Example sentences of "his [noun] to [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It ‘ betrayed ’ Isildur to the arrows of the orcs ; it ‘ abandoned ’ Gollum , says Gandalf , in response to the ‘ dark thought from Mirkwood ’ of its master ; it all but betrays Frodo in the Prancing Pony when it slips on to his finger and proves his invisibility to the spies for the Nazgûl then present . |
| 2 | To Isobel 's surprise he went beetroot red , flushing from the collar of his shirt to the roots of his now receding hair . |
| 3 | Christina saw her husband gradually relax and begin to enjoy himself , tapping his foot to the strains of a calypso floating towards them from the dance-floor on the piazza outside . |
| 4 | The radicals of the Agency committee were as concerned as Buxton in his plea to the slaves on the eve of their emancipation that they ‘ by every motive of duty , gratitude and self interest … do their part towards the peaceful termination of their bondage ’ . |
| 5 | Following extensive feasibility studies into timetabling arrangements and the technical aspects of the assessment proposals , the Secretary of State produced his response to the reports in 1980 in the shape of a circular from SED ( No. 10/93 ) which included these words : |
| 6 | The former phrase was coined by Thoreau to indicate his resistance to the laws of the state , and it was the title of an essay by him which Gandhi read after he had started to resist the South African authorities . |
| 7 | The Ajdabiya shaikh of one of the lineages involved confirmed the story : he was on the point of departure for Kufra to lend his weight to the representatives of reason and peace . |
| 8 | The boy , however , took no notice of her but raised his eyes to the bottles on the shelves and said , ‘ Acid drops . ’ |
| 9 | However , his voyages as supercargo on ships in the ‘ country trade ’ between India and China opened his eyes to the opportunities in Singapore and Canton . |
| 10 | He opened his mind to the sounds of the city . |
| 11 | Having risen from Ukrainian coal mines through the party ranks as a tough and brutal Stalinist , once he achieved personal power he wasted no time in opening his mind to the ways of the rest of the world . |
| 12 | Then the Principal gave his mind to the arrangements for a Moral Re-Armament inter-racial international assembly , to which his university will play host next June . |
| 13 | Hrun dropped his gaze to the rings on her hand . |
| 14 | And then he closed the court and turned his mind and his emotions to the pleasures of the day , literary or social . |
| 15 | He explained how , in order to achieve such success , he had appreciated the importance of providing these treasures with conditions similar to their native habitat and ensuring their protection from frost — lessons well learned from his visits to the gardens of Collinson and Miller during his busy ‘ doctoring ’ days . |
| 16 | She was pushing his body to the limits of its endurance to divert and ease the strain on his spirit . |
| 17 | Nine years ago when the pair met in Montreal , Leonard taunted his opponent to the limits of frustration and Duran walked out after eight rounds calling : ‘ No mas . ’ |
| 18 | BEING dubbed ‘ The World 's Sexiest Man ’ created a lot of problems for Mel Gibson , who has turned his cheeks to the cameras in several films . |
| 19 | In English Hop Growers Ltd v Dering [ 1928 ] 2 KB 174 the Court of Appeal had to consider an agreement under which the defendant contracted to sell his crop to the plaintiffs for a period of five years . |
| 20 | On the first world tour in 1872–3 Thomas Cook filed several reports of his travels to The Times in a series called ‘ Letters from the Sea and from Foreign Lands ’ . |
| 21 | The disappointment in the Athens camp has bordered on bitterness and I asked the mayor of Atlanta , Maynard Jackson for his reaction to the words of one Athens delegate who described the Atlanta decision as a win for Coca Cola and a loss for the Olympic ideal . |
| 22 | In his outpourings to the readers of Ink he had compared bureaucrats to the police , the army and prison officers . |
| 23 | Deep furrows ran from beside his nose to the corners of his mouth ; they suggested experience , command , impatience with fools . |
| 24 | All his probing to the roots of religion had discovered simply the bankruptcy of those roots , or at least their apparent irrelevance to the job of finding a meaning in modern life . |
| 25 | If England feared Spain , for the Scottish Protestants Henri II became a very present menace ; for through his daughter-in-law Mary he might turn his attention to the Calvinists in Scotland as well as those in France . |
| 26 | The Chairman then turned his attention to the accounts for 1990 , which showed that the Institution had fared extremely well , in spite of inflation . |
| 27 | It probably dates from after 1864 when Henry Pease turned his attention to the gardens of the mansion he had been enlarging and improving since 1846 . |
| 28 | In the final chapter of this section Lowe turns his attention to the achievements of the welfare state in this ‘ golden age ’ . |
| 29 | A responsible staff … should have called his attention to the violations of his own policies and warned that the intelligence about Iran was fragile at best and obtained from parties with strong interests and biases of their own . ’ |
| 30 | Karl turned and walked back along the other side of the garden , although this time Erika did not draw his attention to the words of Josef Stalin paying tribute to glorious workers , doctors , nurses , and so on . |