Example sentences of "[adv] to his " in BNC.
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| 31 | This Sir William 's uncle was a genial and uncomplicated individual of middle years , lacking his late brother 's energy and drive but considerably easier to deal with than his nephew , indeed seeming to find most of life much to his taste . |
| 32 | During her time at Brentwoods , although she had never actually gone to a cinema with another man , she had often entertained or been entertained by members of the opposite sex , usually at lunchtime , occasions which she had afterwards described in detail to Brian , much to his amusement . |
| 33 | He jumped , much to his partner 's relief . |
| 34 | Much to his relief he was finally arrested — and appeared in front of the judge who called for him to be brought before the court back in 1990 . |
| 35 | The problem of transforming Darwin 's pangenetic theory to square it with cytology in general , and with Weismann 's theory in particular , was taken up most systematically by De Vries ; and later developments leading to the theory of the gene were to owe much to his solution : ‘ intracellular pangenesis ’ . |
| 36 | Michael was fostered when he was six , only to have it break down , much to his devastation . |
| 37 | Arnold Leese 's anti-semitism owed much to his hatred of Jewish methods of slaugh-tering animals and the cruelty that he believed resulted . |
| 38 | There were less important engagements as well : he had agreed to give a talk on behalf of the Episcopal Fellowship in Washington , but an announcement of his visit had appeared in the Washington Post and , much to his alarm , the little meeting hall was overflowing with people . |
| 39 | But if this state of comparative retirement owed much to his desire to experience as fully as possible the companionship of marriage , it was also imposed upon him by the demands of his still fragile health . |
| 40 | MINTON 'S success as a commercial artist owed much to his association with John Lehmann , to whom he had been introduced by Vaughan . |
| 41 | Now that her son had taken over , she showed every sign of treating him in the same way , much to his discomfort . |
| 42 | I pulled off my entire six-man defence and , much to his surprise , sent on Reg Pybus as the lone forward and moved the forwards back into defence . |
| 43 | Much to his surprise , the Doctor simply turned and left , heading back the way Mait had come . |
| 44 | The striking exception among the super-egos is Professor Charles Handy , a modest and witty Irishman with a spiritual perspective which owes much to his four years as warden of St George 's House in Windsor Castle , a private study and conference centre in the UK concerned with ethics and values in society . |
| 45 | He bought half a dozen other newspapers and read every word they had printed on the subject , but none added much to his knowledge . |
| 46 | Later developments in the understanding of kinship and lineage relationships owed much to his discussions of this topic , but many of his academic successors — notably ( Sir ) E. E. Evans-Pritchard [ q.v. ] and ( Sir ) E. R. Leach — effectively dismissed his doctrinaire methodology . |
| 47 | Everything expelled from other places found a haven here , including the only good pictures in the house — a couple of Rose Bartons , bought by Aunt Tossie at a Church Sale , were considered quite pretty and of local interest , but insignificant compared with the photographic portrait of the first Nicandra , standing stripped for a gallop , but without Fagan , much to his disappointment , at her head . |
| 48 | The knife did not tip the scales much to his advantage , but even a slim chance was better than none . |
| 49 | After the interview Andrus , much to his surprise , had been released ; but when he left Mahmoud 's office one of Owen 's agents had followed on behind him . |
| 50 | The gardens at Greenlands owe much to his direction and planning and are enjoyed today by course members and staff alike . |
| 51 | Though often condemned as naive , his efforts to conciliate Stalin probably owed much to his estimates of American public opinion and of the likely postwar balance of power in Europe , and his desire to win the war as quickly ( and cheaply in terms of Americans lives ) as possible . |
| 52 | Much to his evident surprise , he was invited back to do another Hancock series , but by then the show was in its death throes and Ken no more wanted to be a part of it than Hancock wanted to have him . |
| 53 | The gardens at Greenlands owe much to his direction and planning and are enjoyed today by course members and staff alike . |
| 54 | He is survived by his wife , Margaret Forbes , whom he married in 1933 , and who contributed to much to his many spheres of activity , and by a son in Australia and a daughter . |
| 55 | Capped for the All Blacks against France about six years ago , McPherson , 30 , actually brought the birth certificates of his Scottish grand-parents with him , but much to his regret he has gone un-noticed by the Scottish selectors . |
| 56 | After the first minutes of trembling outrage , Maldita had stopped behaving as though his fingers were red-hot pokers and reacted almost voluptuously to his touch . |
| 57 | ‘ He still cuts instinctively inside to his left . |
| 58 | When Doctor Staples came , he examined Arty and listened patiently to his self-diagnosis.The doctor neither confirmed nor denied that he was suffering from smallpox — which pleased Arty immensely . |
| 59 | One hour later , after he had been refreshed and had listened patiently to his grateful client 's sad story about the awful life she was leading at the hands of a brutal husband , Broomhead was on his way . |
| 60 | In 1631 it was granted afresh to his widow , Prudence , by King Charles I with the stipulation that a free market was to be held in the district weekly ‘ on the Sabbath day ’ ( ie on Saturdays ) — and Saturday is still the market day . |