Example sentences of "his [noun sg] to [num] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His only concession to emotion was to give his shirt to one of the ball-boys — a valuable memento for one German lad . |
| 2 | João 's expression suddenly froze , and instead of answering her question he raised his forefinger to one of the outriders and pointed . |
| 3 | When Edward III of England invaded France , John went to Philip 's aid and fought at the battle of Crecy where , as R.W. Seton-Watson describes it : ‘ giving the reins of his horse to two of his companions , and shouting the battle-cry of ‘ Prague' ’ , he charged into the thick of the fray and , blind as he was , soon went down fighting ( 26th August , 1346 ) . |
| 4 | Two towering Indian performances lit up the fourth day , with the ‘ boy wonder ’ Tendulkar going on to his second mouthwatering century of the series , lifting his side to 272 after a ninth-wicket stand of 81 with the stubborn More , who made 43 . |
| 5 | INDIA captain Ravi Shastri hit a fluid 63 to steer his side to 226–4 against a South African Invitation XI in Bloemfontein . |
| 6 | Mr Lewarne would take us in his car to one of the nearby beaches . |
| 7 | Breeze wondered why his righteous indignation did not prompt him to offer his seat to one of the women who had just got in , clutching a shopping-basket with one hand and a baby with the other . |
| 8 | Breaks of 59 and 92 gave McManus a perfect start , and he had stretched his lead to 6-2 by the end of the first session . |
| 9 | He had experimented with various foods and found that by restricting his diet to one of fresh fruits and vegetables he could control his migraine . |
| 10 | He got away at the cost of a couple of buttons and the boxer turned his attention to one of the ladies . |
| 11 | FOPA maintained winning form by beating Everest 6-1 , with Lee Gray a three-goal star to take his tally to 11 from his last seven games . |
| 12 | Quinn 's brace of neatly taken goals took his tally to six in four games since starting a month 's loan from Newcastle . |
| 13 | No one impressed more than the 21-year-old Hawick wing Tony Stanger whose hat-trick of tries boosted his tally to five in two internationals . |
| 14 | Robert Casey , subject of much cross-channel transfer speculation , showed his class with a couple of well taken second-half goals which brought his tally to five in three games . |
| 15 | But the Second Division battlers clinched a Lancashire Cup semi-final spot with the help of two touchdowns from winger Scott Ranson who took his tally to 13 in 14 matches since his arrival from Swinton last season . |
| 16 | Wicketkeeper Donald Orr had two catches plus a stumping , to take his tally to seven over the two matches . |
| 17 | The eight stitches to his forehead took his tally to 23 from three knocks on the head this season . |
| 18 | Mitterrand had earlier lent his name to one of the many ( abortive ( bills intended to give the agency a status in law : now , Marin achieved the task of securing a political consensus sufficiently broad to secure the passage through Parliament of a law ending the provisional status of AFP . |
| 19 | Ladbrokes slashed his price to 10–1 from 20–1 , while Hill 's offer 6–1 ‘ with a run ’ . |
| 20 | Two goals from England striker Ian Wright , which brought his total to 26 for the season , and one from Kevin Campbell , stretched injury-troubled Arsenal 's unbeaten run to 12 games and kept the Londoners on course for a place in Europe next season . |
| 21 | Marine 2 Gainsborough Trinity 1 : Brian Ross netted twice to take his total to five in three games as the Mariners renewed their HFS title challenge . |
| 22 | The 30-year-old Coventry striker took his total to 10 in six matches since his £250,000 move from Newcastle with another double to sabotage Villa 's Championship charge . |
| 23 | Signed on a free transfer in the summer , this hat-trick took his total to six for the season . |
| 24 | He took part in the actions off the Kentish Knock and Dungeness late in 1652 and the three great sea battles of 1653 , and General George Monck ( later first Duke of Albemarle , q.v. ) recommended his promotion to one of the navy 's best ships in recognition of his services . |
| 25 | Also in March I announced that Dr David Owen was to give his endorsement to one of the parties in the general election . |
| 26 | Haynes in more familiar pose — on his way to 184 at Lord 's in 1980 , at the time the highest West Indian Test innings at headquarters . |
| 27 | But on his way to one of the farmers that Jack had forlornly recommended , John hit upon the real answer : a large timber plantation of about twenty acres — ash , sycamore , larch , balsam poplar , noble fir , silver pine — all in just the right condition for his purpose . |
| 28 | Rose had roared his way to 88 off 79 balls with eight fours and two sixes when he fell lbw to Darren Gough , leaving Harden unbeaten on 76 off 71 balls . |
| 29 | Jeremy Montagu , an early member of Musica Reservata , is a leading authority on ‘ world ’ instruments ; David Munrow collected them avidly ; John Sothcott , a founder member of Musica Reservata , always wanted to play in a Bulgarian folk ensemble and his contribution to one of Reservata 's most notorious recordings was inspired by a chance encounter with a record of Romanian music in a Hampstead shop . |
| 30 | Here Gandhi is indicating his adherence to one of the fundamental principles of the Hindu tradition , namely , that one is morally obliged to fulfil the functions of the order to which one belongs . |