Example sentences of "[noun] he [verb] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With swift steps he crossed to the glazed door and saw her crouched before a flowerbed , apparently engrossed in the task of tugging weeds from between the flowering rose bushes . |
| 2 | With heartfelt thanks he ran to the stable and , before his parents had gone more than a few yards , he had galloped past them towards his home . |
| 3 | The next day at lunch he referred to the previous day as bringing " tears in the morning and tears at night . " |
| 4 | Webb , and others , stressed the amount of work he gave to the poor . |
| 5 | In Leicestershire , the man who wishes to forget income-tax , hydrogen bombs and the relentless onward march of science walks the field-paths , to which special maps and guides are provided ; in Devon he takes to the deep lanes between the farms . |
| 6 | In the same vein he wrote to the papal legate in 1095 : |
| 7 | Following a spell in Romford he went to the new Walton Heath course in 1904 where he stayed until his death in 1950 , aged 80 . |
| 8 | For the remaining 47% he turned to the Norwegian shipping magnate Fred Olsen who coughed up a £12 million stake in the yards . |
| 9 | In standing out for true sportsmanship on the field Mr Chapman , loyally backed by his players , set a standard which has raised the sport he loved to the highest level , and has won for him the gratitude of sportsmen the world over . ’ |
| 10 | So in July he announced to the American public : " we intend to honour our commitments " ( to West Germany and West Berlin ) and called for a build-up of American forces . |
| 11 | Here is an example from a question he put to the prime minister on 9 July 1992 : |
| 12 | After the final curtain he went to the local hospital to have the wound attended to . |
| 13 | And the smile he gave to the frozen victim of his indecent amusement was pure poison . |
| 14 | Philip accepted my idea , and incorporated it into a memorable paper he gave to the Royal Archaeological Institute in 1955 ( published in Arch . |
| 15 | An individual scientist 's decision will depend on the priority he gives to the various factors . |
| 16 | It was people like this who crucified Jesus , because they hated the mercy he showed to the common people . |
| 17 | Other works in the Gothic style included the tomb chamber he added to the sixteenth-century chapel at his own house of The Vyne c .1756 , to receive a monument to his ancestor Chaloner Chute ( d . |
| 18 | In Mr Wakil 's first speech to Parliament he referred to the Five Year plan , in which an expansion of broadcasting was projected . |
| 19 | This latter amount he left to the five daughters of Edward Warren , Lord of the Manor . |
| 20 | Labour leaked a letter he sent to the Welsh Secretary , revealing he intends to save money by abandoning national standards governing the size of schools and playgrounds . |
| 21 | Thongsouk Saysangkhi : former Deputy Minister of Science and Technology , he was arrested on 8 October 1990 in the capital , Vientiane , following the circulation of a letter he wrote to the then Prime Minister Kaysone Phomvihan , asking to resign from his government post and from the ruling Lao People 's Revolutionary Part . |
| 22 | Through the winter of 1940–41 , Lieutenant Courtney trained his Special Boat Section attached to 8 Commando , and with a second-in-command and 15 men he went to the Middle East in February 1941 . |
| 23 | In attempting to deflect opinion from the disappointments of the previous winter and the lack of prospect of an early end of the war and to revamp morale through blaming others for Germany 's misfortunes — much as he had done in the years before 1933 — Hitler had lifted a corner of the veil of the ‘ Führer myth ’ and revealed a glimpse of the arbitrary , dictatorial , and irrational way he responded to the first reverses he and the nation had had to suffer . |
| 24 | The next year he returned to the Foreign Office as Deputy Under-Secretary , with special responsibility for relations with the USSR and Eastern Europe . |
| 25 | Perhaps he ought to remember those days and get around to living up to the promise he made to the last Tory conference . |
| 26 | He continues to serve a 14-year sentence because of reports he sent to the British Broadcasting Corporation and for ‘ possession of anti-government literature ’ . |
| 27 | Exasperated by what he saw as Theo 's heartless neglect of him , he unleashed a volley of angry questions to a brother he relegated to the third person : ‘ Why does n't he write ? |
| 28 | But it was a good scene and , by the time he got to the Hooded Owl speech , he was back on course . |
| 29 | He sank into the waiting limo unshaven , crumpled , white-faced , nervous , shattered and by the time he got to the posh Beverly Hills Hotel , in need of the complimentary bottle of Scotch a thoughtful management had left in his room . |
| 30 | By the time he got to the oldest , a tiresome socialite friend of his mother 's , he started : ‘ I do n't think much … . ’ |