Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] to his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AN Oxford student has plunged to his death after a late-night drink and drugs party . |
| 2 | The Neurocranker — an elite class competition climber with a body and brain augmented by medical and computer technology — has fallen to his death from a competition climbing wall 5,000 metres above Tokyo . |
| 3 | A patient has fallen to his death from a window of the Princess Margaret Hospital in Swindon . |
| 4 | A monument he has erected to his wife ( née Brobity ) is more of an encomium upon his own virtues than upon hers ; his father . |
| 5 | Adam Drabo has since become a folk hero , for the inspiration he has given to his country 's people to rid themselves of corrupt government . |
| 6 | Whilst therefore making full allowance for the diversity of gifts God has given to his Church in the varying capacities he has accorded to different members , Paul insists that the Spirit creates unity , and that it is the job of the Christians to keep that unity and not spoil it . |
| 7 | Er Mr has referred to his preference for the release of lots of small sites on the basis that erm they will be er Leeds residents would be less aware of them than if all the sites are collected together in the form of a new settlement . |
| 8 | Director Joel Schumacher has referred to his tale of love and death as an AIDS-era movie but the coyness of using a ‘ safe ’ illness like leukaemia as a metaphor for the terrors of AIDS is just another example of Hollywood 's penchant for skirting the issues . |
| 9 | The hon. Member for Wansbeck believes that no inward investment has come to his constituency and , if that is the case , I am sorry for his constituents . |
| 10 | What has come to his rescue is an altogether subtler kind of ideas and information-limitation whose effectiveness is , if anything , enhanced by the fact that it can not easily be explained in terms of conspiracies and blunt propaganda . |
| 11 | Now the Everton and Wales keeper 's choice of shirts has added to his individuality . |
| 12 | Will my right hon. and learned Friend contrast the £500 million that he has added to his Department 's budget and last month 's fall in unemployment in Merseyside , Lancashire and Cheshire with the squabbling of the Opposition Front Bench , which can not decide whether employment and training are priorities in their programme ? |
| 13 | But he is old , Shelley , and he has to come to his end some time . |
| 14 | Suppose that the patient has said to his doctor , ‘ I am an old man , I know that cancer will kill me fairly soon . |
| 15 | The assessment should take into account the child 's physical , emotional and educational needs according to his age , sex , religion , culture and language . |
| 16 | The Standing Committee was exercised by a single issue : should an employee who develops an invention in the course of his contractual duties receive a special monetary reward for the contribution which that invention has made to his employer 's business ? |
| 17 | What is the purpose , for example , of awarding compensation to a person who has acted to his detriment in reliance upon another 's words or conduct when the parties have not reached an agreement ? |
| 18 | The Plaintiff relies on proprietary estoppel the principle of which , in its broadest form , may be stated as follows ; where one person , A , has acted to his detriment on the faith of a belief , which was known to and encouraged by another person , B , that he either has or is going to be given a right in or over B 's property , B can not insist on his strict legal rights if to do so would be inconsistent with A 's belief . |
| 19 | Contributory negligence is where the plaintiff 's fault has contributed to his damage and the damages awarded are reduced in proportion to his fault . |
| 20 | Købke had a brief life ( 1810–48 ) and his body of work is correspondingly restricted , which no doubt has contributed to his neglect . |
| 21 | Binchy 's father , a lawyer , had warned her never to put anyone real into her fiction , and she has stuck to his advice with only minor deviations : Benny in Circle of Friends was in part a self-portrait — a safe enough liberty ; and a mean friend of her mother found her way , disguised , into The Lilac Bus . |
| 22 | ‘ Our beloved Leader — our glorious Leader — ’ ( this repetition for the benefit of another , who responded , ‘ Long live the Leader ! ’ ) — ‘ has brought to his attention that someone who can still see this nation of the blind has noticed a certain car hanging around the hero 's house , filled with big bad men . |
| 23 | But he added : ‘ Everybody recognises that the Government has to hold on to an existing policy until the replacement is ready to put in place , and clearly the Secretary of State has to hold to his policy until an alternative has been agreed . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I think the fame of being a footballer has gone to his head . |
| 25 | ( 1 ) A new teacher has gone to his headteacher 's office . |
| 26 | Through the preparation of his body for burial , the deceased had undergone s'akhu or glorification and was described as " one who has gone to his Akh " . |
| 27 | He drove me there in his little green car ( ‘ What has happened to his bicycle ? ’ |
| 28 | He knows what has happened to his land . |
| 29 | Deep down , he is convinced that he is the best thing that has happened to his country since the invention of goulash . |
| 30 | He is shocked at what has happened to his son although he added that Darlington town centre has a reputation for violence . |