Example sentences of "he [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , it must 've cost him that to take them over there . |
| 2 | He neither gains an ally nor sweetens an enemy , and say she brings but a token household with her , yet it will cost him dear to keep them . |
| 3 | A friend seeing him off from New York on Sunday gave him this to relieve the tension he might face here . |
| 4 | This makes him free to wear whatever ideological clothing suits the fashion of the moment . |
| 5 | An occupier may expect that a person , in the exercise of his calling , will appreciate and guard against any special risks ordinarily incident to it , so far as the occupier leaves him free to do so . |
| 6 | Which left him free to do all the practical work which he really liked . |
| 7 | ( b ) Persons entering in the exercise of a calling Section 2(3) ( b ) states : " An occupier may expect that a person , in the exercise of his calling , will appreciate and guard against any special risks ordinarily incident to it , so far as the occupier leaves him free to do so . " |
| 8 | This leaves him free to claim also that scientific objectivity can lead to the discovery of truth ( Stark 1958 : 126 ) . |
| 9 | It now leaves him free to criticise other results of the massively funded but unregulated conservation industry . |
| 10 | They leave him free to publish his own report . |
| 11 | I left him free to choose and dare |
| 12 | This new sense of topographical security left him free to explore theories about art , the novel in particular , and see his writing as more than ‘ mere journeywork ’ . |
| 13 | Thus we have the permitting conditions : the lack of parental control which might have brought the youth into more conventional alignments rather than setting him free to explore the more extravagant possibilities of a sporting career . |
| 14 | Sir Allen Sheppard , GrandMet chairman , said the disposal leaves him free to focus on the group 's main strategy of ‘ developing highly branded businesses . ’ |
| 15 | A public officer has discretion wherever the effective limits on his power leave him free to make a choice among possible courses of action or inaction . |
| 16 | This left him free to consider specific factors , relationships and techniques in a theoretically less encumbered ( if sometimes dangerously speculative ) way . |
| 17 | Jones ' dismissal was deemed sufficient punishment , leaving him free to play in Sunday 's Regal Trophy tie against Dewsbury . |
| 18 | Bernard could not fail to have been impressed by such spontaneous enthusiasm ; equally , Peter felt Bernard was ‘ obviously a man of excitement heading a most intriguing company , I could see that he needed someone to deal with the administration leaving him free to run his company . ’ |
| 19 | Belonging here defined him , made him free to wander , because here he had roots to return to , an anchor that gave him stability and a sense of permanence . |
| 20 | Trotsky 's final expulsion from the Soviet Union had left him free to encourage groups of supporters elsewhere , though his main concern remained the policies of the Soviet state and Party . |
| 21 | This leaves him free to concentrate on the creative side of cooking while maintaining effective management control . |
| 22 | He was solid , scientific , conscious in all his creating , learning his art from masters who were still in the youth of artistic development , his whole work shows a progress towards an ideal which the trammels of Gothic tradition never left him free to attain without a struggle . |
| 23 | Faced with the implacable hostility of the Dwarfs it seemed to him foolish to maintain huge armies overseas , particularly with a more pressing threat to the Elf heartland . |
| 24 | Three minutes later Jackson broke straight from a scrum and Perry 's pace put him clear to score . |
| 25 | He was more irritated than angry — irritated that the Commissioner 's Office had called him direct to demand an explanation . |
| 26 | In Peter 's case , the whole sad business with Julian had made him jumpy to say the least . |
| 27 | This made him easier to take home for the night ; people who would normally never have approached such a beauty felt that they could . |
| 28 | A win for Kevin in his Skoda at Swansea tomorrow would make him favourite to become National Champion . |
| 29 | Following the completion of Rebel Without a Cause , Warners put him straight to work on his third movie , Giant , an epic directed by George Stevens and featuring a stellar line-up including Elizabeth Taylor , Rock Hudson , Sal Mineo and Carroll Baker . |
| 30 | And there were others less distinguished , perhaps , but whose lively presence made any visit memorable ; for instance , Mr Wilkinson , valet-butler to Mr John Campbell , with his well-known repertoire of impersonations of prominent gentlemen ; Mr Davidson from Easterly House , whose passion in debating a point could at times be as alarming to a stranger as his simple kindness at all other times was endearing ; Mr Herman , valet to Mr John Henry peters , whose extreme views no one could listen to passively , but whose distinctive belly-laugh and Yorkshire charm made him impossible to dislike . |