Example sentences of "to the [noun] [verb] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having secured Theodora 's obedience , however , he left it to the Archdeacon to make his wishes clear . |
| 2 | The Spirit is his parting gift to the Church to make his presence as real to them as if they were listening to him teaching beside the Sea of Galilee : and the Spirit can do more for us than ever Jesus could have done had we been his contemporaries . |
| 3 | Sources close to the duke insisted his decision was not about money . |
| 4 | Miss Foley was ready to go now and had come up to the desk to clear his out tray . |
| 5 | Perhaps he 's gone to the pub to steady his nerves . ’ |
| 6 | Most evenings now he was very cheerful and joked with her and played games with Oliver ; after they had gone to bed he usually went round to the pub to calm his nerves . |
| 7 | If the house was n't locked , perhaps he 'd gone to the pub to buy his horrible cigarettes or another bottle of Scotch to drown his sorrows — whatever , she did n't think he would have gone far . |
| 8 | Once again it was the Club Secretary Eddie who came to the fore maintaining his good form and romping home a clear winner . |
| 9 | I did not enjoy the journey to Blackpool with these grim tidings ; and when I came to the platform to deliver his message to the audience of 4,000 the hall was hushed with anticipation that something ill was in the wind . |
| 10 | After a critical and commercial drubbing was dealt out to the last SCRITTI POLITTI album , GREEN GARTSIDE ran to the hills to lick his wounds . |
| 11 | He got up and went to the bathroom to wash his face . |
| 12 | The use of export houses is an alternative to the manufacturer having his own export department . |
| 13 | The sacramental body and blood of the Saviour are present as an offering to the believer awaiting his welcome . |
| 14 | I called him through to the kitchen to have his soup . |
| 15 | He goes out to the kitchen to hide his tears . |
| 16 | Frightened by the stranger he ran to the kitchen to find his mother . |
| 17 | Le Tissier was first to the rebound to score his 13th goal of the season . |
| 18 | He seemed bright enough and very eager to learn , but when I went to the school to see his work I found that his handwriting was very , very bad and his spelling was absolutely atrocious , and although he was good at mathematics , as time went on he began to get very worried and very upset about it and when I looked at his work I realized that he was doing a lot of the words back to front and was getting the direction of figures mixed up . |
| 19 | A ‘ Slaven for Scotland ’ number was followed immediately by the striker 's selection for Ireland ; the ‘ Pears for Sweden ’ shirt led inevitably to the goalie missing his England B call up with a fractured cheek bone . |
| 20 | In November 1929 he referred to Gandhi 's statement again in a letter to the king explaining his dominion status policy . |
| 21 | A groundsman ran on to the course waving his arms in a vain attempt to head the horse off but Heraldic was panicking even more now . |
| 22 | She felt her hand being placed against his cheek , and then his lips pressing kisses upon it ; she pulled his hand back , and casting all caution to the winds pressed his palm to her own lips , fondling it , examining the scratched and chisel scars on his knuckles until he wanted her hand back again — and the manner in which they took it in turns to kiss hands through the wall became a competition between them to see who could demonstrate the greatest fondness , a competition that Jennifer was now desperate to win because all her instincts were telling her that Tristram was the only man she could ever love , and that through him lay her path to freedom and independence . |
| 23 | As a boy in Taibach he had gone to the Cach to see his screen heroes . |
| 24 | The usher looked round irritatedly , as if hearing the bell for the first time , and gestured to the man to remove his hat . |
| 25 | His eyes scanned her face , as if he sought there an answer to the problem perplexing his mind . |
| 26 | It was a shed hand actually , he did n't , was n't responsible for cash although he helped the cashier and er , I well remember this erm in those days the conductor used to either run into depot with the bus or he 'd get relief on the Cornhill , he walked down to the depot carrying his cash in his cash bag and then he 'd sit in the paying in room and he 'd laboriously cam carried out his cash , piling the pennies into stacks , the ha'pennies , the tokens , the sixpences , every denomination . |
| 27 | Tony Cottee spoke to the press to express his disappointment at being dropped and said that Everton needed a playmaker in midfield to create chances for the strikers . |
| 28 | The second was that Article 3(1) of the Directive' the transferor 's rights and obligations arising from a contract of employment or from an employment relationship existing on the date of a transfer within the meaning of Article 1(1) shall , by reason of such transfer , be transferred to the transferee' did not require an employee who was opposed to the transfer to have his contract transferred with the business . |
| 29 | It is an opportunity in offering flexibility to the writer to construct his or her own line of argument and range of discussion . |
| 30 | It is more appropriate to such a case than is Form N79 but , unlike Form N79 , does not inform the contemnor that he can apply to the court to purge his contempt and ask for release . |