Example sentences of "[subord] he [vb past] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 , |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He climbed the three steps to the door , and pushed at it , but it was securely locked , so he went to the nearest window . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Ian pressed on down the passage , down two steps , until he came to the small wooden door in the fabric . |
| 7 | He ran on until he came to the tall reeds . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Charlie ignored the order and crawled quickly forward until he came to the prostrate body of his friend . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He walked silently along the thickly carpeted floor until he came to the last cubicle . |
| 12 | He grabbed his passport but did n't open it until he got to the Hungarian border . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He asked him if he belonged to the loyalist section of the population and he replied that he did . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ You draw good pictures , ’ said the boy , turning over the pages of the note-book till he came to the whole page drawing of a pheasant , the cock pheasant that Philip had coloured in at home . |
| 18 | He was thinking while he listened to the logical thought processes of Leon Gusev . |
| 19 | This type of locomotive was repeated by him after he transferred to the Caledonian Railway in 1882 and was further developed by his successors on that railway for the next thirty years . |
| 20 | Before he got to the real problem . |
| 21 | When he returned to the two worried women , decisions were made . |
| 22 | When he got to the High Street , he saw Hasan and Aziz walking up to the Common . |
| 23 | ‘ And when he got to the last slide , ’ Channell recalled , ‘ he suddenly became so powerfully emotive it was just like his whole spirit exploded . |
| 24 | When he got to the fourth screen he stood it up for her to inspect . |
| 25 | Later that month industry minister Edward Leigh signalled a hardening of the Government 's position when he wrote to The Northern Echo outlining its case . |
| 26 | The right hon. Gentleman said that , when he went to the European Parliament in 1987 , he was , to say the least , a reluctant European . |
| 27 | The lavish reception afforded to Fidel Castro himself when he went to the Soviet Union the following year is well known , and it was during this visit that he was guaranteed economic concessions , notably a rise in the price paid for Cuban sugar . |
| 28 | Subsequently , Gorbachev left Ryzhkov looking even more embattled when he announced to the Supreme Soviet that he personally preferred Shatalin 's programme . |
| 29 | When he succeeded to the English throne in 1272 Edward I was already in his thirties and a man of wide experience . |
| 30 | As he gave out his text , his voice rose like a steam of rich distilled perfumes , ’ and when he came to the two last words , which he pronounced loud , deep , and distinct , it seemed to me , who was then young , as if the sounds had echoed from the bottom of the human heart , and as if that prayer might have floated in solemn silence through the universe . |