Example sentences of "his [noun sg] to that [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Are we to assume that the defendant might by some slip in pleading , have failed in his defence to that action , if it had proceeded ?
2 Peter Gibson J said , at p638 : An employee with experience in a particular industry who is intending to leave , whether to join a competitor as an employee or to set up in competition on his own account , commits no breach of contract in doing so unless either there is a specific term of his contract to that effect which does not fall foul of the doctrine against restraint of trade or he is intending to use the confidential information of his employer otherwise and for the benefit of his employer .
3 He is , of course , exceptional , but his sharp perception of the way in which teachers orient their expectations of black kids and his response to that perception was by no means out of the ordinary .
4 After considerable dithering , he has pledged his life and his future to that belief , and now the validity of his belief has begun to appear more and more questionable .
5 The Hon. Gentleman had better address his mind to that difference .
6 Guide to Kulchur gives us Pound at his most personal , at his most deliberately vulnerable ; it is here that we find him wondering aloud , for instance , if the body of his work to that date could be mentioned in the same breath with Thomas Hardy 's .
7 Sold his body to that kind of man for lots of money ?
8 Airlines attracted the attention of corporate buccaneers like Carl Icahn who was to turn his attention to that icon of American might USX ( the former United Steel ) .
9 If , as is more likely , the seller gives his instruction to that person 's employer or principal , he must allow reasonable time for the instructions to be communicated to the person in actual possession before delivery is made to the buyer .
10 And if that went — as , later , it threatened to do — then his access to that gift , that way with speaking , with ‘ being ’ another person and totally convincing an audience — that would be in danger .
11 The lord James had undertaken that the Sultan in Cairo should not contravene any article of the pact , and his emir Tzani-bey al-Ablak had been asked to give his word to that effect .
12 That could be remedied , he could acquire a transcript of the proceedings or simply a copy of the pathologist 's findings , but he did not dare , he was not prepared to show his hand to that extent .
13 A century later , however , MacArthur was still given credit in South Africa for his contribution to that country 's economy .
14 Thus , if the creditor knew that the debtor hoped to pay his debt to that creditor from a contract which the debtor was about to enter into , the creditor can not subsequently claim that the prospect of being paid from that source is not a reasonable prospect .
15 And so it was that he gained his passport to that respectability which lay so easily on his shoulders by the time his picture was painted : he would be apprenticed .
16 After Cross and Wilson had moved to Jamaica , taking the painter Eve Discher with them to act as their housekeeper , Minton stayed with them on his visit to that country in 1950 .
17 He may remember his visit to that school 18 months ago .
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