Example sentences of "much to his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nigel was flagging , but much to his relief the man took over and delivered an admirable lecture on French surrealist poetry . |
| 2 | Much to his surprise she chatted to him quite amicably for a change . |
| 3 | Gina returned , bearing a decent-looking slice from a Victoria sponge , much to his surprise . |
| 4 | As a result , although his club was one of the first to develop Smiley culture , much to his relief Danny never became a tabloid Mr Big . |
| 5 | London Assurance owed much to his ability to hammer a text into presentable shape . |
| 6 | Much to his horror he was swept off his fret and sent flying through the corridors by a roomful of water . |
| 7 | David Sutherland , much to his annoyance , had been left out of raiding activities and was put in charge of training the SBS contingent for water-borne operations in the Mediterranean . |
| 8 | He tells also of a lady at a dance whose partner thought she had dropped her pearls only to find , much to his consternation and her confusion , that they were the ubiquitous globules of mercury . |
| 9 | Pitsligo died there in 1767 , head , much to his surprise , still firmly attached to his unrepentant shoulders . |
| 10 | Much to his surprise , the oil did not sting . |
| 11 | Much to his surprise , he found Burn was already staying there but ‘ laid up with a severe illness ’ , so he arranged to meet him on the following Monday . |
| 12 | Much to his regret , his last interview — with Houston detectives — earned him a trip to the county jail . . |
| 13 | Much to his credit , the author is even-handed in his criticism of conservative evangelical and ecumenical groups for the rationalisations ( theological and promotional ) which both employ in justifying or covering up non-growth situations ’ ( IRM April 1971:127 ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He jumped , much to his partner 's relief . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ’ . |
| 19 | Michael was fostered when he was six , only to have it break down , much to his devastation . |
| 20 | Arnold Leese 's anti-semitism owed much to his hatred of Jewish methods of slaugh-tering animals and the cruelty that he believed resulted . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | MINTON 'S success as a commercial artist owed much to his association with John Lehmann , to whom he had been introduced by Vaughan . |
| 24 | Now that her son had taken over , she showed every sign of treating him in the same way , much to his discomfort . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Much to his surprise , the Doctor simply turned and left , heading back the way Mait had come . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | He bought half a dozen other newspapers and read every word they had printed on the subject , but none added much to his knowledge . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |