Example sentences of "[num] of his [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between 1717 and 1734 Dale sent nineteen of his pupils to St. John 's College , Cambridge , and two others to Trinity . |
| 2 | This seems to have been , at least in part , the motive behind a walking-tour which Pound took in 1911 , of which we learn in chapter 16 of his Guide to Kulchur , written twenty years later : |
| 3 | Bartram seemed particularly grieved when , in 1744 , he learned that a letter about one of his journeys to Lake Ontario might be lost with |
| 4 | I should think that would figure in one of his reports to London . ’ |
| 5 | In one of his letters to Gould in Australia , Prince writes , ‘ I and Joseph are both much pleased to hear so good a report of Gilbert . |
| 6 | In one of his letters to Salt Gandhi wrote that he had become a confirmed vegetarian after reading Salt 's essays published under the title The Logic of Vegetarianism ( 1897 ) . |
| 7 | Hermitage with its tiny church dozes beneath High Stoy from where Grace Melbury watched her erring husband ride away on one of his visits to Mrs Charmond , and , a few miles to the west , Melbury Bubb is tucked beneath Bubb Down Hill , seemingly oblivious to the outside world . |
| 8 | On one of his visits to Beckenham , Pearson told him about a little girl neighbour , a Downs Syndrome child , who loved seeing Kenneth Williams in films or on television . |
| 9 | He told how , on one of his visits to Delhi , the legendary Mullah Nasir-ud-Din arrived in the city in the middle of Ramadan . |
| 10 | She said : ‘ After one of his trips to Highgrove he came back raving about the solid gold service . |
| 11 | It alleged that he had been fitted out with a secret transmitter on one of his missions to Lebanon , to pinpoint the exact location of the hostages and kidnappers . |
| 12 | His elder brother had been to Yugoslavia , one of his sisters to Greece . |
| 13 | Moreover , another of Sighvat 's poems , Erlingsflokkr , on the Norwegian Erling Skjalgsson , mentions the marriage of one of his sisters to Ragnvald , father of Ulf , and verse 19 of Austrfararvísur includes an unnamed brother of Ulf . |
| 14 | ‘ Oh , well , please yourself , ’ he said and , worried lest Primrose should have felt excluded from the conversation , as well as the trip to Southampton , he offered to give her two of his tickets to Wimbledon . |