Example sentences of "[verb] to his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nicholson 's horses have been in sparkling form this season since he moved to his new yard and Baydon Star was sent off a surprisingly generous 13-8 favourite . |
| 2 | When he moved to his present school , he abandoned individualised learning and lessons fell very much into the mode of ‘ exposition by the teacher , pupils do the exercise ’ . |
| 3 | Gooch moved to his 50 his third in eight days at Old Trafford with his sixth four , off DeFreitas . |
| 4 | ‘ I like to encourage precise , analytical draughtsmanship which is best executed in pencil , ’ Norman Blamey told Julian Halsby when he talked to him recently about his teaching and approached to his own paintings |
| 5 | Yellow man : Kirk Hunter gets the card treatment from referee George Keatley , one of the bookings which contributed to his long early-season suspension . |
| 6 | asked that we relay his heartfelt thanks to all Wood Group personnel who contributed to his successful visit . |
| 7 | Perhaps that contributed to his good looks , thought Charles , and bent to pull up his wrinkled socks as Dimity had told him . |
| 8 | With Dawson it was his bulk which undoubtedly contributed to his premature death along with his broad , rubber face that became his trademark and made him an ideal pantomime dame in true bawdy music hall tradition . |
| 9 | Despite the difficulties Frere was committed to his new life and regretted only that enthusiasm came less easily to his wife . |
| 10 | But Ebert was too far along his own road now to let that colour his thinking ; too deeply committed to his own dream of inheritance . |
| 11 | When he was a child , an artist visited his school — he happened to be a musician — and left behind him an impression of a man very clearly committed to his chosen subject , and a feeling of passion for doing something you really want to do , that stayed with Paul for years until he finally decided to become a photographer . |
| 12 | He should never have agreed to take part in this charade , should have adhered to his first decision to refuse . |
| 13 | Tuesday 's launch of Sunrise Midlands ' 24-hour service adds to his existing three radio stations . |
| 14 | Well , that simply meant he 'd temporarily grown tired of easy conquests ; after all , women must fall to his golden charms like ripe apples from a tree . |
| 15 | In his mind he is attracted to his own glamorisation of death . |
| 16 | ‘ We 'll appeal to his worst then , ’ he laughed as he went on his way . |
| 17 | Why had she agreed to come to his awful party ? |
| 18 | Nonetheless , although Wolfgang ends his letter ( dated 4 April ) by expressing the desire to come to his dying father 's arms ‘ as soon as is humanly possibly ’ , he did not do so . |
| 19 | I am obliged to smell what he smells , the baby powder , the smell of his nails before the fire spits them out-to be caught in the dish and then agonizingly reapplied to his thrilled fingertips . |
| 20 | ‘ And the bloody madman is walking to his own wedding with all the children , ’ she said , more in sympathy with the children than in laughter . |
| 21 | As Gould described to his Victorian reader , as yet unacquainted with this most common and popular of pets . |
| 22 | ‘ Whatever style the man uses , the woman gets the message very clearly : It 's up to her to figure out how to keep him happy and how to adjust to his everchanging demands . |
| 23 | Had it succeeded , we would have been enriched by those labours which he afterwards devoted to his native country and which laid the first regular foundation for the science of veterinary medicine in Europe . |
| 24 | It was right because he was rich and confident enough to introduce Mary Rose to his terrible clod of a brother and his wife , and to Mammy , who was old and senile and sat like a statue in a corner by the kitchen fire . |
| 25 | When he did , he made a gurgling kind of noise then rose to his full height in the pew and bellowed like a bull-calf , ‘ NOREEN ! ’ |
| 26 | He rose to his full height and surveyed the scene with his chin too high and his eyes half closed , peering , as if what he viewed was rather beneath his dignity . |
| 27 | Her gaze dropped to his black , swirling cloak and she knew . |
| 28 | He switched this ability to concentrate to his own recovery and eventually began to make progress . |
| 29 | What was happening to his happy band ? |
| 30 | Harthacnut chose to remain there , presumably because he was exercised by the threat which Magnus posed to his own position , and this left Harold Harefoot , Cnut 's other son by Ælfgifu of Northampton , to dispute the English throne with his half-brother 's supporters , headed by Queen Emma and Earl Godwin . |