Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [pron] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He ingratiates himself to the hapless couple , putting them completely at ease . |
| 2 | Again , the way he applies it to the specific case of popular music poses problems : the utopian promise which , for Adorno , is the mark of great art 's autonomy is in his view relevant to popular music solely by its absence , for here , he thinks , social control of music 's meaning and function has become absolute , musical form a reified reflection of manipulative social structures ; and this moment in the historical process actually represents , in effect , the end of history — the possibility of movement by way of contradiction and critique has disappeared . |
| 3 | He applies it to the particular case of young people living with their parents after marriage , by arguing that in the expanding industrial towns there was every opportunity for young people to be wage earners and therefore to be net contributors to the parental household , at a time when wages were at a very low level . |
| 4 | That wretched man steals anything that 's of good quality that he can get his hands on — not for himself since they 're usually things that do n't fit him — he sells them to the second-hand clothes stalls on San Lorenzo market . ’ |
| 5 | He leaves it to the local man : the local man , whose tremulous reliance on a few patented drugs Hamilton observes with a speechless sneer . |
| 6 | What he has done is describe certain linguistic features of the text which distinguish it from other texts ( he refers to Yeats 's ‘ Phoenix ’ and Tennyson 's , ‘ Morte d'Arthur ’ , as well as instances of non-literary usage ) , and which look as if they may be of some literary significance ; but he leaves it to the literary specialist to determine what the nature of that literary significance is . |