Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [noun] to his [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The skilled man was one who had acquired ‘ a general use of the tools employed in his trade ’ ( even though this was not necessarily of use to his employer ) which would give him ‘ adaptability ’ . |
| 2 | After all , the supplier 's products are only of benefit to his customer because the " end user " perceives them to be acceptable . |
| 3 | He exhibits a number of adjectives which differ in precisely the way required while maintaining the same or essentially the same lexical value ( we modify his examples slightly where it is possible to do so without damage to his case , so as to make the distinction sharper ) : ( 19 ) visible stars vs stars visible the only navigable rivers vs the only rivers navigable a handy tool vs are your tools handy ? guilty people vs people guilty As it happens , the examples which Bolinger uses employ words which can make the distinction a rather subtle one , with perhaps the exception of visible stars ( a group recognized astronomically ) beside stars visible ; but it is quite easy to produce further instances which seem to confirm his view : ( 20 ) a complaining visitor vs a visitor complaining the eligible bachelor vs the bachelor eligible In other cases , the divergence of lexical value between the two positions may be greater but still with the characteristic value for the former , and the occasion value for the latter : ( 21 ) the responsible man vs the man responsible a sorry sight vs the girl is sorry He notes that the acceptability of an adjective in pre-adjunct position may apparently depend on whether or not it can be regarded as indicating a relatively enduring characteristic of what is expressed by the noun , as in : ( 22 ) the faint girl vs the girl is faint an asleep man vs a man asleep This possibility of course depends not only on the adjective itself but also on the nature of the noun being qualified , so that " when one scratches one 's head the result is not *a scratched head but when one scores a glass surface the result is a scratched surface " . |
| 4 | Souness first hit the headlines as a teenager when he absconded from his first club Tottenham Hotspur and ran away from London to his home in Edinburgh . |
| 5 | She slid a hand through her newly washed hair and her eyes rolled desperately from Dexter to his boss . |
| 6 | In typical style Shaheen had commissioned the QE2 to take a large party of people to the opening and offered me a cabin on her , but as I could not spare the time and was not sure that I would be entirely at home with my fellow passengers , I flew over in response to his invitation . |
| 7 | Mrs Bennett ( formerly Miss Green ) told me of her Uncle Alf Monk who as a young apprentice working in London , would , on finishing work on Friday , walk home from London to his home in Essex Road . |
| 8 | Norman Williamson who rode him at Leopardstown , observed afterwards that he was a National horse when talking to Richard Dunwoody about the race and if Richards has retained his old magic , then there could quite well be another National winner destined to return home in triumph to his Lake District stables . |
| 9 | Stefan Campeanu , forty years old and a leader of the Peasants ' Party , made his way home on foot to his apartment by his usual route , at his normal time . |
| 10 | Jackie had no chance to give them his expert advice because the triangle sounded for the afternoon shift , and he was carried off by Biff to his office for the rest of the day and most of the night . |
| 11 | And it might go away if he did n't listen keenly , feed it perhaps with the energy of his life , stoke it up with risks to his health and even to his sanity . |
| 12 | Although the sons of Zebedee were evidently netsmen , Christian iconography has drawn on angling to depict anything from the means of grace by which God draws our souls up into Heaven to His ensnaring of the monstrous Leviathan . |
| 13 | Questions like these in the consultant 's mind led to fanning a small positive spark in seemingly totally negative behaviour , and this made a difference to Mr E both in relation to his colleagues in the group , and as Dave 's teacher to whom a way out of a vicious circle of perpetual defeat could in this way be illustrated , again without explicitly referring to the analogy of the situation . |
| 14 | A side effect of such a procedure would be to strengthen the position of the individual auditor both in relation to his clients and to his ‘ partner equivalents ’ ; in today 's highly competitive audit market , the auditor does encounter clients who exert considerable pressure to accept controversial accounting practices . |
| 15 | Chramn used his position in Aquitaine to set himself up in opposition to his father , Chlothar I , who sent his half-brothers to destroy him . |
| 16 | hi er he 's got to go , he 's got his annual medical , it 's a very high-powered erm thing in Dundee on Tuesday , so Anne said that she would like to come up with him , potter about Dundee while he 's having his medical then they will come here on Tuesday evening , or late Tuesday afternoon , and we go out for a meal , and then of course , she 'll be with me all day on Thursday because he goes back up to Dundee to his managers ' meeting , you see . |
| 17 | The fact that he was black and a Tory gave him a value out of proportion to his contribution to the local Party , so he was frequently trotted out at functions , and encouraged to ask questions of visiting speakers . |
| 18 | He would be missed to a degree all out of proportion to his usefulness . |
| 19 | However , Raúl ‘ was excluded from all secret policy planning and decision-making ’ ( Szulc : 1986 , p. 154 ) , and when he joined Fidel 's movement in July 1953 ( primarily , it seems out of loyalty to his brother rather than conviction as to the political correctness of the enterprise ) he did not tell the Communists what he was doing ( Lockwood : 1969 , p. 163 ; Szulc : 1986 , p. 181 ) . |
| 20 | She had not pressed for a statement at Westminster out of respect to his family . |
| 21 | It was your father , were n't it , Miss , as sent Master Harry out to America to his relatives ? ’ |
| 22 | To say nothing of his general right of liberty or reputation , his rights as a husband or a parent are not proprietary rights , nor is his right to recover damages for personal injury or defamation ; but we may include among proprietary rights the right to recover damages though unliquidated ( i.e. of uncertain amount until settled by a judge or jury ) for breach of contract , or , probably , even for injury to his property . |
| 23 | Sebastian was there in allegiance to his upbringing , too . |