Example sentences of "to [noun prp] in his [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now internationally recognized as a result of The Age of Unreason , a book that encapsulates most of his thinking on the future of work and organisations — for example , the concepts of ‘ portfolio ’ work for the over-50s , the ‘ shamrock ’ company with a small permanent core and contracted-out services — Handy is Britain 's only world-class guru and perhaps the closest thinker to Drucker in his range of predictive ideas on society . |
| 2 | As Elijah Moshinsky looked out from the roof-top coffee shop of the plush hotel overlooking Plymouth Hoe — in which he is ensconced during rehearsals of Shadowlands — he confessed that this was the first time he had been to Plymouth in his life . |
| 3 | The description of Nothhelm as Ine 's kinsman in an annal recording Nothhelm 's assistance to Ine in his war with Geraint , king of Dumnonia , in 710 ( ASC CDE , s.a. 710 ) , indicates that the two ruling families were now connected by marriage . |
| 4 | Konrad Oberhuber has attributed many new drawings to Giorgione in his section on the drawings and engravings by Giorgione and the young Titian , but Ballarin does not entirely share his views . |
| 5 | Cuthbert 's oblique reference to Aldfrith in his reply seems to have satisfied her . |
| 6 | Carried by some freak of the acoustics of the place or by the mist , Jotan 's voice said as it seemed to Alexei in his ear , ‘ If you move or call out , I shall kill you . ’ |
| 7 | El País of April 19 said that Menem had thus " opened a new front for political struggle within Peronism " ; the Saadi family which for decades had wielded considerable power in Catamarca , had provided crucial support to Menem in his ascent to presidential office . |
| 8 | She comes back and tells the others her dad has found a nice man who has agreed to fly him and Paul and John to Florida in his plane . |
| 9 | This concern to avoid a false polarisation was certainly justified ; but it is a real question whether Brunner in fact did justice to Barth in his interpretation of him , or appreciated what Barth was really doing in reconstructing the foundations of theological thinking . |
| 10 | Owen was for trying to get word through to Harry in his prison ; there were men in Leighton who had kin within the castle , and for the sake of Master Harry whom they remembered well might be willing to risk the carrying of a message . |
| 11 | Give it to Sam in his mouth ! |
| 12 | So Adam slipped out of Castell Coch at dusk , and himself carried the word to Owen in his camp in the woods overlooking Cegidfa ; and a beggar who had hung about the gates for some days and been fed from the kitchens went after him every step of the way . |
| 13 | Yet even the padding , gliding , stooping bodies of his sisters , assisted by his mother , at the change from the hot food to the offerings of the first cherries , became visible and eloquent to Davide in his exclusion from the conference between the other older men and Tommaso . |
| 14 | By June 23rd he had found some , and took off to fly the bag to Balsley in his hospital . |
| 15 | The hearts of all who have been moved by Lizzie 's singing go out to Brian in his loss . |
| 16 | For it is now quite certain that Darwin , who gives no credit to Wallace in his Origin of Species , would have been quite unable to write it without his essential contribution . |
| 17 | That summer , however , events were to place a seal on what happened to Lewis in his Magdalen rooms . |
| 18 | The Doctor decides to talk to Bennett in his cabin , but when the man tells him to go away he forces open the door — only to find a tape recorder and an escape hatch door in the floor . |
| 19 | Such terms were scarcely to Edward 's liking , but he confirmed the treaty on 13 June , and in a fatal misjudgement , for which the Despensers may have been in part responsible , Edward agreed to allow his son Prince Edward , now aged eleven , to go to France in his place to do homage . |
| 20 | So it seemed to Fleury in his excitement , anyway . |
| 21 | He virtually commuted between London and Sydney , his Australian birthplace , where he would stay for months at a time with his parents , making award-winning films , before returning to London in his safari suit , sun-bleached and fit . |
| 22 | Any landowners who had been successful in this kind of enterprise would certainly have been of immediate interest to Paulus in his search for enemies of the State , as exploiters of pagan superstition . |
| 23 | And the thought of swooping all the way to Baden in his Alfa Romeo was quite dreamy . |
| 24 | His father disowned him publicly and said he would never be allowed back to Zimbala in his lifetime . |