Example sentences of "his to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He regarded posterity as the only afterlife worth contemplating and , to show his contempt for the resurrection of the body , he left his to be dissected — a bold gesture that his contemporaries were slow to follow — and his reconstituted skeleton was exhibited in University College , London . |
| 2 | He did n't exactly offer his hand , but when each of them put out theirs he allowed his to be taken and dangled slightly . |
| 3 | He his to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses . |
| 4 | When McMahon received a letter from the Archbishop of Canterbury in answer to one of his to the effect that God Almighty still loved him , he replied that a certain quotation always stayed with him : ‘ I rage , I melt , I burn . |
| 5 | Tomorrow 's international is Dwyer 's 51st as Australian coach , one for every year of his to date and he kicks off his second half-century seeking his 31st victory . |
| 6 | I think I must be like my mother , she is always letting herself be interviewed , my father says its vulgar , but she likes it , she likes people coming to ask her questions about herself and how she makes coffee and who she his to dinner and what kind of paper she writes on , she says it makes her feel as though she really has got somewhere in her life . |
| 7 | The computer presents a jumbled sentence on the screen , e.g. " John school went bike on his to " . |
| 8 | Her view must in consequence be truer than his to the actualities of her time . |
| 9 | Very well , convey my congratulations to General Froebe — I 'm sure he 'll be anxious to convey his to me for the sake of protocol . ’ |
| 10 | White-hot heat coursed through him , and with it came the rare , precious fusing of mind and body , so that her thoughts and her emotions flowed out to him , and his to her … we were truly one on that morning , thought Fergus . |
| 11 | Believing that the merchants were responsible for his sequestration in 1644 , following the interception of a letter of his to Charles I , Crowe retaliated in 1646 by bribing the grand vizier to arrest all the company 's factory at Constantinople and some of its merchants at Smyrna . |
| 12 | Unfortunately , Randall left ambiguous the respective roles of Wilkins and Franklin , and this later led to dissension about the demarcation of the DNA research at King 's , but a letter of his to Franklin in 1950 makes it clear that on ‘ the experimental X-ray effort there would be for the moment only yourself and Gosling ’ . |
| 13 | As though he could see beneath her skin with those piercing dark eyes of his to the anguished pulsing ball that was her heart at this moment . |
| 14 | He told me that if I did n't agree to marry you he 'd release that tape of his to the Press … ’ |
| 15 | This was a parting gift but I dropped mine and the bloody dogs were on it in a flash , whilst Benjamin , kind as ever , gave his to the page who served us . |
| 16 | Lotze 's sentence was , however , above the nine years requested by the prosecution ; the court did not consider his to be a true case of state 's evidence , since it had neither led to further arrests nor prevented a crime . |
| 17 | Clearly , a sum paid to the settlor to discharge a liability of his to the bank would come within this section ( see IRC v Bates ( 1966 ) 44 TC 225 : the case of Potts ' Executors v IRC [ 1951 ] AC 43 held that a payment to a third party was not a sum paid to the settlor but that case is no longer good law in view of TA 1988 , s677(10) which was inserted into the former TA 1970 , s451 ( now TA 1988 , s677 ) by s42(7) of FA 1981 ) . |
| 18 | It 's a secret that the man who led a double life has taken with his to the grave . |
| 19 | He he 's got half of his to Simon , half of that house . |