Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [verb] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For all his thinking he came to a sole conclusion . |
| 2 | In the last interview he gave to a French journalist before the war began , Ho , in envisaging the way in which ‘ at all costs war must be averted ’ , seemed to accept independence within the French Union ; although unless this was based on a total misunderstanding of the nature of the French Union , which also seems unlikely , this was probably more of a smoke-screen than a smoke-signal . |
| 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 the same vein he wrote to the papal legate in 1095 : |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | Here is an example from a question he put to the prime minister on 9 July 1992 : |
| 8 | And yet , as may be seen from the cardinal importance he attaches to a Herodotean term like the peri - plus , Pound can be invoked by poets for whom the natural subjectmatter is topographical rather than historical , or at any rate historical only so far as history is checked against , and embodied in , and qualified by , topography . |
| 9 | After the final curtain he went to the local hospital to have the wound attended to . |
| 10 | The following evening he went to a different wine bar and bought drinks for two different young women . |
| 11 | Certainly the driver seemed satisfied enough , she accorded with relief as with a smile he pointed to an illuminated notice indicating that her hotel was at the end of a narrow passageway leading from the main street . |
| 12 | And the smile he gave to the frozen victim of his indecent amusement was pure poison . |
| 13 | Quite often the word ‘ information ’ is used with different meanings , but from the very beginning he sticks to a single interpretation — Shannon information . |
| 14 | Before the wooden boat sank , however , her crew were taken off and treated with the utmost courtesy by Kapitän Leutnant F.K. Paul , who accepted the ML 's surrender : a tribute he paid to a gallant foe , and evidence if this is needed that chivalry is the prerogative of individuals , not nations . |
| 15 | First , in his evidence he referred to a better solution as being quotes , seeks a small residential setting with some other people , unquote and went on to refer to the possibility of the plaintiff entering one of the Cheshire Homes . |
| 16 | I need not refer to his history in any more detail up to June 1990 , but in that month he went to a residential school where his mother continued to visit him and in October 1990 he absconded from that school . |
| 17 | After a short time working for his father he moved to a tool-making factory in Birmingham , where he took up bookmaking in a small way , by collecting bets on his motor bicycle . |
| 18 | Philip accepted my idea , and incorporated it into a memorable paper he gave to the Royal Archaeological Institute in 1955 ( published in Arch . |
| 19 | An individual scientist 's decision will depend on the priority he gives to the various factors . |
| 20 | It was people like this who crucified Jesus , because they hated the mercy he showed to the common people . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Then without another word he pointed to a small metal-bound box and a canvas bag standing side by side , and climbed from the brig down the plank to the quay below . |
| 23 | In Mr Wakil 's first speech to Parliament he referred to the Five Year plan , in which an expansion of broadcasting was projected . |
| 24 | After an hour he came to a small roadside inn that stood on the crest of a shallow hill and , twisting in his saddle , he saw that the inn gave him a good view of the road right to the horizon so that he would see any French pursuit long before it represented any danger . |
| 25 | This latter amount he left to the five daughters of Edward Warren , Lord of the Manor . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | He had held her hand while listening to her political ambitions , giving to them the same care he devoted to a Ministerial Statement in the House . |
| 29 | On his way out of the city he came to a poor crofter 's cottage . |
| 30 | 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 . |