Example sentences of "he [adv] [verb] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He rarely survived to the final reel , because the notion of Van Cleef nobly agreeing to a duel in a deserted street was ridiculous . |
| 2 | ‘ A concession he obviously exercised to the full , ’ she contented herself with murmuring instead , her eyes dancing with amusement as she enjoyed his discomfort , a feeling of relief pervading her that she was about to locate Suzie at last . |
| 3 | He only comes to the odd party . |
| 4 | He just moved to the other side of the bed , and lay on his back . |
| 5 | He finally bowed to the inevitable after revelation upon revelation about his seedy affair with soft-porn starlet Antonia de Sancha and freebie holidays hosted by PLO chief 's daughter Mona Bauwens and an Arab sheik . |
| 6 | He finally bowed to the inevitable after 61 minutes , when he was visibly hobbling around . |
| 7 | Winchester 's next posting was to Cyprus to build defences , but he soon returned to the Western Desert , where , between May and September , he was involved in desperate rearguard actions — the battle of Gazala , followed by Alamein in July , when Auchinleck checked Rommel , who was then within striking distance of Alexandria . |
| 8 | He thus returned to the Soviet capital under very different circumstances from his last visit 22 years earlier , when he had been brought to Moscow and forced to give his approval to the invasion . |
| 9 | He promptly keeled to the left and slumped in the driving seat with a smile on his face . |
| 10 | Did he ever give to the poor ? |
| 11 | He had been seen in Wales by a DJ who had suggested that he look him up , should he ever come to the big city . |
| 12 | On 21st September 1904 , the great Nez Perce headman suffered a heart attack while sitting beside the fire in the tipi at Nespelem that he still preferred to the white man 's house . |
| 13 | He gradually inclined to the moderate party in the Lords while supporting the Commons in the removal of the instruments of royal despotism . |
| 14 | The elder Pinney , owner of the largest sugar plantations in Nevis , would certainly have been less pliable had he realized that his sons were allowing the new tenants to have Racedown rent-free ; but in the event he quickly warmed to the young poet , and welcomed him as a guest to the family 's town house in Bristol during the autumn of 1795 , the period which first brought Wordsworth into contact with both Coleridge and Southey.7sup18 ; |
| 15 | He quickly crossed to the peak-time Burke Report , and from there landed a plum assistant producer 's job on the pop-science flagship Tomorrow 's World . |
| 16 | Democracy might not be much , in his view , but everything else is worse ; and a robber-baron , as he once remarked to the Marxist scientist J. B. S. Haldane , is better than an inquisitor , since greed sleeps easier than dogmatic certainty : ‘ where Mammon vacates the throne , how if Moloch takes his place ? ’ |
| 17 | He also objects to the now-common term ‘ mothering ’ . |
| 18 | He also points to the ecological problems that this industrialisation of farming and forestry has brought about , to the increased reliance that has to be placed on chemical pest and disease control under monocultures . |
| 19 | He also appealed to the federal government to address the grievances of the Indians , which included land compensation claims and poor living conditions . |
| 20 | Sir Rhodes said he also objected to the Labour Party ‘ playing politics ’ with the vote when it should simply be about the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 21 | He also pointed to the substantive efforts being made to rectify the situation . |
| 22 | He also pointed to the legislative enactments which , together with social ( and anti-social ) pressures , have dogged gypsies : |
| 23 | By November , however , he had enlisted in the Royal Engineers , from which he later transferred to the 18th King 's Royal Rifles . |
| 24 | The chief constable can not be a party to the appeal , unless he formerly objected to the original application ( Hutcheon , cit . ) . |
| 25 | He was in a good frame of mind : he often referred to the royal garden party when he was in a good frame of mind . |
| 26 | He now appealed to the ancient enemy of the Ukraine , Poland , to clear the land of all Russian forces — and offered as reward the concession of eastern Galicia to Poland . |
| 27 | As a diplomat and administrator he really belonged to the Imperialist age before the discovery of oil and could be rather paternalistic in his attitudes . |
| 28 | Looking back , Gorbachev was prepared to acknowledge ‘ mistakes in tactics ’ ; but although he travelled more widely throughout the country than previous Soviet leaders , he was also guilty of some remarkably insensitive mistakes ( as when he twice referred to the Soviet Union as ‘ Russia ’ during a visit to the Ukraine ) . |
| 29 | He then came to the Ottoman domains , an event which Asikpasazade and Nesri assign to the reign of Mehmed I ( 816–24/1413–21 ) . |
| 30 | He then went to the cool cabinet at the rear of the shop , took out a can of lager and put it in his pocket . |