Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] to his [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That led to his selection for the 1990 district championship in the North and Midlands side and also this season he has played twice for Scotland ‘ B ’ , scoring a try in each match . |
| 2 | This led to his appointment by the home secretary to a commission on explosions of compressed gas cylinders ( 1895–6 ) . |
| 3 | King was a minor poet and staunch Royalist ; this led to his flight from Chichester at the time of the Cromwellian bombardment of the city . |
| 4 | This added to his ascendancy over the tyros round his Cabinet table in the autumn of 1964 , as he now acknowledges . |
| 5 | Regarding his illness , Saw commented ‘ that this conformed to his idea of Aung San 's character … [ he will ] always be sick when anything big is on hand ’ . |
| 6 | In the hope of forestalling this he was urged by the Japanese to retreat to his stronghold of Manchuria and establish himself as ruler of an autonomous Manchuria under Japanese tutelage . |
| 7 | Feeling frightened by his experience , he was relieved to return to his family in the booking office . |
| 8 | His outspoken defence of Queen Caroline in 1820–1 led to his portrayal among her champions in an engraving by Francis Holl after Abraham Wivell [ qq.v . ] . |
| 9 | When a British citizen might seek redress for a grievance through his MP , the West German is likely to turn to his representative in the regional assembly or Landtag . |
| 10 | The black-backed superb warbler , the graceful ptilotis , red throat , white-fronted honey-eater , and chestnut-backed ground thrush all fell to his gun in these few exhausting but rewarding weeks . |
| 11 | After leaving me outside a restaurant in the theatre district while he and his friends dined inside with Oliver Wendell Holmes or P.T. Barnum , I realized it was stupid to pander to his interest in aesthetics . |
| 12 | I want to be able to go to his grave on the day of his death . |
| 13 | Mr Collier was last seen alive on June 6 returning to his flat with another man whom police are trying to trace . |
| 14 | The most contentious ideas advanced by Preobrazhensky were those relating to his theory of ‘ primitive socialist accumulation ’ . |
| 15 | Ken was among the first to rush to his bedside in the psychiatric ward of the Middlesex Hospital . |
| 16 | His growing disillusion with Mosley in the later 1930s led to his resignation from the movement and the collapse of his revolutionary faith . |
| 17 | Local priest Fr Dermot Britton said he understood the remains of an altar had been found but he did not think it necessary to talk to his congregation about the issue of Black Magic . |
| 18 | Those that he produced for sale through the Redfern Gallery were usually printed in editions of fifty and include Thames-side , Bull Fight , Spain , Tropical Landscape , Horse Guards in their Dressing Rooms at Whitehall and Working Men 's College , this last relating to his association with the Working Men 's College in Crowndale Road , Mornington Crescent , where he gave a lecture , ‘ The Painter 's Intention ’ , in 1952 , taught lithography and also acted as Art Adviser . |
| 19 | Applying both trust and agency principles , the court concluded that an insider who traded on the basis of material nonpublic information was liable to account to his corporation for the profits . |
| 20 | Because of this , it went on , the city was bound to him for life and death and was now ready to spring to his assistance with a great display of strength . |