Example sentences of "have [verb] to his " in BNC.
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| 1 | AN Oxford student has plunged to his death after a late-night drink and drugs party . |
| 2 | The Neurocranker — an elite class competition climber with a body and brain augmented by medical and computer technology — has fallen to his death from a competition climbing wall 5,000 metres above Tokyo . |
| 3 | A patient has fallen to his death from a window of the Princess Margaret Hospital in Swindon . |
| 4 | A monument he has erected to his wife ( née Brobity ) is more of an encomium upon his own virtues than upon hers ; his father . |
| 5 | Adam Drabo has since become a folk hero , for the inspiration he has given to his country 's people to rid themselves of corrupt government . |
| 6 | Whilst therefore making full allowance for the diversity of gifts God has given to his Church in the varying capacities he has accorded to different members , Paul insists that the Spirit creates unity , and that it is the job of the Christians to keep that unity and not spoil it . |
| 7 | My hon. Friend 's successor will have a hard act to follow : the diligence and commitment that my hon. Friend has given to his constituents have been exemplary . |
| 8 | Set in a slum in Islington , North London , it showed the divisions in a working-class family where the boozing bully of a father resents the independence that the Welfare State has given to his three children . |
| 9 | Director Joel Schumacher has referred to his tale of love and death as an AIDS-era movie but the coyness of using a ‘ safe ’ illness like leukaemia as a metaphor for the terrors of AIDS is just another example of Hollywood 's penchant for skirting the issues . |
| 10 | Er Mr has referred to his preference for the release of lots of small sites on the basis that erm they will be er Leeds residents would be less aware of them than if all the sites are collected together in the form of a new settlement . |
| 11 | What has come to his rescue is an altogether subtler kind of ideas and information-limitation whose effectiveness is , if anything , enhanced by the fact that it can not easily be explained in terms of conspiracies and blunt propaganda . |
| 12 | The hon. Member for Wansbeck believes that no inward investment has come to his constituency and , if that is the case , I am sorry for his constituents . |
| 13 | Now the Everton and Wales keeper 's choice of shirts has added to his individuality . |
| 14 | Will my right hon. and learned Friend contrast the £500 million that he has added to his Department 's budget and last month 's fall in unemployment in Merseyside , Lancashire and Cheshire with the squabbling of the Opposition Front Bench , which can not decide whether employment and training are priorities in their programme ? |
| 15 | But he is old , Shelley , and he has to come to his end some time . |
| 16 | Suppose that the patient has said to his doctor , ‘ I am an old man , I know that cancer will kill me fairly soon . |
| 17 | Each of us has turned to his own way . |
| 18 | Knowing what Edmund has done to his real father might have given Cornwall pause before proclaiming himself the next one . |
| 19 | The Standing Committee was exercised by a single issue : should an employee who develops an invention in the course of his contractual duties receive a special monetary reward for the contribution which that invention has made to his employer 's business ? |
| 20 | IT IS hardly surprising Graham Taylor has appealed to his players to shoot on sight against Turkey tomorrow . |
| 21 | To ask the Minister of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food what response he has had to his recent policy document ’ Our Farming Future ’ . |
| 22 | What is the purpose , for example , of awarding compensation to a person who has acted to his detriment in reliance upon another 's words or conduct when the parties have not reached an agreement ? |
| 23 | The Plaintiff relies on proprietary estoppel the principle of which , in its broadest form , may be stated as follows ; where one person , A , has acted to his detriment on the faith of a belief , which was known to and encouraged by another person , B , that he either has or is going to be given a right in or over B 's property , B can not insist on his strict legal rights if to do so would be inconsistent with A 's belief . |
| 24 | Købke had a brief life ( 1810–48 ) and his body of work is correspondingly restricted , which no doubt has contributed to his neglect . |
| 25 | Contributory negligence is where the plaintiff 's fault has contributed to his damage and the damages awarded are reduced in proportion to his fault . |
| 26 | Jim never escapes the torment of self-doubt , even when in the remote kingdom of Patusan he has given all his energy and his intelligence , as well as his physical courage , to settling internal feuds and establishing prosperity — when , in fact , he has become to his people ‘ Lord Jim ’ . |
| 27 | A compositor is employed as a compositor ; a machine-minder ( printer ) likewise has to keep to his own job ; the print union is a strong one — and very jealously guard the many gains won by them for their members . |
| 28 | Mr Lamont has stuck to his public spending target of £244.5 billion but he should have increased that . |
| 29 | Binchy 's father , a lawyer , had warned her never to put anyone real into her fiction , and she has stuck to his advice with only minor deviations : Benny in Circle of Friends was in part a self-portrait — a safe enough liberty ; and a mean friend of her mother found her way , disguised , into The Lilac Bus . |
| 30 | But John King has stuck to his principles and Rovers have strung together an impressive home record . |