Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [verb] to [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Mrs Pouncey is at present editing his diaries , drawing attention to entries such as one for October 1949 , when , between 7.17 am and 12.25 pm he visited no less than twelve Roman churches , certainly with the intense concentration he devoted to each of the many visits they made to Italy together . |
| 2 | The Shah 's confusion was evident in an interview he gave to one of the journalists whom he had known the longest , Clare Hollingworth of the Daily Telegraph of London . |
| 3 | Shortly after taking over one of the most sensitive posts in the recently formed conservative government of Edouard Balladur , France 's new Minister of Culture , fifty-one year old RPR Gaullist Jacques Toubon said he intended keeping ‘ cultural affairs ’ — a term he prefers to that of ‘ culture ’ — separate from any philosophy of State or political or doctrinal message . |
| 4 | During lunch he listened to animated discussions on the iniquities of British taxation , the necessity for bringing back hanging , indiscipline in schools and the general supine attitude of British politicians . |
| 5 | After bodyguard work he turned to full time military journalism in 1985 ; and has been a frequent and major contributor to the French magazine RAIDS . |
| 6 | During the Second World War he came to national notice as chairman of a Senate committee set up to check on war contracts and to prevent war profiteering . |
| 7 | For in his analyses of the classes of capitalism he resorts to purposive terminology , without giving any hint of how this is to be understood except in an everyday , voluntarist manner . |
| 8 | The role she assumed in his life further limited the amount of attention he gave to female students . |
| 9 | To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what importance he attaches to developing relations with the newly independent Baltic states . |
| 10 | Every evening he listens to one of the masters — Schubert , Schumann , Beethoven , Brahms — a habit which he can not miss without physical anguish . |
| 11 | After the meeting he said to one of the local people that it was very unlike the Last Conference in 1913 when he attacked L.G. for 45 minutes amid great applause . |
| 12 | This queer way of writing filled me with foreboding , because it seemed to indicate a cold , self-centred nature , the reverse of the outgoing geniality he displayed to one and all . |
| 13 | Two months before his departure he wrote to twelve or fifteen poets , requesting their public support for Pound and asking them to provide private testimonials in the event that he should be tried and sentenced for his crime : there was , at this stage , a strong possibility that Pound would be condemned to death . |
| 14 | And a true gentleman he remains to this day : ever sunny , ever a pleasure to be with . |
| 15 | He died the day he went to that football match . |
| 16 | The next day he motored to four miles south of Hereford to lunch with an old cousin , and the day after that he attended two funerals , both of ‘ old Worcestershire friends who died on Christmas Day ’ . |
| 17 | This adversity he turned to good advantage , for here was time to devote to his beloved natural history . |
| 18 | On 3 May he gave an address on Milton at the Frick Museum in New York , in which he recanted his previously low opinion of the poet , and on this occasion he seemed to one observer " incredibly refined , visibly aged " — he had given the same address two months before to the British Academy , and thus had saved himself additional effort . |
| 19 | On one occasion he announced to all those assembled at Apollo Place that he had had enough of life and went downstairs to put his head in the oven . |
| 20 | This is a historic town , I I disagree with Mr Jewitt upon the emphasis he gives to that , but I do agree with him that a limit the type , the scale of growth which that solution would imply would be hurtful , would be very , extremely harmful to the town . |
| 21 | After a mouthful he seemed to relent . |
| 22 | And it 's a quality he put to good use when he performed a parachute jump to raise money for a girl who suffers from a rare heart condition . |
| 23 | And that nigger bloke comes in who does the ten o'clock news he goes to all these people who live in Essex , we 're very sorry that you have to take up this very abusive language and this sort of shit . |
| 24 | The tins of sardines , salmon and corned beef he pushed to one end of it . |
| 25 | This is apparent in all the advice he gave to discontented monks . |
| 26 | Professor Moule may not be right in the interpretation he gives to these four verses . |
| 27 | A memorandum by Frank Jacques to the District Council of 12 March 1955 , and an address he gave to that Council , made it clear that he was in favour of both Recommendations . |
| 28 | This is analogous to the claim Gandhi makes in an address he gave to Christian missionaries , namely , that ‘ many men who have never heard the name of Jesus Christ or have even rejected the official interpretation of Christianity would probably , if Jesus came into our midst today … be owned by him more than many of us … ’ |
| 29 | Coetzee recalls the shooting with the same clarity he brings to all his recollections , consulting his meticulous police notebooks and diaries . |
| 30 | He controlled the race from the start and led by eight seconds at the end of the first lap , an advantage he increased to 15 seconds before winning by 20 at an average of 109.69 mph . |