Example sentences of "his [noun sg] 's [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Beaumont and Fletcher 's The Maid 's Tragedy , Melantius , approving his sister 's marriage to his best friend , tells her : ‘ Sister , I joy to see you , and your choice/You look 'd with my eyes when you took that man ’ ( i. ii . |
| 2 | His chairman 's address to the Institute 's north-west section on ‘ The Discovery of Polythene ’ became no. 1 in the RIC lecture series ( 1964 ) . |
| 3 | To ask the Minister of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food if he will make a statement about his Ministry 's contribution to the citizens charter . |
| 4 | In presenting his administration 's programme to parliament on April 24 , Mitsotakis stressed his desire for consensus and reaffirmed the economic platform on which ND had been elected . |
| 5 | Reaffirming his administration 's commitment to a streamlined nuclear force , Bush announced that he was placing all strategic nuclear forces under a single commander . |
| 6 | As George Graham indicated upon his side 's accession to the title , they would need more composure and sophistication to match Liverpool in the longer term . |
| 7 | Crow split his enemy 's skull to the pineal gland . |
| 8 | ‘ My husband 's influence does not require to be increased by his grand-daughter 's marriage to Artai , ’ Zurachina said with finality . |
| 9 | The announcement was made by Thomas Kartsch , the gallery 's director since 1955 , who ascribed his gallery 's collapse to the high costs of management and rent . |
| 10 | This latter point was of considerable importance as Brown restricted all donations to $100 or less , as a means of underlining his campaign 's opposition to conventional US " money politics " . |
| 11 | A man 's been found guilty of kicking his ex-girlfriend 's dog to death at her home . |
| 12 | There is his Author 's Note to Victorious Troy to assure us that he has spoken with a boy whose experience had been similar to that of Dick Pomfret and that cases where dismasted sailing ships without officers had been brought to port by boys were not unknown , but we hardly need this assurance in order to believe that Dick , not unaided but with a responsibility beyond his years , did in fact bring the Hurrying Angel home in the end . |
| 13 | The match could become the victim of the possible PFA strike and Bruce Grobbelaar , the Liverpool goalkeeper , pledged his team 's support to the cause to ‘ protect the players of the future , especially those from the lower divisions ’ . |
| 14 | William Mackworth added his wife 's surname to his own , and they assumed their place in the foothills of county aristocracy . |
| 15 | Mr Allan , who likened his wife 's campaign to that of the father of murdered British woman Julie Ward in Kenya , said : ‘ It 's most important we have something positive even though it is bad news . ’ |
| 16 | Nahum Morey was not at all happy about his wife 's attachment to the Foundling child . |
| 17 | But if he obtains his wife 's submission to intercourse without resort to those means , there is no offence . |
| 18 | Mr Doran had moved his wife 's cake to the first position , and Mr Clancy had moved it back to the middle , saying the first cake tasted had the best chance , and his wife 's cake would be first as it had got there first . |
| 19 | The proposition that in procuring his wife 's signature to the document Duval was acting as agent of Turnbull & Co. would , in my opinion , have been unreal and artificial . |
| 20 | This submission was based on the assertion that the bank had employed the husband ‘ as agent to procure his wife 's signature to the document or at least her agreement to the transaction in principle . ’ |
| 21 | Goodricke relinquished his Stockholm appointment in 1773 , following his wife 's succession to the Yorkshire seat of Branham Park , which brought sudden wealth ; he was then free to take his ease as a country gentleman , and devote himself to estate and agricultural improvement . |
| 22 | She had deliberately kept out of his way until now , leaving the task of showing him upstairs to his godmother 's room to Mrs Diggory . |
| 23 | When a craftsman adds his father 's name to his signature it can often be shown that the father was a craftsman too ( e.g. above , p. 34 ) ; and the practice may regularly have meant that . |
| 24 | The estrangement which had accompanied his father 's marriage to Turakina was an old wound , long since healed . |
| 25 | We persuaded him to explain his father 's plan to us . |
| 26 | She had always been touched with religion , but as Rory had grown out of boyhood into his teens , she had been content to let him follow down his father 's road to politely concealed indifference . |
| 27 | Morrison went from his father 's school to Melbourne University in 1879 to study medicine . |
| 28 | Only after his father 's return to England in July do we possess any report of activity on his part . |
| 29 | In 838 , both reacted to Charles 's promotion by plotting against the old emperor ; and when Louis the German answered his father 's summons to an assembly at Nijmegen in May , there was another unseemly row , which ended in the son 's being formally deprived of all he held outside Bavaria . |
| 30 | By 1823 , when George IV presented his father 's library to the nation for deposit at the British Museum , the collection comprised 65,000 volumes , 19,000 pamphlets , and the king 's topographical collection of some 50,000 maps and charts . |