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

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1 There is , in fact , every indication that Karajan was acutely aware of the temper of the times , though to find evidence of this we do not go to the random rag-bag of recordings he was permitted to make in the early 1940s but to what he immediately turned his mind to with Legge in Vienna in 1947 : Strauss 's Metamorphosen , a recording , still , of unparalleled intensity , and the Brahms German Requiem , a performance ( it was said to be one of Toscanini , s favourite records ) of unbearable directness and poignancy of utterance .
2 He had increased his speed to between forty and fifty miles an hour .
3 Congratulations to , processing , on his marriage to in Fort Jesus , Mombasa on .
4 There tends to be an easy assumption that satisfactory job training exists because everyone who remains in post in a library must of necessity have learnt to do his job to at least minimum standards … ’
5 A scar ran from the corner of his eye to under his jawbone , and his tattooed arms rested on the desk in front of him , which was covered with mementoes of his Legion career .
6 When he had remained in his bed to at least 6.30am he was praised and given a big mug of chocolate .
7 There 's little Bill Ward has n't turned his hand to in the first sixty years … from Tragic opera … to Singing puppets
8 ‘ He further informed the prince that , should he find evidence of a continuing liaison between himself and yourself , he would consider it his duty to at once have recourse to the king his father . ’
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