Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] to his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He greatly influenced modern methods of excavation : he deliberately studied Pitt-Rivers ' methods and modified them to his own ideas . |
| 2 | During my last two years at Eton , and my years at Oxford , Guy Rogers invited me to his covert shoots . |
| 3 | He saw the wisdom of this ploy and invited me to his next fight , when he lost his title . |
| 4 | He also took government subsidies for agriculture , applying them to his catch-cropping enterprise . |
| 5 | He conceded that his knowledge of the language was slight ; that is why he referred me to his young assistant . ’ |
| 6 | He found the King 's strength and confidence increasing and he had no doubts about his fitness to rule ; but the King was still anxious for time in which to adjust himself to his new station and duties . |
| 7 | He retired from politics in 1895 , and devoted himself to his other two enthusiasms , religion and books . |
| 8 | Between 1925 and 1929 he devoted himself to his regenerative projects . |
| 9 | The author 's failure to capture Brown 's dynamism probably owes something to his apparent lack of interest in the substance of issues . |
| 10 | ( Jones , as everyone would have expected , welcomed his vanquished opponent on board with great courtesy , and invited him to his own wrecked cabin for a glass of wine . ) |
| 11 | Quite clearly , Paul Fisher thought she had reported him to his superior , but she knew full well that she had n't . |
| 12 | It was at this place last year that Gabellah found the touch with God which has carried him to his present leadership . |
| 13 | But his personality — assertive and brash yet essentially both cheerful and tough — gradually communicated itself to the public and helped him to his greatest triumph : his victory in the 1948 election . |
| 14 | An amusing parallel in the film business is an account given by the director Ken Russell of how he sold the idea of making a film about Tchaikowsky ; he described it to his potential backers as the story of a homosexual who fell in love with a nymphomaniac . |
| 15 | He used it to his best advantage last week , when he raised the ghastly spectre of Belgium to warn unwary voters of the dangers of coalition governments and proportional representation . |
| 16 | To put it another way , he was aware of the idea of divided consciousness , much discussed in his day , and here and elsewhere he can be seen applying it to his own actions . |
| 17 | He was again imprisoned in 1677 for six months for failing to attend the Church of England 's services , but for the remainder of his life was free , devoting himself to his pastoral duties and his writings . |
| 18 | No doubt busy proving himself to his latest admirer . |
| 19 | The mind of the human observer is endowed with creative imagination ; this allows the scientist not only to make discoveries about the laws of nature but to tamper with them and exploit them to his own advantage . |
| 20 | His change in lifestyle perhaps owed something to his second marriage in 1863 ( his first wife had died in 1860 ) to Mrs Job Lees ( née Sarah Mayall , unrelated ) , from the ranks of the local élite . |
| 21 | Averages , current form , even physical condition ( puff puff ) are irrelevant with ITB , who has the God-given capacity suddenly to take any game by the scruff of the neck and shape it to his own explosive ends . |
| 22 | He kept the design , but cut it to his own material , merely using David 's poetry as a model for his own original composition . |
| 23 | We 've been looking for McCloy to lead us to his hired assassin . |
| 24 | He re-introduces us to his perfect plan and purpose for us . |
| 25 | Significantly , though Hegel himself was much interested in science , especially in astronomy , his own efforts in that direction were none too successful : physical reality tended to be uncomfortably unwilling to accommodate itself to his theoretical predictions . |
| 26 | Peeling and torn adverts advertise the ‘ Summer Sun ’ a middle aged woman , in a tweed suit looks up and reads it as an excuse to turn away from her neighbour , an ‘ undesirable type ’ or a young again middle aged man greased back hair , a black fake leather jacket with sheep skin bits appearing here and there and a necklace protruding from his left nostril eventually attaching itself to his right ear . |
| 27 | David , a small , thin , smiling man with long , sensitive features , welcomed me to his little home . |
| 28 | King George V always had strong views as to who was suitable for which office , and did not hesitate to express them to his Prime Ministers . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , it is obvious that by limiting himself to his own observations in a remote valley , he would soon exhaust his material : he therefore drew on Dorothy 's Journals and upon other people 's experiences , for example in Alice Fell , The Solitary Reaper ( observed by Wilkinson who ‘ Passed a female who was reaping alone ’ ) , and The Kitten and Falling Leaves ( rough draft by Coleridge printed in Notebooks , vol. i , 1813 ) . |
| 30 | In fact , the war gave him a new sombreness of attitude to match his stark experience of the " essential problems of life " ; and inevitably this sombreness communicated itself to his continued thinking about the problems of tragedy . |