Example sentences of "his [noun pl] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Heseltine , ‘ virtually every colleague who attended the enlarged meeting and thus came fresh to the arguments supported me , despite the fact that Sir John Cuckney had been invited to put his views to the meeting ’ . |
| 2 | I shall draw his views to the attention of my right hon. and learned Friend the Attorney-General . |
| 3 | The priest was offering his fingers to the policeman who poured some water over them . |
| 4 | She swung his legs over his head , and fastened his ankles to the bedrail beside his wrists . |
| 5 | His work was paralleled by that of William Greenwell [ q.v. ] , but whereas Greenwell extended his researches over all the northern English counties and Gloucestershire , Mortimer confined his activities to the region within a few miles of his base at Driffield . |
| 6 | As he re-entered the bedroom he noticed that some of the drawers lay open and were messed up , and as the truth began to dawn on him he ran to his private money supply hidden in a sock , for his outings to the pub . |
| 7 | Lewis felt that he must put all his talents to the service of God . |
| 8 | For , if he did not , he would have to continue to make partial payments to some of his creditors to the injury of others . |
| 9 | Casey of the CIA died , taking his secrets to the grave ; Poindexter resigned ; and North went into a bizarre media limbo reserved for bogus patriots . |
| 10 | How does Raphael convey his secrets to the Luciferi ? ’ |
| 11 | Would their sexual fiasco last night influence his attitudes to the company ? |
| 12 | Ardizzone is not only thinking of picture-books , of course , for his illustrations to The wind in the willows and to A. A. Milne 's Pooh stories make a similar contribution to the story . |
| 13 | He turned his canvases to the wall and laid down his brushes … |
| 14 | Colm Henry is unquestionably Ireland 's best known rock photographer , although he by no means limits his skills to the music area . |
| 15 | Exeter had been a committed Lancastrian who had suffered forfeiture of his estates to the crown , so that in effect the endowment of the Greys was being made out of the royal lands . |
| 16 | Exeter had been a committed Lancastrian who had suffered forfeiture of his estates to the crown , so that in effect the endowment of the Greys was being made out of the royal lands . |
| 17 | This guy when he the policeman spoke to him afterwards , his words to the policeman Now let's bear in mind he might have been in shock . |
| 18 | His words to the policeman were I like driving fast do n't I ? |
| 19 | His words to the tree seemed to be respectful and thoughtful , and he addressed whatever he saw as Sister . |
| 20 | His words to the Commando Officer in the jeep were drowned by the crack of the 15 pounders as a few of them opened fire , the guns lurching forward as the shells sped off towards their target . |
| 21 | His telegrams to the army reiterated the need at all times to respect Ukrainian sovereignty . |
| 22 | The consensus was overwhelming , but Shaughnessy could call none of his informants to the witness stand , even if they had been willing to testify , because almost everything they had told him — no matter how detailed and how well corroborated by information from other independent sources — would have been ruled out as inadmissible hearsay . |
| 23 | He made one of his expostulatory noises , seldom employed but powerful , and looked at her carefully from ten feet away in the water , lifting his spectacles to the bridge of his nose and then having to peer under them because they were crusted with salt , raising his head rather merrily , like a sea lion balancing a ball on its snout . |
| 24 | Almost certainly if we had the full text of Edward 's coronation oath , we should find that , like his predecessors back to the early twelfth century and his successors to the end of the Middle Ages , he promised to protect the liberties of the church , which , after all , was also the substance of the first clause of Magna Carta . |
| 25 | He lowered his heels to the floor . |
| 26 | He allowed himself one backward glance towards the estate , then turned his heels to the task of flight . |
| 27 | He spread his hands in a gesture of exaggerated bewilderment , lifting his shoulders to the level of his ears . |
| 28 | Fearon swung his legs to the floor , put his hands on the edge of the bed and grimaced up at her . |
| 29 | If a guy tried to run out on them , they nailed his legs to the floor . |
| 30 | Van Gelder broke off to accept a sheet of paper from a seaman who had appeared in the doorway , glanced briefly at the message and handed it without a word to Talbot , who read it in turn , muttered something inaudible and swung his legs to the deck . |