Example sentences of "[det] [noun] to his [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And more to the point he did n't disappear on a massive binge , and he gave all that money to his sister . |
| 2 | At this stage the director revealed news of a letter he had submitted that afternoon to his colleague , verifying that he was serious about resigning . |
| 3 | His early rapid promotion was certainly due in some measure to his friendship with King Edward VII . |
| 4 | A few years later , between 1743 and 1747 , he carried out some improvements to his property , partly remodelling the modest Elizabethan house in the Gothic style and building a picturesque thatched cottage and an octagonal Gothic tower on the nearby escarpment of Edgehill ; and these works at once establish Miller as an important figure in the early history of the Gothic revival . |
| 5 | He wishes to dedicate this story to his father , Roy L Miller , who died on September 6 , 1989 . |
| 6 | He would doubtless suffer this blow to his esteem in a First Folio or a 1532 Chaucer , given half a chance , but in lesser books the wound is too serious . |
| 7 | Supporters carried lighted torches to welcome him to his 15th and final rally in Taunton last night , giving some credence to his claim that ‘ beacons are being lit all across the West Country ’ . |
| 8 | The prize pupil , however , turned out to have another side to his character , and others took his place on the platform on prize day . |
| 9 | And even if the Host is still able to hope that the Monk will show another side to his character as a tale-teller , the Monk will not , and retreats into a sort of sulky silence after being interrupted and asked for something less serious : The Monk as a character is explicitly and repeatedly compared and contrasted with the teller who succeeds him , the Nun 's Priest . |
| 10 | It 's probably harmless , even pleasantly nutty , and Brand makes a living out of them but there 's another side to his business : the school attracts more than its share of gays , especially for the residential courses in the summer . ’ |
| 11 | But there is another side to His authority , and it is a mysterious one . |
| 12 | Maybe , as Gloria had hinted , there was another side to his nature , carefully hidden from the outside world , a side that was capable of strong passion and sudden violence . |
| 13 | Lester Piggott added another chapter to his legend at Bath yesterday . |
| 14 | Andy Norman , who 's a sort of Sam Goldwyn of our athletics , spotted this key to his character years ago during a wait at Helsinki airport where Christie was hanging around for the last plane on a ticket about one grade up from cargo . |
| 15 | Kingsley Sam was driving this Scirocco to his girlfriend 's house in Cowley when he was ambushed . |
| 16 | As Burton loved to live in opposition — it made him feel most alive and it could be argued that he lived in serious opposition to his own body for long stretches of his life — it is interesting to speculate whether the homosexual network gave yet another spin to his heterosexuality . |
| 17 | Kenneth Clarke could lose some weight to his advantage , but Richard Ryder , the Party 's Chief Whip , was boyishly good looking . |
| 18 | The plaintiff understood this to mean that , although damage to the crop might result , the " Commando " would nevertheless be effective to kill the wild oats ; and , as the weed infestation was so serious , he was prepared to run the risk of some loss to his crop of winter wheat . |
| 19 | Parliament paid his debts and added another £10,000 to his income . |
| 20 | His foremost biographer attributes this withdrawal to his inability to endure the prison existence . |
| 21 | Standing on the landing , she took a moment or two to compose herself , then walked the last few feet to his mother 's room . |
| 22 | He answered in some degree to his friend 's description of him , but was more gaunt and Don Quixote-like . |
| 23 | At the same time , his company was closely involved with the beginnings of public broadcasting in Britain , though Marconi himself left this work to his engineers . |
| 24 | We were referred by Mr. Lassman to certain commentaries in Current Law Statutes ( 6 ) –12 ( 1990 ) 18/2 and also in Blackstone 's Criminal Practice , 2nd ed. ( 1992 ) , p. 639 which , when he began referring to them , he believed would afford some assistance to his argument . |
| 25 | Prince Charles could never have dreamed of this twist to his call for respectful allegiance to the past . |
| 26 | Scarcely a day passed in his diary at the peak of his creative period without some reference to his work . |
| 27 | Its main proponent has been Martin Kane and I give some attention to his work in chapter three . |
| 28 | But Nigel took the cloak home with him and it 's been another string to his bow ever since . |
| 29 | Another string to his bow is his governorship of the BBC . |
| 30 | ALAN LEONARD aims to add another string to his bow when he plays in the Irish National Pairs championship finals in Blackrock , County Dublin next weekend . |