Example sentences of "[conj] to his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He falls asleep with his head on her grave mound , to be taken away in spirit to a strange land where all his grief suddenly fades — and where to his utter delight he sees his lost child facing him , on the other side of a river . |
| 2 | But Peach did n't go to Bale 's or to his former home in Hilderbridge . |
| 3 | Doth not the good father in short time , either by his coughing or spitting or testiness … become troublesome either to his own son or to his nice daughter-in-law , with continuing so long chargeable and so much waited-on , or to the children , with taking up their room at the fire or at the table , or to the servants , while his slow eating doth scant their reversions ? |
| 4 | His nonconformity was not just limited to the roles he chose or to his moody persona but also to his sexuality . |
| 5 | Compared to his first collector , Peggy Guggenheim , or to his first apologist , Clement Greenberg , or to the art critic , Harold Rosenberg who invented the term Action Painter for him , he was indeed a goy and a redneck . |
| 6 | Submitting to ‘ Be aware ’ , he attends closely to his situation and to his own reactions , and instead of trying to infer from principles how he ought to respond , discovers how when most aware he does respond , and perhaps surprises himself by an impulse contrary to social convention or to his own self-image . |
| 7 | And although Mr Kohl promises that Germany will eventually amend its constitution and shoulder its proper military responsibilities in the world , he would prefer to sell that to his own people as a pro-European gesture than as a pro-American one . |
| 8 | This once mighty state was now again becoming a major power in Europe , thanks less to its nominal ruler , Philip V , than to his prime minister , Cardinal Giulio Alberoni . |
| 9 | In addition he accepted an undertaking by the defendent not to reveal other than to his legal advisers the fact that he had made communications to FIMBRA and the Inland Revenue . |
| 10 | In some ways history has been kinder to Minkowski than to his older rival in the french Academy 's competition , the deceased Oxford professor , Henry John Stephen Smith . |
| 11 | The boy had been in his tutelage now for two and a half years , closer far to him than to his own Lancaster kin . |
| 12 | Northumberland had more use for him ; he was temperamentally closer to this coldly thinking man than to his own son . |
| 13 | As this suggests , the duke recognized a wider responsibility than to his own servants . |
| 14 | As this suggests , the duke recognized a wider responsibility than to his own servants . |
| 15 | Sir George Gilbert Scott , a passionate exponent of the Gothic style , had been forced against his will and to his lasting fury to provide an Italianate design for the Foreign Office at the insistence of the Prime Minister , Lord Palmerston . |
| 16 | He embraced the moral grandeur of it with enthusiasm , and to his dying day aspired to nothing more than Indian membership of the British empire as an equal partner , regarding independence in isolation as a perhaps politically expedient but regrettable alternative . |
| 17 | Plate CCXXI of the Figures of Plants shows two roses : the variegated Damask , or York and Lancaster , had long been known and to his descriptive account of this Miller added a note on Mrs Hart 's Rose , probably a sport , with its more distinctly striped petals than the other 's rather blotched red and white ones . |
| 18 | When Midland Amalgamated headhunted him for the MD 's job at Pringle 's they offered him a Rover 3500 Vanden Plas , but Vic stuck out for the Jaguar , a car normally reserved for divisional chairmen , and to his great satisfaction he had got one , even though it was n't quite new . |
| 19 | He , good man that he is , instantly returns to verse and to his better self : ‘ Had I brought hither a corrupted mind , /Thy speech had altered it ’ ( 104ff . ) . |
| 20 | Will my hon. Friend join me in paying tribute to Mr. Martyn Rands , chairman of Basildon commuters ' club — and to his hard-working committee — who met my hon. Friend this morning and presented him with a petition , signed by 5,000 people in my constituency , complaining about the disgraceful service that they receive on the Fenchurch Street line ? |
| 21 | Keeler suggests that his change of front was due to being passed over as council clerk ( 1635 ) and to his second marriage ( 1638 ) connecting him with a Puritan family , the Bedingfields , but a more consistent thread can be found in his earlier parliamentary career and in his abiding anti-Catholicism and Puritanism . |
| 22 | He presented telescopes to the Doge of Venice ( and had ageing councillors climbing a campanile to see merchant ships out at sea ) and to his former pupil and friend Cosimo II , Grand Duke of Tuscany . |
| 23 | He also threatened to call in the receiver to Mr Bond 's master corporation and to his private family company , Dallhold Investments — the firm which sits at the top of the whole debt-laden business structure . |
| 24 | ASTRATEGY for winning , but not winning friends , took Sugar Ray Leonard to the prize and to his first $100million from boxing . |
| 25 | He was appointed ‘ expectant of excise ’ on 17 April 1827 and to his first post as an assistant on 2 September of the same year . |
| 26 | In subsection ( 2 ) above ‘ necessaries ’ means goods suitable to the condition in life of the minor or other person concerned and to his actual requirements at the time of the sale and delivery . ’ |
| 27 | Lloyd George had both a real desire to bring about social improvement and a shrewd appreciation of the gains it could , if carefully approached , bring both to the Liberal party and to his personal reputation . |
| 28 | Above all its claims were rejected by the Council of Castile as a usurpation of sovereign power which belonged to the king and to his appointed administrators . |
| 29 | This was printed privately in a limited edition of 250 copies , and in its preface the author expressed his gratitude to his father and to his eldest brother , Charles William Boase [ q.v. ] , ‘ for their great kindness in conjointly defraying the cost of printing this work which I claim to be an important contribution to the English biography of the nineteenth century ’ . |
| 30 | It is time to take account of that difference between perceiving from ‘ Now ’ and ‘ I ’ and imagining from other viewpoints which we have so far put aside as irrelevant.4 Although one can respond with some awareness to remote or hypothetical situations , and evaluate them sub specie aeternitatis , everyone 's actual choices of ends are of course confined to his own present and future and to his effective scope of action . |