Example sentences of "[adv] to his [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She does not pretend that Ben 's ordeal resulted directly from the ban , but she believes it contributed to the chain of events which led inexorably to his present stay in south-east London 's Bethlem Hospital . |
| 2 | He tossed the garment casually on to a chair , and her eyes were drawn inexorably to his broad expanse of chest . |
| 3 | It was the start of a series of events that led finally to his fast exit from America , never to return , and many close to him believe to this day he was eventually ostracized by powerful Hollywood money for bringing the film industry into such disrepute . |
| 4 | After a long day at the office Richard likes nothing more than to drive home to his little pad in Huntley for a quiet night in with 21 year old , Sarah . |
| 5 | He works from dawn to dusk and then , for recreation , goes home to his little cottage in the grounds and tends his own little garden , growing prize specimens for the local show . |
| 6 | We do n't know exactly where but it must have been close , as he dragged himself home to his favourite spot on the lawn where his life ebbed out of him in the quiet of the night . |
| 7 | Even this demanding job left energy for much else , and at this time he began to organise art exhibitions , building on his own strong interest in the visual arts which had been fired by visits to Florence and Venice and by the mammoth Van Gogh show in the 1950s , and which led early to his abiding love of the Italian Renaissance giants and of such British artists as Prunella Clough , Keith Vaughan and RobertMedley . |
| 8 | We should take this to refer not only to Bacon 's schemes for collaboration in natural philosophy , schemes actually embodied in the existence of the Royal Society , but also to his very conception of that subject . |
| 9 | Written in June 1936 , " Secrets de l'Espagne " , Nizan 's extended analysis of the Spanish situation for La Correspondance internationale , bears witness not only to his perceptiveness ( " There is emerging on the Republican horizon a fascist bid for power the conditions for which are being prepared by the social unrest orchestrated by the right " ) , but also to his enormous talent as a political reporter . |
| 10 | His arms tightening around her , he clasped her tenderly to his hard body with an intoxicating mixture of desperate longing and tender protectiveness . |
| 11 | Dignity right now seemed a bit optimistic , when she could feel her eyes blurring over with tears , but anything was better than standing here at the foot of the stairs , rooted to the spot and subjected mercilessly to his naked inspection of her . |
| 12 | The linocuts of Brighton , the town which appealed most to his strong sense of the fantastical ? |
| 13 | It shows Brutus adept in the use of rhetoric and looking forward to his public defence of Caesar 's assassination to the Roman crowd . |