Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] [adj] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a news conference on Sept. 12 held to coincide with an emergency meeting of pro-Israel lobby groups in Washington , Bush said that he had " worn out the telephone " in lobbying Republican senators for their support in securing a delay which he regarded as crucial to the peace process , but that he was " up against some powerful political forces " . |
| 2 | Little or nothing escapes his eye and that makes any book he writes doubly valuable to the serious students of railway history . |
| 3 | He stands disconcertingly close to the action , hands deep in his pockets , weight well back on his heels . |
| 4 | As an apologist , he seems totally blind to the fact that the New Testament is just such a collection of old books , which require , if we are to understand them aright , patience and a willingness to listen to scholars who have meditated for a long time on the nature of the ( often quite puzzling and contradictory ) material which they contain . |
| 5 | And around this same period , an Englishman reading in the public library at Bagnères came upon an account of the battle of Toulouse in the Napoleonic wars which he thought too favourable to the French , and annotated it accordingly in the interests of accuracy . |
| 6 | He feels so close to the nature of the place that he is photographed on the jacket of his book wearing a curious hat and holding the tusk of a wild pig . |
| 7 | He gave so much to the side : speed , commitment , control and continuity ’ . |
| 8 | He forces you to work at controlling the character because he brings so much to the part . ’ |
| 9 | However , in his central theology and sense of the nature of religion in general and Catholicism in particular , he remained extraordinarily faithful to the papacy of Pius XII during which he had been trained and ordained . |
| 10 | He had apparently kept diaries from the beginning of 1870 until his death , but he remained totally unknown to the public until the publication of a selection from these diaries in a three-volume edition , edited by William Plomer [ q.v. ] , in 1938–40 . |