Example sentences of "[conj] to his [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The selection of committees is an important matter and the newly-elected councillor , if he has any preferences , should make them known in some form either to his political group or to his acquaintances on the council . |
| 2 | And this difference between them and such initially sympathetic Englishmen as Hewlett and Newbolt went very deep ; for ultimately it meant that , when the question arose whether the artist 's first responsibility was to his art ( his trade ) or to his society , Pound and Lewis and Ford would opt for the first alternative , Hewlett and Newbolt for the second — as indeed we soon see them doing when both of them answer the call of First World War patriotism by writing moralebuilding poems and stories . |
| 3 | Suppose , then , that such a tenant went off to war , from a sense of duty either to his King or to his God , or in the hope of booty , not knowing if and when he would return . |
| 4 | The man is unconsciously seeking to take his mother as sexual object , but during the course of his upbringing he has learned to repress his wishes to make love to his mother , or to his sister . |
| 5 | The order is in the opinion of the Secretary of State such as to give effect either to the Director 's proposals or to his proposal as modified by the Advisory Committee ; and |
| 6 | If the wife can so easily dispose of this property , it may be that her husband will coax or bully her into parting with it to him or to his creditors , and so it allows her a privilege which no other grown-up person of sound mind in the country can enjoy . |
| 7 | Ariel Poems , like Coriolan , look back to the world of Eliot 's childhood and youth , whether to his reading of Mayne Reid 's novels or to his sailing off the coast of New England . |
| 8 | That would suggest it was delivered by hand , either here or to his home . ’ |
| 9 | The first line is the voice of one man talking either to himself or to his friends — |
| 10 | No political action may be undertaken if it makes a difference to the likelihood that a person will endorse one conception of the good or another , or to his chances of realizing his conception of the good , unless other actions are undertaken which cancel out such effects . |
| 11 | De Gaulle 's strident language suggested a fundamentally unsympathetic attitude towards the pieds noirs — an attitude which some have traced back to the latter 's wartime Vichyism , others to the General 's aversion for Mediterranean temperaments or to his incomprehension of the pieds noirs ' " tortured double identity — half French , half Algerian " . |
| 12 | What happens when the unconscious child in Joan Halton finds yet again that she is always losing out , this time to her husband , to his old car on which he dotes or to his mother who is still demanding so much of his time and attention , and that he appears to be forgetting that he is now married and has new first loyalties ? |
| 13 | the document was actually delivered to the defendant or to his residence by another method provided for by this Convention , |
| 14 | It will be noted that Article 15(1) ( b ) is satisfied if the document is actually delivered to the defendant or to his residence . |
| 15 | In England and Wales , a manufacturer has a common law duty of care to ensure that his products do not cause injury or damage to a person or to his property . |
| 16 | If a defendant wishes payment under the counterclaim to be made other than at his address for service or to his solicitor he must give an address for payment " with appropriate reference details " . |
| 17 | Na , no damage except to his vehicle . |
| 18 | He believed that the greatest scientists should also be poets , for both recognized affinity , analogy and beauty ; and although to his biographer his mind seemed essentially Platonic , his greatest heroes were Aristotle , Linnaeus , Robert Brown and Goethe . |
| 19 | Mr. Cooper , the chairman of the dock company and the ports authority , gave evidence before me and stated unequivocally that it did not come from him , nor to his knowledge from any of his subordinates . |
| 20 | But that look of defeat on his wife 's face was conducive neither to his sense of success nor to his peace of mind . |
| 21 | I daresay he said that to his disciples , only that bit was censored . |
| 22 | He 's been , said that to his wife there touching you up at his side . |
| 23 | There is no doubt that to his contemporaries he seemed , for much of his reign , the outstanding example of a modern and enlightened ruler . |
| 24 | If it had been a man who had called him that to his face , he would have smashed him to a pulp . |
| 25 | He told me once that to his mind organized religion destroyed moral and spiritual values . |
| 26 | And if the river spoke to his dreaming , rather than to his daytime sell , he supposed that he had no business to attend to it . |
| 27 | Certainly one would have to agree that O'Neill did little to change either the reality or Catholic perceptions of their subordinate position in the polity and the economy but his failure almost certainly owed more to his lack of power than to his lack of desire . |
| 28 | Biff nodded , more to himself than to his companion . |
| 29 | What success he had depended at least in part on the willingness and vigour with which the women supported his pleas for help : without their backing his affines could well say they had no greater obligation to him than to his enemies , and refuse to help . |
| 30 | Everything about his later life shows that Richard was much closer to his mother than to his father . |