Example sentences of "his [noun sg] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had taken his sister to town that morning , to Miss Baker 's and Miss Adeane 's where all the gossip would be flowing free and strong , and bought her a new hat and gloves and a flask of the perfume Miss Adeane kept hidden discreetly away for customers who wished it to he believed that they smelled naturally of lavender or roses . |
| 2 | She had brought his heart to life and what she had left in it would never die . |
| 3 | He said , ‘ Sister , that boy has got to run his course to crisis , and whether he survives or not depends not on myself or on any other member of the medical staff of this hospital . |
| 4 | Though the Library will miss his expertise and knowledge of the collection , it is hoped that his removal to Register House will further enhance the good relationship between the two institutions . |
| 5 | Years of social discourse appeared to have done little to relieve his prevailing impression of awkwardness and unease , his inability to small-talk . |
| 6 | When he moved to Battersea his route to work took him past the factory every day . |
| 7 | RAF hero re-lives his route to freedom . |
| 8 | RAF hero re-lives his route to freedom . |
| 9 | He became angry and frustrated , having struggled so hard to rise above his humble background to become a physician , and the marriage he had seen as his link to success was more like a chain binding him to the spoilt daughter of the man whose position he envied . |
| 10 | With the Paisley MPs Irene Adams and Gordon McMaster , Mr McFall was lending his support to Operation Blade , an initiative by Strathclyde Police to clamp down on knife crime . |
| 11 | With the approach of civil war , Moore pledged his support to Parliament , being named a deputy lieutenant of Lancashire on 24 March 1642 and taking part in July in the first military action of the war in Manchester , which was secured after a skirmish with Lord Strange . |
| 12 | No oranges will taste the same as those we ate on t hose Saturday mornings , saving the peel to throw at the screen when Roy Rogers brought out his guitar to serenade Dale Evans across a Texas campfire that was flickering in an enchanted cave in a Manchester street . |
| 13 | However , he did not use it very well — not bothering with a control group , for example ( perhaps this was his concession to anti-positivism ) . |
| 14 | BIG-HEARTED Frank Gibbs faces a bleak Christmas after giving all his money to charity . |
| 15 | He that putteth not out his money to usury , nor taketh reward against the innocent ’ ; this psalm is illustrated by one of the most inventive miniatures of the Stuttgart Psalter , c .830 ) . |
| 16 | His election to Parliament . |
| 17 | A Midlands motor dealer ( ‘ A fair deal with Grunt' — the ‘ e ’ had been added later , upon his election to Parliament ) , he was built like an elderly Land Rover . |
| 18 | This was " our Arthur " at his first big political contest on home ground since his election to presidency of the union . |
| 19 | He also exhibited seven paintings at the British Institution ( 1841–60 ) and eighty-four ( 1841–69 ) at the Society of British Artists , of which he was elected a member in 1845 , resigning in 1852 in the hope that this would assist his election to associateship of the Royal Academy . |
| 20 | The remains of President Salvador Allende were reburied in the central cemetery of the capital , Santiago , on Sept. 4 , the 20th anniversary of his election to power in 1970 . |
| 21 | Orbos , 40 , an unabashed populist , had made a meteoric rise since his election to Congress in 1987 , and was widely credited with having injected new life into the Aquino administration . |
| 22 | Mr Prescott , who was given a rousing reception after his election to Labour 's national executive earlier this week , condemned Paul Channon , the former Secretary of State for Transport , for refusing to accept that government policies had played a part in the series of transport disasters that had occured over the last two years . |
| 23 | A king not universally popular , who owed his throne to assassination , must have been sensitive on such an issue , and maybe sometimes nervous of joining large assemblies of armed men . |
| 24 | It tormented him and tested his sanity to breaking point . |
| 25 | If the purpose of damages is to compensate a victim rather than punish the perpetrator , then a successful plaintiff who passes his award to charity can not be said to have been compensated in any way . |
| 26 | Its purpose , as explained by Purchas L.J. , is to inform the contemnor of the precise reason for his committal to prison . |
| 27 | He had learned to play during the 1940s when record players were still a rarity on the domestic front and so his exposure to jazz came mainly from the radio . |
| 28 | At the same time , the Secretary of State has revealed his attitude to developments in his response to structure plan policies ; in many cases , while approving the general outline of the structure plans , he has also given more emphasis to permitting further development in rural areas and has substantially reduced the proposed limits for some green belts ( Elson 1981 ) . |
| 29 | But ‘ might-have-been ’ is the most poignant and fruitless of all sentiments , and I could not denigrate Leslie 's individualistic choice of combat , nor dismiss as quixotry his response to vision in the conduct of the war . |
| 30 | As then , his response to criticism of this latest faux pas was characteristically antagonistic . |