Example sentences of "[vb past] to his [adj] [noun] " 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 | asked that we relay his heartfelt thanks to all Wood Group personnel who contributed to his successful visit . |
| 4 | Perhaps that contributed to his good looks , thought Charles , and bent to pull up his wrinkled socks as Dimity had told him . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | As Gould described to his Victorian reader , as yet unacquainted with this most common and popular of pets . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ! ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Hear My Song ( 15 ) Gloriously funny , uplifting romantic comedy , loosely based on the story of Irish tenor Josef Locke , who fled to his native Ireland in the '50s to escape the taxman . |
| 14 | Keith shouted to his own man . |
| 15 | On that topic , Fowler found to his unsurprised dismay that several papers had ‘ profiled ’ the unspeakable Wullie Robertson . |
| 16 | as if by telepathy , Sally referred to his strange behaviour while I opened a bottle of Sancerre in the kitchen . |
| 17 | It referred to his close friendships with prominent Jewish businessmen , some of whom had commercial links with iron curtain countries . |
| 18 | General Sir John Ligonier described the post-Culloden operations in Scotland as ‘ the disagreeable hunting of those wild beasts ’ , and one civilian address of thanks to Cumberland referred to his vanquished foes as ‘ wolves and tygers … mountain savages ’ . |
| 19 | Fred Procter , by then a DUP Belfast city councillor , was shot , apparently by the UVF , who objected to his spirited criticisms of ‘ gangsterism ’ on the Shankill Road . |
| 20 | She objected to his formal jargon , although she imagined a glint of amusement accompanying it . |
| 21 | Here 's a snippet : Johnny Marr 's real name is John Maher but as that was the name of The Buzzcock 's drummer , he changed to his present monicker . |
| 22 | Fender the bowler began as a medium-pacer , switched to legspin and googlies , but constantly instilled variety into the Surrey attack and the lives of fascinated spectators by bowling slow full-tosses , deliberate long-hops , offbreaks and anything else that occurred to his fertile brain , all the while varying the width of his delivery point and the height of his arm . |
| 23 | Mr Brooke invited to his round table both the Ulster Unionists and the Democratic Unionists , along with the centrist Alliance , and the SDLP ( who have been the intended beneficiaries of the whole exercise since the Anglo-Irish Agreement — the actual beneficiaries have been the IRA ) . |
| 24 | Shinwell believed to his dying day that it was he who had been the intended target of French 's bullet . |
| 25 | Braque adhered to his Cubist principles , even in the difficult post-war years , later producing large-format works such as ‘ Nature morte à la nappe rouge ’ ( 1934 ) and ‘ Tabouret ’ ( 1939 ) . |
| 26 | Punks were not normally aggressive , and though he adhered to his normal practice of avoiding eye contact in public places he was fairly relaxed about them . |
| 27 | To mark his birthday , Kim added to his existing titles the designation " Generalissimo " , while on April 21 his son Kim Chong Il , 50 , was elevated to the rank of Marshal of the Armed Forces , as was Marshal Oh Jin Wu , 75 , the veteran Minister for the People 's Armed Forces . |
| 28 | Ally McCoist added to his impressive tally of 45 goals this season when he turned Hagan 's cross into the roof of the net six minutes from the end of what , by his standards , had been a quiet match . |
| 29 | Wagner 's profession of sympathy for Schopenhauer at the November meeting could only have come as the happiest of coincidences , while , in general , this first experience of the composer 's powerful personality confirmed and added to his new status : Wagner was at one with Schopenhauer and he was ( to Nietzsche 's way of thinking ) an artist such as Schopenhauer himself would have wished him . |
| 30 | Mulroney added to his own discomfort by admitting that he had deliberately waited until the last moment before calling a conference of Premiers , in an effort to increase the pressure upon the dissenting provincial leaders . |