Example sentences of "his name to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Speaker of the House of Commons , Bernard Weatherill , has lent his name to a Commission on Citizenship in which the organisation Community Service Volunteers has taken a lead . |
| 2 | Known as FJ Gutmann in the 1930s , he anglicised his name to Goodman for the war years , serving in the ranks as a soldier before becoming attached to the Royal Air Force 's Photographic Interpretation Unit at Medmenham by the war 's end . |
| 3 | In time , he was welcomed back to the Salvation Army , who even arranged for a star bearing his name to be laid on Hollywood Boulevard alongside those of the great movie stars . |
| 4 | David Coleman has unwittingly given his name to this tradition of sporting gaffe published mercilessly in Private Eye , of which Murray Walker 's ‘ this car is absolutely unique , except for the one behind , which is identical ’ must stand for the many . |
| 5 | Sampson , however , insisted that Lewis should put his name to anything which was written , and in the course of 1939 he set to work . |
| 6 | PATRICK McENROE not only revived an old family tradition at the Royal Albert Hall yesterday but also managed to give his watching parents a welcome 33rd wedding anniversary present when he added his name to the Nabisco Masters doubles trophy . |
| 7 | That it was going in this direction anyway had already been signalled by the resignations — often amid recrimination — of every one of Mr Gorbachev 's top economic advisers : notably Stanislav Shatalin ( who gave his name to the rejected ‘ 500-day ’ plan to convert the Soviet economy to capitalism ) and Nikolai Petrakov ( who was the president 's personal economic guru ) . |
| 8 | Here you remember that Common Law would not recognize the assignment ; Equity in effect would , by compelling the assignor to lend the use of his name to the assignee for the purpose of suing the debtor , or , in the last resort , allowing the assignee to sue directly against the debtor , but requiring him , as a rule , to make the assignor a defendant . |
| 9 | Cripps gave his name to an era of austerity , queues , shortages and high income tax ( 9s. 6d. in the pound again in 1951 , almost as high as in wartime ) , flattening the peaks of the income range and lopping off any surviving Matterhorns . |
| 10 | The leaders of the Trades Union Congress , governors of the BBC , the Archbishops of York and Canterbury , to say nothing of grand figures like the former foreign secretary , Lord Halifax , the former chancellor and home secretary who gave his name to the wartime Anderson shelter , Lord Waverley , and the sainted Lady Violet Bonham Carter were all against . |
| 11 | He felt guilty but relieved that he had not put his name to it . |
| 12 | Glasgow gangster Frank Murphy changed his name to Frank Earn and went on to win the Scottish Welterweight Boxing Championship , but he was the exception . |
| 13 | John Müeller had come to London from Nürnberg , had changed his name to Miller and settled down to work in close collaboration with Philip Miller at Chelsea . |
| 14 | It was Child who suggested that Behar volunteer for the Royal Navy which he did in November 1943 having first changed his name to Blake . |
| 15 | The underwater explorer Jacques Cousteau was among those who lent his name to the protest . |
| 16 | The dead Jewish convoy commander had given his name to the land where Mrs Zamzam 's village once stood , an Israeli hamlet that was now periodically threatened with rocket-fire from Palestinian guerrillas , perhaps the same men who as children walked with Mrs Zamzam from Um Al-Farajh after the ambush on the Jewish convoy . |
| 17 | The young Robert Zimmerman had changed his name to Bob Dylan and had been wailing away for a couple of years or so , and Nicholson was among the first of his fans who listened to and studied the words of his anti-establishment anthems , ‘ The Times , They Are A-Changin ’ and his ‘ Mr Tambourine Man ’ which was a taunting , haunting song with a very hard edge that white middle-class youth took to be an ode to a dope dealer , which Dylan denied . |
| 18 | Later , Miss Twelves moved to Keswick and the Ruskin Linen Industry was formed and earned considerable fame , Ruskin allowing his name to be used as a trade mark . |
| 19 | The priest Rumen , or Romanus , who was chaplain to King Oswy 's wife in the seventh century , probably gave his name to Romney Marsh , large areas of which he owned and may have farmed . |
| 20 | When Robin had newly qualified in law , Herbert strongly recommended Rustenburg as a place to start practising , and offered to allow his name to be used in return for a small interest in the practice , on the grounds that many people would remember it . |
| 21 | Henry Huntington , who would give his name to Huntington Beach , had built a railway from Los Angeles to Redondo . |
| 22 | Kerry ) , deliberately developed the breed as a small animal able to fatten as well as to give house milk , probably by selection from the local mountain dairy cattle , and gave his name to the breed by the early nineteenth century . |
| 23 | The latter had just changed his name to Freygood and was preparing to move to Montreal having recently married a young Jewish girl called Ruby . |
| 24 | The legal control of odours arising from sewage disposal works merits attention at this point in view of statement of Wills , J. in R. v Parlby that the proper course of action for a local authority complaining of odour nuisance from a sewage disposal works is to obtain leave to file an information in respect of a public nuisance in the name of the Attorney General , ‘ A great public officer , who will not lightly interfere himself , or allow his name to be so used ’ , and for an individual to bring an action for private nuisance . |
| 25 | Born John Fiott , he changed his name to Lee in 1815 in compliance with his uncle 's will . |
| 26 | To James McGuire , their eldest son , he gave an estate at Houston , in Renfrewshire , and an unknown substantial sum of money , on condition that he changed his name to James McGuire Macrae . |
| 27 | One of Charles Tennant 's business partners was a young Glasgow chemist called Charles Mackintosh , the man who later gained world-wide recognition for his invention of a waterproof fabric and gave his name to a raincoat made of the material . |
| 28 | If self-knowledge is the key to life then verily might Mr Bowen change his name to Mr Yale . |
| 29 | Sixty-one year old ‘ Smokin' Herb ’ Kelleher won the first round ( by substituting a Texas arm-wrestling champion who had legally changed his name to Herb Kelleher for the day ) , but 37-year old Herwald took the final decision , then announced that Southwest could continue using the slogan ‘ just to show there 's no hard feelings or to be accused of taking advantage of senior citizens ’ . |
| 30 | To her surprise Broom-Parker had phoned shortly after she 'd returned home , pleading with her not to mention his name to the police . |