Example sentences of "his [noun pl] [vb past] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I rather wish he had gone to work on some of the astonishing things Escoffier and his contemporaries did to fruit . |
| 2 | When his sons returned to Tahiti and were asked the fate of their father they said : |
| 3 | And earlier this year Sir Charles escaped bankruptcy by a whisker as his debts soared to £4.6 million . |
| 4 | His knees looked to Bernice as if they were on the verge of buckling . |
| 5 | She felt his smile whisper over the creamy swell of her breasts and then his lips began to feather along the lacy edge of her bra . |
| 6 | He may have heard the cow moaning as she gave birth , his ears sensitized to noises the rest of us would not have heard , as we sat talking and laughing around the fire . |
| 7 | Last autumn , a five-year-old boy from mid-Glamorgan and his parents went to Buckingham Palace to receive from the Queen the keys of the 250,000th car supplied by Motability since 1978 . |
| 8 | Born in Warsaw in 1905 , his full name was Marius Ladislas Steniatowski , but he shortened it for convenience when his parents came to England in 1921 . |
| 9 | His son , the present Lord Rathcreedan , born 1905 , recalls that his parents came to Henley in 1910 specifically for the golf and because it was not far from London . |
| 10 | His parents emigrated to Canada before the war , she said , and he had been buried in the graveyard of the nearest small village . |
| 11 | A few years later , his parents emigrated to Australia but James stayed on at Craigie with his uncle . |
| 12 | Last night former England international Beasant dashed out of a side-entrance after two more of his blunders led to Norwich goals . |
| 13 | While his workmates ran to safety , John turned back for his jacket , and his delay was disastrous . |
| 14 | Beasant , 33 , was booed every time he touched the ball after his errors led to goals for Robins and Phillips . |
| 15 | It sounds like a very familiar name , ask him if erm ask him if er any of his relations went to Cheltenham Junior School cos there was a bloke with that surname at my school and it 's not a very |
| 16 | Seth 's brother and one of his sisters travelled to New Orleans to try to understand what happened to their sibling . |
| 17 | Not only Mr Clinton , but most of his advisers came to power on a crest of frustration and almost revolutionary fervour . |
| 18 | His hands slipped to Shiona 's shoulders . |
| 19 | His ancestors belonged to Dumfriesshire from the beginning of the fifteenth century and were leaders of the clan Bell . |
| 20 | Alan Ball admitted his men had it all to do after his men crashed to South Africa , the Australian wicket went for a duck as a defending champion slumped said we are going to have to do it the hard way now , we just did n't play very , we did n't get it together against New Zealand in the first match and today we were never in the picture , our brothers never really had a chance of any attempt of a hundred and seventy , but full credit to South Africa they are a rate , a better to side |
| 21 | His thoughts strayed to Benedicta . |
| 22 | After my return to England I was able to continue my interest in Burma 's future , for when General Aung San and his colleagues came to London for consultations with the British Government , Mr Attlee asked me to 10 Downing Street to introduce the various members to him . |
| 23 | Mr Morrison and his colleagues travelled to Londonderry to meet SDLP leader John Hume this morning . |
| 24 | More recently , the official Patriarch and many of his followers emigrated to San Francisco , where the Nestorian Church exists today . |