Example sentences of "he [verb] a [adj] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 31 | In his buoyant narrative style , his particularly exact , observant eye for detail , his confident concentration on a particular event coloured by emotion but not by an intensity of analysis , he offers a significant contrast to Conrad 's dense , probing accounts of similar events . |
| 32 | His lordship is of the view , as indeed I am myself , that while Father is allowed to continue with his present round of duties , he represents an ever-present threat to the smooth running of this household , and in particular to next week 's important international gathering . ’ |
| 33 | Padmore later became a central figure in the organisation of African students into nationalist movements , and later again he became a political advisor to Kwame Nkrumah when the latter founded the newly independent state of Ghana . |
| 34 | He became a senior surgeon to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh in 1872 . |
| 35 | He became a scientific adviser to the Royal Horticultural Society and travelled the country attending the fungus forays of natural history societies and popularizing fungi among the public . |
| 36 | That day he led a mild extreme to the right of Praying Mantis with his usual mixture of accuracy and irresistible momentum . |
| 37 | He looks a bad colour to me . " |
| 38 | Instead , he found an amazing resistance to forgetting . |
| 39 | He posed a mute question to Jacob who nodded . |
| 40 | He was dressed in the garb of a Catholic priest and he bore an uncanny resemblance to the now legendary Spencer Tracy . |
| 41 | LORD ATKIN : The ordinary blackmailer normally threatens to do what he has a perfect right to do-namely , communicate some compromising conduct to a person whose knowledge is likely to affect the person threatened . |
| 42 | To some extent , the potential harshness of the strict liability rule is mitigated by the fact that , if a person acts in what he takes to be self-defence when he is confronted by another whom he does not realise to be a constable , he has a good defence to the charge , because he is not guilty of an assault . |
| 43 | If the defendant can establish any of the defences mentioned in section 24(1) he has a good defence to any charge under the Trade Descriptions Acts . |
| 44 | Now if the executors of the will delay paying out then the husband can claim that he has a legal right to his money . |
| 45 | If Elmer has a right to the inheritance according to a convention of this sort — if he has a right to it according to social conventions about who has power to legislate and how that power is to be exercised and how doubts created by the language are to be settled — then he has a legal right to it , but not otherwise . |
| 46 | Though he has a good deal of contact with senior officials ( and in the northern agency spends most of his time at headquarters ) he has a strong loyalty to the field officers in his area , retaining from his own earlier experience as a field officer what he feels to be a sympathetic understanding of practical problems . |
| 47 | He has a two-pronged response to the increase in Ecstasy use : ‘ We 're trying to cut off the supply , ’ he says . |
| 48 | ‘ I think he has a terrific attitude to the game . |
| 49 | ‘ Unless he has a terrific wish to , ’ she said , coming last to Edward . |
| 50 | Where the power is exercised by a minister , for practical reasons , the courts are more willing to hold that he has an implied power to sub-delegate . |
| 51 | Believe me when I say that he has an unexpected side to him . |
| 52 | He cast a furtive glance to left and to right . |
| 53 | He reported a clean break to his little finger , but was ready to field when Essex began their reply to Lancashire 's 321 all out . |
| 54 | But He adds an unexpected dimension to the love of one 's neighbour : love of one 's enemy . |
| 55 | Typically , Chalmers did some running , his first such stint since he sustained a double fracture to his right forearm in the Calcutta Cup match earlier this month . |
| 56 | He contributed a great deal to the development of Welsh drama with both original plays and translations , while his book on Welsh Folklore and Folk-Custom ( 1930 , revised edn. 1979 ) was the fruit of a lifelong study of the subject . |
| 57 | He lifted a pacifying hand to the Sergeant and barked at the rifleman . |
| 58 | In 1561 he received a royal dispensation to be absent from his Durham prebend to finalize a map of England ‘ both fairer and more perfect and truer than it hath been hitherto ’ . |
| 59 | ‘ Before our training was finished , he received an urgent posting to France . |
| 60 | And he was helped by the fact that he bears a slight resemblance to the blond singer in Abba , too . |