Example sentences of "the [noun sg] to his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Graham asked him not to summon the porter to his office . |
| 2 | The signing in July of a peace agreement with the UPDM [ see p. 37602 ] , whose guerrillas had been active in Gulu district , was followed by the return of UPDM leader Alimadi from exile , but the response to his call for UPDM rebels to lay down their arms was limited . |
| 3 | John tells me , by the way , that the response to his trolleybus venture has been so great that he now plans to do something along similar lines , as you might say , with the railways . |
| 4 | But there was one fault in the design which did not escape the sharp eyes of the Thrush Green neighbours , and John Lovell was one who pointed out the weakness to his brother-in-law . |
| 5 | In the sentence below , the underlying attitude of the speaker is betrayed somewhat by the adverb actually ( suggesting " you may not believe this " ) , and one understands as in ( 69 ) that he would not have thought it possible for someone to be so audacious as the public relations officer was : ( 70 ) But Drew was as determined as any Soviet Commissar to fulfil his self-imposed quota , and the fuse to his temper began smouldering whenever anyone suggested the 15% target might be overly ambitious . |
| 6 | He drew in his breath sharply and gave the change to his wife , who put it into a double-clasped purse , which was then hidden in the inner pocket of a locked handbag . |
| 7 | John , in the prologue to his Gospel , makes it clear that we do not become God 's children by natural means , that is , by being born as children of a human father , but by receiving Christ as God 's son and our saviour ( John 1:12–13 ) . |
| 8 | His malevolence towards Pound , his friend since their college days in Philadelphia , is extraordinary ; and when in 1920 he amplified this piece in the prologue to his Kora in Hell , Williams compounded the offence by quoting selectively from a private letter that Pound had written him . |
| 9 | In the prologue to his book on the harrowing contemporary history of Cambodia , William Shawcross makes several references to the part the modern means of mass communication play in creating and recreating national and international events . |
| 10 | Louis ' men had set their roadblock the far side of the bridge from Trent 's observation point — upended ammunition boxes topped by poles cut from the jungle edge and a square white signboard on which Trent could see red letters made indecipherable by the angle of the board to his line of vision . |
| 11 | Morse smiled , if a little wanly , and conceded the trick to his opponent . |
| 12 | Although he survived the blow to his head , the accident turned out to be the start of a rapid decline and he died just a few months later . |
| 13 | If he had no children , an emperor might adopt a son from another gens , or he might leave the throne to his sister 's son , who would of course bear the name of another family . |
| 14 | The teller of the tale — who in real historical terms is Chaucer the poet — presents the monk to his audience with a heavy use of irony . |
| 15 | In an apparent attempt to repair the damage to his reputation both at home and abroad caused by the events in the Baltics , Gorbachev called a press conference on Jan. 22 at which he declared himself " deeply upset " by the killings in Vilnius and Riga . |
| 16 | In addition to the damage to his integrity , the leadership challenge resulted in the immediate resignation of Keating , whose intellect and skills of debate had made him the ALP 's most formidable performer in parliament . |
| 17 | Erm that we had no alternative to do what we did er that C I D officers would speak to him and I believe that he would better understand er wh why we have done what we did er and I assured him that the damage to his door will would be repaired . |
| 18 | But Richard 's polite attempt to straighten himself and to give something like a slight bow made the damage to his lung rather worse . |
| 19 | But it was not the damage to his hand or the rest of the obvious physical damage that made a tragedy for Tom . |
| 20 | As I stood watching him for a few seconds and looking at the damage to his farm buildings and the dead and wounded cattle around the orchard , I thought to myself . |
| 21 | He inspected the damage to his mouth again , wincing as he saw just how much destruction Julie had wrought with the hammer . |
| 22 | So , it seemed from his choice of weapon that he had handed the advantage to his opponent , before a blow had been struck . |
| 23 | ( Costeley , also , in the preface to his Musique , confesses to having played with the idea of third-tones . ) |
| 24 | We see the struggle asserting itself in the preface to his poem ‘ The Glass Dog ’ ( Flowers for Hitler ) : |
| 25 | Indeed in the preface to his work Gregory appears to proclaim their uniqueness . |
| 26 | Again in 1788 , James Clark of Edinburgh , in the preface to his Treatise on the Prevention of Diseases Incidental to Horses wrote : ‘ In France , a regular academy for the Instruction of young Farriers has been instituted . |
| 27 | Whether the preface to his treatise in which this comment was made was ever actually read by the society 's members is not known , although they did order two copies of his ‘ two publications on Farriery ’ . |
| 28 | His motto , as stated in the preface to his Philosophy of Law ( 1821 ) , was , ‘ The real is the rational , and the rational is the real . ’ |
| 29 | In the preface to his Guide he claims that ‘ all ( his drawings ) were entirely finished while the subject was before him , for he conceives that studies are lessened in value by being retouched in the house ’ ; but a Miss Weeton who knew him well , and was godmother to one of his children , says that ‘ he is employed all summer in taking sketches , and all the winter in finishing them . |
| 30 | In the preface to his edition he gave a detailed description of the manuscript : |