Example sentences of "[v-ing] his [noun sg] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Salman Rushdie followed up a meeting with prominent Muslims on Christmas Eve by announcing his conversion to Islam . |
| 2 | With luck , Mr Gorbachev may also have left it too late to make a fourth big mistake : returning his country to dictatorship . |
| 3 | Home Secretary Michael Howard is demanding a report on the case of a teenage vandal who walked free from court after admitting stabbing his neighbour to death . |
| 4 | SIX years ago , in the introduction to a collection of his plays , Howard Brenton was still trumpeting his adherence to Marxism and looking forward to an unstoppable ‘ British Revolution ’ . |
| 5 | He lifted his head proudly , the sun turning his hair to white-gold and shadowing his face . |
| 6 | With ‘ If I Was Your Girlfriend ’ he created another identity for himself ( ‘ Camille ’ ) by subjecting his vocal to studio wizardry that tweaked it up to an androgynous 55 rpm . |
| 7 | And bleeding his world to death , to finance … ’ |
| 8 | He did not restrict himself merely to giving his assent to publication , but added his comments , as , for example , on Two Treatises … concerning Infant Baptism ( 1645 ) by John Tombes [ q.v. ] , where he acknowledged that the author was a godly man ‘ and of the Presbyterian judgement , though I am not of opinion with him ’ and he agreed to the publication of these treatises to encourage further contributions to the debate on infant baptism . |
| 9 | It may be that in those circumstances an injunction could be obtained against him effectively to prevent his giving his authority to advertising activities in the name of the firm which would be prohibited if done in his own name . |
| 10 | With the Paisley MPs Irene Adams and Gordon McMaster , Mr McFall was lending his support to Operation Blade , an initiative by Strathclyde Police to clamp down on knife crime . |
| 11 | In life , Christopher Jabelman had been an urbane , well-educated man who was drinking his way to oblivion . |
| 12 | It was enfeebling , it had killed off his efforts at meditation , and there was something almost sinful in allowing his imagination to feast on these buried years when he considered the present turmoil and growing anarchy engulfing the city that had made him one of its own . |
| 13 | He made a useful start in helping his club to victory in the Cardiff High School Old Boys Sevens where they beat a Nationwide VII 40–14 in the final . |
| 14 | Just before the break , Charlie Nicholas , enjoying his return to action after an 18-game absence , unleashed a ferocious , 18-yard effort that clipped the base of a post . |
| 15 | But John-William — who always knew to the very minute — was engaged in the happy task of bringing his daughter to church to be married . |
| 16 | Ever the great ambassador , he has been touring children 's hospitals to deliver Christmas presents this week — although Fash has no intention of extending his charity to Palace today or Chelsea on Bank Holiday Monday . |
| 17 | Within eighteen months McCartney was in court dissolving his connection to Apple and the other Beatles . |
| 18 | In his Macbeth , the Scottish warlord became a Samurai warrior in 16th century Japan , bludgeoning his way to power beneath a cherry tree that rained white blossom down on him . |
| 19 | A CROWN Prosecution Service solicitor may have used an idea from an episode of the TV hospital drama Casualty to try to divert suspicion after bludgeoning his wife to death , a court was told yesterday . |
| 20 | JEALOUS Jason Osborne was yesterday jailed for life for bludgeoning his brother to death . |
| 21 | He claimed that after confessing to them , Newall had planned to flee to Brazil and told police he even thought of shooting his way to freedom after his arrest . |
| 22 | The hon. Member for Sedgefield spends a good deal of time travelling up and down the country proclaiming his devotion to training and enterprise councils . |
| 23 | The attendant of a fuming barrow with a torn awning was snapping his fingers , jerking his head to music in his earphones . |
| 24 | Hendry , who has not won a ranking event this season but could well be timing his peak to perfection with the world championship less than six weeks away , followed up with a break of 105 to lead 3-0 . |
| 25 | An equally fine cross eluded two covering defenders and Byrne , timing his advance to perfection to avoid a linesman 's offside flag , finished with what is becoming customary aplomb . |