Example sentences of "to his [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ian Hunter , the two-try hero against Canada on his debut , reverts to his preferred full-back role knowing winger Nigel Heslop will go all-out to recapture the shirt he lost to Simon Halliday last season . |
| 2 | Not only the Headingley crowd would testify to this ; Lillee , Thomson and their friends saw him reach his century from 71 balls against them in 1975–6 , and go on to his highest Test score of 169 . |
| 3 | Dave 's unusual over-the-neck slide technique took the audiences by storm , and Gary has extended the invite to his prestigious Albert Hall concert dates this October . |
| 4 | When the young King was dying , probably of tuberculosis , the protector , Northumberland , persuaded him to leave the throne in his Will to his Protestant cousin Lady Jane Grey , Northumberland 's daughter-in-law , instead of to his Catholic half-sister Mary , as prescribed in the Act of Succession of Henry VIII 's reign . |
| 5 | As for the dormeuse , it would seem to have been taken as far as Quatre Bras ; and there , according to his fellow officers von Oetlinger and von Humbracht , von Keller determined to open the necessaire that he had found in the carriage , believing it to be full of gold . |
| 6 | He gave it to his fellow football supporter Mr Mellor , who looked energetic but miscast — an excitable terrier rather than a good-tempered watchdog . |
| 7 | Known to Grant and Springfield as Doctor Sung , to the sect membership as Archangel Michael , to his fellow sect leaders as Angel One , and to his Triad masters as Agent Red Sixteen , he was truly a shadow warrior of many guises . |
| 8 | So , if either dog is to be castrated , it is always the under-dog , making him less challenging to his higher ranking packmate . |
| 9 | He was elected MP to his late uncle Thomas Alured 's seat at Hedon for both the Short and Long Parliaments in 1640 . |
| 10 | To ask the Minister of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food what response he has had to his recent policy document ’ Our Farming Future ’ . |
| 11 | Individual assessment is concerned with the specific achievement of the individual student with regard either to his contemporary student group or to pre-specified goals . |
| 12 | Nicholson himself retired to his grand Carlton House , with its beautiful gardens and magnificent views of the Kent and surrey hills . |
| 13 | Gone are the days when dessert fruit which was n't fit for the mansion dining room was doled out by the head gardener to his hard-working bothy boys . |
| 14 | As the prosecution still seemed in no hurry to have a trial date set , Chief Judge Moran overruled the government 's objections and ordered that Coleman 's legal passport be returned , subject to his giving the prosecutor two weeks ’ notice of his intention to leave the country and to his reporting in to his pre-trial services officer every other week by telephone . |
| 15 | Careful to avoid being declared a fugitive , Coleman had kept up the fortnightly calls to his pre-trial services officer in Chicago , reporting truthfully but contriving to leave his precise whereabouts in doubt . |
| 16 | He thus pioneered in this country the discursive , witty , exuberant , and surrealist style of humour he bequeathed to his close friend J. B. Morton [ q.v. ] , who took the column over in 1924 and developed it through half a century into an art form . |
| 17 | In July 1914 while preparing the volume for publication , he confided to his close friend Florence Henniker : ‘ Some of them I rather shrink from printing — those I wrote just after Emma died , when I looked back at her as she had originally been , & when I felt miserable lest I had not treated her considerately in her latter life . |
| 18 | For over 40 years , music has been played , taught , written and hidden away here : the manuscript of Benjamin Britten 's only piano concerto , dedicated to his close friend Lennox Berkeley , was recently unearthed in the bird 's eye maple cabinet in the study . |
| 19 | We need to bear in mind the wise counsel of Francis de Sales , the seventeenth-century Bishop of Geneva , when he dedicated his book , Introduction to the Devout Life , to his close friend Philothea : |
| 20 | The individuals who comprised the Chaloner family varied as greatly in their characters as did the members of the parish gentry , from Alan Chaloner ( 1603–84 ) , the blacksmith who took pride in his work , to his elder brother Richard , whom Gough described as ‘ an untowardly liver , very idle and extravagant , endeavouring to supply his neccssytyes rather by stealeing than by his honest labour ’ . |
| 21 | When he goes back home to his tiny home village of Plains , Georgia , he teaches Sunday school . |
| 22 | Jacques 's two court posts went to his eldest son Jean Baptiste in 1747 . |
| 23 | Count Geoffrey , by concentrating his forces on the conquest of Normandy , was able to recover the continental part of his wife 's inheritance by 1144 , and in 1150 he passed it on to his eldest son Henry Plantagenet , now twenty years old . |
| 24 | There , on 25 February 1173 , before them all , Count Raymond knelt and did homage for the county of Toulouse , first to Henry II , then to his eldest son Henry , and finally to Richard . |
| 25 | Upon his death the title of Emperor , the Frankish territories of Austrasia and Neustria , plus Saxony , Burgundy and Thuringia , would go to his eldest son Charles . |
| 26 | She bumped into Eurythmic Dave Stewart in a cafe in Sunderland and was promptly signed to his Anxious record label . |
| 27 | When critics accused Richard Nixon of ‘ indecent exposure ’ , they were n't revealing the origin of his nickname Tricky Dicky ; they were referring to his 1952 TV speech where he was broadcast cuddling his cocker spaniel ‘ Checkers ’ in an attempt to clear his name ( with dog lovers at least ) in the first cock-up regarding a slush fund . |
| 28 | She goes back to his four-room bachelor apartment at 52 Riverside Drive . |
| 29 | Last year , Bolger lost his record of races won in a calendar year to his perennial rival Dermot Weld , but the signs are that he will regain the record this season . |
| 30 | The Labour leader , Mr Neil Kinnock , has appointed Mr Paul Boateng to his front bench Treasury team , the first black MP to be given a front bench post . |