown to one of her other homes — perhaps to Juan-les-Pins , perhaps top one of her two places in Paris , perhaps to the house of her fabulously rich businessman son on London , or perhaps to his island in the Seychelles , Her other son , a naval officer who will later pass , briefly and tragically , through this story , dined in his mothers palace one night in October 1978 and , pointing to the one picture remaining on the wall , said , " There 's one they forgot to take . |
| 12 | James himself , ill with some ailment which has never been reliably diagnosed , and perhaps debilitated by a variety of medicines in which he dabbled , fled despondently to his palace at Linlithgow to see his pregnant wife . |
| 13 | He firmly allied himself with the forces of change , but was careful to give due weight to the arguments for staying put , the detail in which he did this adding impressively to his reputation for grasp . |
| 14 | But Blackburn boss Kenny Dalglish was keeping his cards traditionally close to his chest about Shearer , who is expected to challenge for an England place against Holland in Rotterdam next month . |
| 15 | But Blackburn boss Kenny Dalglish was keeping his cards traditionally close to his chest about Shearer , who is expected to challenge for an England place against Holland in Rotterdam next month . |
| 16 | So he booked in at the John Radcliffe Cardiac Unit … close to his home in Marlow . |
| 17 | But if he had first dropped the razor , why should it be lying on top of the blanket and so conveniently close to his hand as if it had slipped from the opening fingers ? |
| 18 | Although before this year he 'd been to fewer golf tournaments than we had cold drinks on that hot September afternoon , he still has fond memories of watching Arnold Palmer win the Colonial NIT close to his hometown of Dallas in 1962 . |
| 19 | All these disconnected thoughts were roaming through his mind as he drove through the middle of the night close to his flat in South Ken . |
| 20 | Although Mr Brown , the anti-establishment populist , failed to come close to his win over Mr Clinton in Connecticut two weeks ago , he will undoubtedly fight on as a spoiler until the final primary in California in June . |
| 21 | Charles said he knew it well , being just off Eaton Square and close to his place of work . |
| 22 | Holding it close to his face between two big hands , speaking to the picture , he said , ‘ Sweet child . |
| 23 | Even so , the hissing flare passed so close to his face in its fiery trajectory , it scorched his left cheek . |
| 24 | Certainly one would have to agree that O'Neill did little to change either the reality or Catholic perceptions of their subordinate position in the polity and the economy but his failure almost certainly owed more to his lack of power than to his lack of desire . |
| 25 | He retired from the Army in 1948 and returned once more to his estate at Bishopton , where he devoted himself to farm improvements . |
| 26 | He went home to his fiancee in Scarborough , North Yorks , after a hospital check-up . |
| 27 | In all those years of deception , Brian Courtenay , whether as boss of a catering-equipment firm or , later , as a humble taxi-driver , never missed going home to his wife for supper . |
| 28 | Edward , now in Oxford , felt obliged to write home to his mother with full details of the affair and for the next fortnight pondered the steps he should take . |
| 29 | ‘ According to the report he was at The Morvyl Arms until closing time , after which he walked home to his caravan at Mil ! er 's Bottom . ’ |
| 30 | He would not care to take you home to his house to tea , he hates his father so , but I suggested both going to our place , you will do this wo n't you ? |