Example sentences of "[subord] he [verb] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just a brief response to a small part of Iain MacLaren 's letter , where he refers to the Royal Navy abandoning hammocks not long after the Second World War . |
| 2 | He has set up a pirate radio station in his bedroom , where he talks to the disaffected youth of his neighbourhood under the guise of Happy Harry Hard-On . |
| 3 | Yet Sidonius belonged to the same aristocratic class as Salvian and the early ascetics of Lérins , although he belonged to a younger generation . |
| 4 | These illustrations show slightly more freedom in architectural treatment than Scott used in the competition , as The Civil Engineer and Architects ' Journal said , although he adhered to the general principle of uniformity , |
| 5 | His parents are well-off farmers in Somerset , and although he went to the prestigious Ampleforth school , he spent only a year after taking his A levels at agricultural college before becoming a BMW car salesman . |
| 6 | Allen climbed a tree but although he climbed to a high bough and hung there swaying like a squirrel they were in a low-lying bowl of forest and he could see neither the Smoke nor the last rays of the westering sun but only leaves . |
| 7 | Although there is no clear evidence , reference made in Van Gogh 's letters indicates that the sexton 's house was on the north side of Turnham Green ( now Acton Green ) , and although he referred to a Methodist school , in all probability the church at Turnham Green was another of the non-conforming denominations and it seems likely that the little wooden church at Turnham Green , which he had sketched , was the earliest Congregational Church , sited off Chiswick High Road , opposite to its junction with Chiswick Road , and just west of King 's Place , The little church was probably in use prior to the erection , in 1878 , of the large Congregational Church on the adjoining sit . |
| 8 | He climbed the three steps to the door , and pushed at it , but it was securely locked , so he went to the nearest window . |
| 9 | He could understand — so he said to the top brass after the Frenchman had departed — why the French took exception to an Englishman holding such a key position in Europe . |
| 10 | But he could n't , so he climbed to the disabled man 's perch , and began a sensitive , confident probe , and discovered quite soon how far the man had progressed , and finished the work , fast and easily . |
| 11 | Ian pressed on down the passage , down two steps , until he came to the small wooden door in the fabric . |
| 12 | He ran on until he came to the tall reeds . |
| 13 | Martin walked carefully along a narrow path that would tortuously between ancient graves and heavy , ornate tombstones until he came to the first of the family plots . |
| 14 | Charlie ignored the order and crawled quickly forward until he came to the prostrate body of his friend . |
| 15 | But instead of releasing it he began to kiss each finger in turn until he came to the pale circle on the third finger of her left hand . |
| 16 | He walked silently along the thickly carpeted floor until he came to the last cubicle . |
| 17 | He grabbed his passport but did n't open it until he got to the Hungarian border . |
| 18 | He drives on until he comes to an open square with people eating at tables under the trees . |
| 19 | There was the famous occasion when he picked at a wall behind a bus stop while waiting for a bus and found a rare specimen fossil ; and the occasion when he cut his leg while climbing a rockface at Craigleith Quarry and failed to notice it until his Wellington boot was full of blood , whereupon he drove to the nearest hospital for stitches and a transfusion . |
| 20 | He asked him if he belonged to the loyalist section of the population and he replied that he did . |
| 21 | He asked dealers at random to deliver the goods , and berated anyone who was obviously unprepared , particularly if he belonged to the streetwise contingent whose daily newspaper tended to be the Daily Mirror or The Sun . |
| 22 | As the hon. Member for Livingston can promise his hon. Friends nothing about money , he could not prevent that from happening if he returned to the old system . |
| 23 | I 'm not sure if he went to an established rap school , although it 's more likely that he 's a self-taught man . |
| 24 | If he points to the empty box then it is probably fair to regard this as deliberate misinforming , as the ‘ implanting ’ of a false belief in another 's mind . |
| 25 | The only way you can do that is if he goes to a special unit at Maidstone and works |
| 26 | In King Ine 's laws the smith was rated as the equal of the reeve and a child 's nurse , who , being servants , could be taken with a gesithcund man if he moved to a different area ( ibid. p. 104 ) . |
| 27 | Avoiding the foods in question may be quite difficult , especially at school or with friends , and you may wish to reconsider other options , especially if your child is not affected all that severely or if he reacts to a great many foods . |
| 28 | It was only because he belonged to a good-hearted owner , Mrs Prentice , the wife of a local solicitor , that Bill had persevered with him . |
| 29 | A member of the Kufra trading community would not accept the guarantee of a very senior officer in Benghazi because he belonged to a different section of the Zuwaya . |
| 30 | So the boy climbed up the hill till he came to an enormous lake . |