Example sentences of "his [noun sg] to [noun] " 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 | He submitted his resignation to Roh on July 5 , but the President refused to accept it . |
| 3 | Mr De Lorenzo , under suspicion in a vote-rigging inquiry , confirmed his resignation to reporters and said it was ‘ irrevocable . ’ |
| 4 | The Defence Minister , Italo Argentino Lúder , 73 , on Jan. 24 handed in his resignation to President Carlos Saúl Menem , an action which he described as " irrevocable " . |
| 5 | Singh 's government was the first to be defeated on the floor of the Lok Sabha and shortly afterwards the Prime Minister tendered his resignation to President Ramaswamy Venkataraman . |
| 6 | After 31 years in office , Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew submitted his resignation to President Wee Kim Wee on Nov. 26 . |
| 7 | The Finance Minister Enzo Debernardi stated on Feb. 19 that he had tendered his resignation to President Andrés Rodriguez " for reasons of health " . |
| 8 | She had brought his heart to life and what she had left in it would never die . |
| 9 | He badly wants to play , and believes that once he has a League match with Lazio under his belt he will be ready to give his heart to England . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | His sense of autonomy is also enhanced by his invisibility to others — he has no insignia of office , no uniform , or marked vehicle — and by the mobility essential for the efficient patrol of a district which will be geographically large ( if rural ) or complex ( if a more compact urban location ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Years of social discourse appeared to have done little to relieve his prevailing impression of awkwardness and unease , his inability to small-talk . |
| 14 | Returned ‘ without any seeking or soliciting ’ on his part to Richard Cromwell 's Parliament in 1659 for Castle Rising , again on a double return , he was allowed to sit but was inactive until the election was overturned a few days before the dissolution in April . |
| 15 | When he moved to Battersea his route to work took him past the factory every day . |
| 16 | Certainly , Temple has looked impressive on his route to Gateshead , boxing with a calm patience and displaying an ability to take and hand out punishment . |
| 17 | RAF hero re-lives his route to freedom . |
| 18 | RAF hero re-lives his route to freedom . |
| 19 | ‘ Roger , ’ he whispered , ‘ you know Richard III , the Great Usurper , passed over here on his route to Bosworth ? |
| 20 | The liberals , in extremis , had made the recognition of the king dependent on his solemn oath to the constitution ( 2 February ) and carefully stipulated his route to Madrid . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Lindsay , who said that he had no idea he would be offered the job , pledged his support to Reilly , saying that he was ‘ firmly behind the decision to ask Malcolm to continue as he is obviously the best man for the job ’ . |
| 23 | Lindsay , who said that he had no idea he would be offered the job , pledged his support to Reilly , saying that he was ‘ firmly behind the decision to ask Malcolm to continue as he is obviously the best man for the job ’ . |
| 24 | Darlington Labour candidate Alan Milburn was at the Edinburgh Drive school last week to give his support to Juliet Baker , 15 , who is standing for Labour . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | In his address on Sept. 24 King Juan Carlos urged delegates to the conference , which was also attended by observers from eight Arab countries and Israel , to work together to limit the pollution of the Mediterranean , and lent his support to plans for a CSCM . |
| 28 | The diluting of the industrial strategy was a classic Wilsonian operation , as Bernard Donoughue remembers : ‘ I 'm sure that Tony Benn felt himself betrayed by his Prime Minister because the moment the word got around , as it rapidly did in Whitehall — and the Cabinet Office made sure that it got around — that the Prime Minister was not giving his support to Tony Benn , then the civil servants began to back off from their minister . |
| 29 | It is made quite clear in the Life of Wilfrid that Wilfrid was intending to give his support to Eadwulf ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 59 ) |
| 30 | In 1929 Marks left the Liberal Party and offered his support to Ramsay MacDonald . |