Example sentences of "[adv] to his [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The air waybill was designed as an acknowledgment of receipt of goods from the consignor , and as a notice of shipment to the carrier ( and especially to his agent at the destination ) , a notice which would also enable the identification of the consignee . |
| 2 | After a while the captain , much calmer , took Selkirk and Corbett down to his cabin under the fo'castle , a small , dingy room smelling of tar and salt , and containing a simple cot bed , trunk , table and a number of stools . |
| 3 | Roxburgh and Craig Brown , his assistant , who once sent Ferguson home from an under-21 squad gathering because of a refusal to toe the line over uniform , remarked on the absence of unsightly bicycle shorts and socks rolled down to his ankles against the world champions . |
| 4 | Only the two ‘ star ’ dressing rooms had an extension in Clarissa 's theatre , and the Stage Door Keeper grumbled a bit as he climbed the stairs to call her down to his box by the Stage Door . |
| 5 | When Bede came to write further of him , he referred only to his subjection of the Picts ( HE 111 , 24 ) . |
| 6 | The walls and the floors of her newly redecorated palace -rather garish many thought — are bare , The carpets and the pictures have been created and flown to one of her other homes — perhaps to Juan-les-Pins , perhaps top one of her two places in Paris , perhaps to the house of her fabulously rich businessman son on London , or perhaps to his island in the Seychelles , Her other son , a naval officer who will later pass , briefly and tragically , through this story , dined in his mothers palace one night in October 1978 and , pointing to the one picture remaining on the wall , said , " There 's one they forgot to take . |
| 7 | She nodded and let herself be led through to his room on the second level of the travellers ' hostel . |
| 8 | It could take a Harvard client up to half an hour to get through to his dealer on the telephone . |
| 9 | He 's invited us over to his place for the circus and if we like it we can have one here . |
| 10 | This corresponds exactly to his views on the relationship between linguistics and the study of literature ( Halliday 1967 : 217 — 23 ) . |
| 11 | Then most vividly he had described his own studies there at the ancient university of Heidelberg , capturing the attention of the two lordling drunkards by directing his talk not to his studies of the classics , philosophy , German language and metaphysics , but to the duelling societies , their codes and practices , feuds and meetings at misty dawn — sword fights to the death … |
| 12 | Reaching the foot of the stairs , he saw movement off to his right along the corridor , but ignored it and launched himself bodily at the door six feet to his left marked CONTROL . |
| 13 | A typical meal would consist of perhaps four dishes , and his favourite hot roast on a spit , brought directly to his platter from the kitchen . |
| 14 | All played directly to his love of the theatrical . |
| 15 | My own study is indebted to Fanon 's analysis of how discrimination is internalized psychically and perpetuated socially between subordinated groups , classes , and races — what , in relation to the latter , he calls ‘ the racial distribution of guilt ’ ( Black Skin , 103 ) ; also to his realization of the way the demonizing of the other is , above all , a mercurial process of displacement and condensation , so fluid yet always with effects of a brutally material , actually violent kind . |
| 16 | Within an eastern culture , table-fellowship and the sharing of a meal is regarded as a particularly intimate form of association , The fact that Jesus was prepared to act in such a fashion , and to be seen doing it , communicated as powerfully as any pronouncement , both to his friends at the table and his enemies at the window ( Matt. |
| 17 | Chancellor Fernandez will not have his contract renewed in June , thanks partly to his mishandling of the rainbow curriculum and partly to his boastful biography , ‘ Tales out of School ’ , which included some tactless remarks about the Board of Education . |
| 18 | Kate was down in the pit lane for the Friday qualifying session , her nerves nearly as wound up as the drivers ' , knowing that Ace was waiting to live up to his name with the fastest lap . |
| 19 | But there are other even more fundamental reasons for allowing this appeal , and they are concerned with the judge 's actions and decisions which led up to his discharge of the jury . |
| 20 | I went up to his suite at the Monogram and was just opening my sample case when , imagine my surprise … ’ |
| 21 | Anything he pioneered , created or evolved for the series , up to his resignation from the BBC in 1964 , was owned lock , stock and barrel by the Corporation . |
| 22 | Bundle one er starts in er , in fact in nineteen eighty three , nineteen eighty four with documents which deal with the er first plaintiff previous employment and his general financial situation before then turning to nineteen eighty five and to the events that led up to his purchase of the business around which this litigation centres , in September of nineteen eighty five and the documents in that first one will go up to mid October in nineteen eighty five . |
| 23 | She made supper for Jasper , who at once went up to his sleeping-bag on the top floor . |
| 24 | And do you know what , one of them is wading around in the middle of the loch , up to his waist in the water . ’ |
| 25 | From time to time one of us stepped from the path and sank up to his waist in the marsh . |
| 26 | He was stuck by his rucksack in the hole , up to his waist in the Arctic Ocean . |
| 27 | Will the Prime Minister come out of his ivory tower across the road , put his photo calls on hold and face up to his responsibility for the past 13 years of Government mismanagement , which has culminated in the worst economic crisis since the 1930s ? |
| 28 | Seeing the couple 's arrival and the manner in which Madeleine was clinging to Harry 's arm as they left the car , he persuaded his friend up to his bedroom on the grounds that he must want a wash and brush-up after the long journey . |
| 29 | He brought his drink up to his lips with the other . |
| 30 | Remind me to tell you some time about my Uncle Morton 's wife and his mistress both turning up to his funeral in the self-same dress … |