Example sentences of "he [verb] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conventional wisdom dictates that the experiences at school , in the transition to work , at work itself and in society generally , tend to imbue the black youth with a jaundiced view of the world ; recoiling from the ‘ pressures ’ , he retreats to a street-corner gang existence , detaching himself from society and cultivating a posture of indifference or even hostility towards the rest of society . |
| 2 | He points to a small cut on p.1 in the 1693 quarto , removing a reference to Hermia , Demetrius and Lysander , who — with 1692'5 Act 1 scene 1 disposed of — have yet to appear on stage . |
| 3 | He points to a distant waterfall like a zag of lightning on the hillside . |
| 4 | He points to a single red blossom that quivers on a nearly invisible thread attached to a garland of synthetic butterflies and rhinestone-dotted flowers — a bizarre piece of headgear so tacky it could only have been custom-made . |
| 5 | Embracing the ambiguous nature of that question with a dirty grin , he points to a big wheel . |
| 6 | ‘ A confidential clerk ’ in Macassar , Willems finds his marriage going wrong and himself , obsessed with an Arab woman with whom he flies to a remote tropical island , becoming a savage . |
| 7 | Becker was back in his boom-boom form less than 24 hours after surviving a five-set first-round match as he cruised to a 6-2 , 6-2 , 6-4 win over Jakob Hlasek , of Switzerland , in one hour and 47 minutes . |
| 8 | Becker was back in his boom-boom form less than 24 hours after surviving a five-set first-round match as he cruised to a 6-2 , 6-2 , 6-4 win over Jakob Hlasek , of Switzerland , in one hour and 47 minutes . |
| 9 | Laurence McGeown 's wide runner satisfied selectors last week at the Dublin track when he cruised to a facile seven lengths victory , 30.61 seconds , over the Anglo-Irish International 503 metres distance . |
| 10 | Southern Memories won in the style of a well handicapped horse as he cruised to a three-length win from Special One at Windsor last week . |
| 11 | He agreed to a televised debate , hosted by Dan Rather , with Cameron Nielson Sr. Farnham was still feisty on the show , but Cameron Nielson , looking younger now than his son , was as skilled as a great matador , and finally evened the score with his former tormentor , driving him to tearful contrition . |
| 12 | The only way you can do that is if he goes to a special unit at Maidstone and works |
| 13 | Every so often , he goes to a local hospital where they give him an injection of something , which cheers him up noticeably . |
| 14 | ‘ I hope he belongs to a good club . ’ |
| 15 | He belongs to a new owner . |
| 16 | A greater than these , or any earlier German composer , was to make his debut with a Primo libro de madrigali ( Venice , 1611 ) , but this 26 year-old pupil of Giovanni Gabrieli , ‘ Henricus Sagittarius ’ ( Henrich Schutz ) , was to work almost entirely in other fields and he belongs to a later |
| 17 | He was about the same height as his wife but he looked stooped now , and he was wearing a dressing-gown ; normally he was the epitome of tweedy country-squiredom , an archetypal laird in three-piece suit , clumpy shoes , checked shirt and cap ; he resorted to a beaten-up , much reproofed Barbour when the weather turned particularly foul . |
| 18 | ‘ There 's a war on now and all of you are in enemy territory , ’ he announced to a general assembly . |
| 19 | In one evocative passage , during a discussion of animism and the development of automata , he refers to a six-year-old girl showing her doll how a computer works and explaining that it is a friend . |
| 20 | He was bent in the act of locking the car as Maggie came up and he straightened to a considerable height , dark eyes running over her in astonishment . |
| 21 | But he admitted to a great sense of satisfaction at having been in the job at a time when the world had ‘ seen the most rapid political changes in the past 50 years ’ , from the end of the Cold War to the dismemberment of the Soviet Union , and the appointment of former POCs like Vaclav Havel to become heads of state . |
| 22 | To be sure , the characteristics of the transcendent self remain in play : to become what others saw him as being required great self-discipline ‘ similar to spiritual exercises ’ ; eventually he aspires to a classical stoic independence of spirit , a kind of sainthood ( p. 146 ) . |
| 23 | Only when man aspires above his station and wants to be like God does he fall to a lowlier position in which all his relationships are soured . |
| 24 | He had held her hand while listening to her political ambitions , giving to them the same care he devoted to a Ministerial Statement in the House . |
| 25 | To those who did not criticize , Spurgeon was virtually a demi-god : when it got out that ‘ the pastor ’ , a vegetarian and total abstainer , also smoked a cigar a day — ‘ to the glory of God ’ , he quipped to a visiting American — the news ‘ caused a terrible scandal in the dissenting world ’ . |
| 26 | I can well understand M M Mr Jewitt 's concerns , erm I think the simple fact of the matter is that not a great deal of Greater York new housing demand is likely to be generated in Hambledon district , whereas in Selby district a significant amount of er demand is likely to be generated , so really by way of conclusion I I would like through you to ask Mr Mr Jewitt if his opposition to the new settlement is as a matter of principle , or whether he 's really stating the case for Hambledon district , in other words , would he object to a new settlement in Selby district ? |
| 27 | After three years he moved to a supervisory grade , and in 1960 to barley drying in the ‘ new maltings ’ , known as No. 1 Maltings . |
| 28 | From there he moved to a similar post at Camberley , before becoming deputy commander RE at Mackinnon Road , Kenya . |
| 29 | He started buying expensive clothes , a car ; he moved to a better flat … |
| 30 | After a short time working for his father he moved to a tool-making factory in Birmingham , where he took up bookmaking in a small way , by collecting bets on his motor bicycle . |