Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] his [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Williams , who beat Trevor Currie on Tuesday night to add the European championship to his Commonwealth title , may have to wait for his shot at the British champion , though Mason rises to his former sparring partner 's rhetoric . |
| 2 | Williams , who beat Trevor Currie on Tuesday night to add the European championship to his Commonwealth title , may have to wait for his shot at the British champion , though Mason rises to his former sparring partner 's rhetoric . |
| 3 | ENGLAND new boy Les Ferdinand has Ray Wilkins 's nagging to thank for his call-up for the Turkey match later this month . |
| 4 | He was taking large quantities of vitamin pills to keep his strength up — with the unexpected side-effect of giving him hairs on his chest — and he was socializing again , accepting invitations in the belief that it was necessary to circulate after his period in the wilderness . |
| 5 | The banker who is leaving the casket to the State for display at Versailles by means of a dation , the payment of death duties in kind , refused to comment about his intentions for the van Gogh which Paris 's nineteenth-century Orsay Museum is keen on acquiring . |
| 6 | He prepared to work for his father in the building trade , or even go back to college . |
| 7 | He had just been de-mobbed from the Army , intended to go up to Oxford to work for his Doctorate in the autumn , and was looking for a house for his mother who had recently been divorced . |
| 8 | Everyone associated with the game will know of the numerous titles won by Fred Daly , but possibly many will be interested to know of his achievements in The Open . |
| 9 | From the age of eight onwards he was allowed to dine with his parents at the Bonaparte family dinners which took place every Monday at the Tuileries , and occasionally at more formal dinners which were held in the Galerie de Diane . |
| 10 | He should stop fooling about and making the barrack-room lawyer performances that are starting to creep into his approach to the HMI review . |
| 11 | Mr Parsons had turned to stand with his back to the fire , the eternal male hogging the best place in the room . |
| 12 | Maurice 's fists were clenched , his features contorted ; he got up from his chair and went to the window to stand with his back to the room . |
| 13 | Nor could he bring himself to stand with his back to the fire escape . |
| 14 | Conscience gave her an uncomfortable nip , for it could n't exactly be said to be the height of honour for her to accept his invitation to dine in his home in the guise of a journalist when she was n't one , but Fabia went and studied her wardrobe . |
| 15 | For example , the assumption of a single non-standard to standard continuum with RP located at the standard extremity led Macaulay in Glasgow to exclude from his analysis of the ( a ) variable items which belonged to the /a/ class of RP . |
| 16 | The trials and tribulations which beset Piggott after his riding career was over — imprisonment in October 1987 for tax fraud — do nothing to distract from his achievements in the saddle , and never have his skills been better demonstrated than when he won his twenty-eighth Classic . |
| 17 | The Book of Revelation , which Tolstoy said ‘ reveals absolutely nothing ’ , is more heavily marked than anything else in the New Testament which Dostoevsky took to prison with him , and we know that huge overarching shapes like Baal , the Kingdom of Antichrist , are beginning to appear in his writing from the early 1860s . |
| 18 | Major Henches , another artilleryman ( killed on the Somme that autumn ) found time to write to his wife during the May fighting at Verdun : |
| 19 | It emerges that the head maltster has been asked to inform on his behaviour to the police . |
| 20 | The only lodgings James had been able to afford were so squalid he had scarcely been able to concentrate on his studies for the cold each winter , and the thought of a house and a wife to warm his bed had been added incentive to pursue marriage plans with Maud Rollerson . |
| 21 | If she did n't make a stand now he would expect her to jump to his bidding for the rest of the voyage . |
| 22 | He was now ready to stand beside his brother in the heat of battle . |
| 23 | He refused to comment on his relationship with the 32-year-old Duchess . |
| 24 | The addition was believed to relate to his passion for the music of the 1960s protest singer . |
| 25 | There are even indications that many of Picasso 's circle , the artists , writers and dealers who used to meet at his studio in the Bateau Lavoir and at the Steins ' house in the rue Fleurus , already saw Picasso and Matisse as the two rival personalities most likely to influence the course of twentieth-century painting . |
| 26 | Paul was not really interested ; he preferred to work at his book in the evenings , using a culza lamp . |
| 27 | But a random selection of the massive output of the chancery shows all the stops pulled out of the papal organ : the reminder to the papal judge , acting by delegation in a distant province of the Church , that he will need to answer for his actions before the Supreme Judge , the care with which letters seeking advice are answered ( Eustace of Ely ) , the terrible missives which reached King John and other miscreants and recalcitrants . |
| 28 | He could sometimes be induced to talk about his presidency of the Guernsey Cattle Society , but never about his presidency of the international tribunal . |
| 29 | We are delighted to announce that Tavernier , who will just have finished shooting his latest film will be in Birmingham on October 5th to talk about his work with The Guardian film critic Derek Malcolm . |
| 30 | He needs the opportunity to talk about his feelings at the moment , what he was hoping to gain from the sniffing . |