Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [to-vb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 32-year-old Irishman said his struggle to return to the form which won him the world title and Tours of France and Italy in 1987 his 1987 level , when he won a world title and the Tours of France and Italy , had placed strains on his family . |
| 2 | My friend is not simply explaining why , for good or bad reasons , he did decide to go to the Park ( as he might after the event , in which case it would be no objection to his explanation that when he got there the zoo turned out to be closed ) ; he is defending his decision to go to the Park rather than meet me at his house , and I can still try to change his mind . |
| 3 | The change from the propagandist playing his derivative educational theme throughout A New View of Society to the leader , however temporary , of a trade union movement already inspirationally Owenite and now ready on his prompting to aspire to the control of the means of production and provision , was profound . |
| 4 | His willingness to talk to the French people on their level was received as a touching gesture rather than a condescending one . |
| 5 | This afternoon , at Sadler 's Wells theatre , he begins his attempt to progress to the final of the world chess championship candidates matches . |
| 6 | As his English guest turned at the door of his study to bow to the Romanian head of state before leaving his presence , he saw that Ceauşescu was holding out his fingers in the shape of a gun pointing at the head of his own interpreter ! |
| 7 | Michael Winner , on whose original story Likely Lads TV writers Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais based their script , had discovered , while studying at Cambridge University , a legal loophole that meant that ‘ borrowing ’ bicycles from his college to get to the office of the student newspaper Varsity , which he edited , did not constitute theft , although he was gated and sent down for two weeks . |
| 8 | At this stage it is sufficient to note his readiness to refer to the weakness and failings of his own religion which is a human construct and an expression of that which underlines all religions . |
| 9 | In April 1861 even the head of the Third Department thought that the regime would be forced to grant a constitution , but he added that " not only would the emperor not make up his mind to assent to the gradual introduction of constitutional forms , but he had even spoken out firmly against it very recently and had evidently not changed his mind on the question " . |
| 10 | And watching Gordon Wilson 's maiden speech to the Dublin Senate , one reflected that he is probably the only man in Ulster who is able to announce his intention to talk to the IRA and who no-one would dare to denounce . |
| 11 | Sun Tzu is right : leave but one avenue for a man to escape by and his determination to fight to the death will be totally undermined . |
| 12 | Mr Justice Connell 's inquiry , set up by the Jockey Club , refused to accept Mr Evans ' evidence that on both occasions he waved his flag to signal to the riders that the race had been stopped . |
| 13 | Mr Justice Connell 's inquiry , set up by the Jockey Club , refused to accept Mr Evans 's evidence that on both occasions he waved his flag to signal to the riders that the race had been stopped . |
| 14 | Mr Justice Connell 's inquiry , set up by the Jockey Club , refused to accept Mr Evans ' evidence that on both occasions he waved his flag to signal to the riders that the race had been stopped . |
| 15 | A second line of argument advanced on behalf of the doctor to justify his failure to accede to the request of his patient is that the doctor must continue treatment because to do otherwise would render him criminally and/or civilly liable . |
| 16 | Bodie began to drive slowly past both houses , using his transmitter to speak to the surveillance man . |
| 17 | During the eighteenth century the State acknowledged his right to punish to the point of death a serf who displeased him , to enrol him in the army , to exile him to Siberia , to trade and dispose of his human property as he pleased . |
| 18 | The operation to ship Rudman back to Britain began after he waived his right to appeal to the Irish High Court , and then the Supreme Court , against extradition , a process which could have taken months . |
| 19 | The notice also informs the contemnor of his right to apply to the court to purge his contempt and ask for release . |
| 20 | It should also inform him of his right to apply to the court to purge his contempt . |
| 21 | ( 2 ) The form of committal order should be amended to draw the contemnor 's attention to his right to apply to the court to purge his contempt . |
| 22 | The use of Form N111 , even if it has become ‘ obsolete , ’ was in fact more appropriate than the use of Form N79 , although it suffers from the same defect as the High Court form in that it does not draw the attention of the contemnor to his right to apply to the court to purge his contempt . |
| 23 | Pizan writes : ‘ When he was occupied by some task and not at leisure to present his lectures to his students , he would send Novella , his daughter , in his place to lecture to the students from his chair . ’ |
| 24 | It may be that a court of equity will regard the bank as affected by equities arising out of the manner in which the husband persuades his wife to agree to the proposed transaction . |
| 25 | Linkworth did not want his wife to write to the old lady . |
| 26 | Ratagan cocked his head to listen to the race of the wind outside that creaked the rafters . |
| 27 | He recounted all this without any anger or bitterness , but as he got up from his chair to go to the kitchen I had to turn away rather than watch him move around his flat as though he were still hampered by chains . |
| 28 | As Michael Ruse observes ( 1981 ) if selectionism is a tautology , neutralism is a contradiction , Darwin 's strategy in structuring his argumentation to conform to the vera causa ideal shows why it is not . |
| 29 | Sandys persuaded his father , the Archbishop of York , that Hooker 's scholarship was being wasted as a country parson , and in 1585 he was appointed as Master of the Temple , in London , where it was his duty to minister to the lawyers of the Inns of Court . |
| 30 | Bosnian Muslim President Alia Izetbegovic angrily accused the world of appeasing Serb ‘ aggression and genocide ’ and he urged his nation to fight to the bitter end . |