Example sentences of "he [vb past] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ There 's a war on now and all of you are in enemy territory , ’ he announced to a general assembly . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | After three years he moved to a supervisory grade , and in 1960 to barley drying in the ‘ new maltings ’ , known as No. 1 Maltings . |
| 13 | From there he moved to a similar post at Camberley , before becoming deputy commander RE at Mackinnon Road , Kenya . |
| 14 | He started buying expensive clothes , a car ; he moved to a better flat … |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In 1804 , aged 22 , he moved to a clerical post in London but soon left it to study law in the city . |
| 17 | In King Ine 's laws the smith was rated as the equal of the reeve and a child 's nurse , who , being servants , could be taken with a gesithcund man if he moved to a different area ( ibid. p. 104 ) . |
| 18 | He referred to a mysterious Mr Noble as the man who had recruited Badenoch and brought the drugs north for distribution . |
| 19 | First , in his evidence he referred to a better solution as being quotes , seeks a small residential setting with some other people , unquote and went on to refer to the possibility of the plaintiff entering one of the Cheshire Homes . |
| 20 | Although there is no clear evidence , reference made in Van Gogh 's letters indicates that the sexton 's house was on the north side of Turnham Green ( now Acton Green ) , and although he referred to a Methodist school , in all probability the church at Turnham Green was another of the non-conforming denominations and it seems likely that the little wooden church at Turnham Green , which he had sketched , was the earliest Congregational Church , sited off Chiswick High Road , opposite to its junction with Chiswick Road , and just west of King 's Place , The little church was probably in use prior to the erection , in 1878 , of the large Congregational Church on the adjoining sit . |
| 21 | At the outset of his remarks , he referred to a double opt-out . |
| 22 | STEFAN EDBERG 's Wimbledon preparations were shunted off the rails last night as he crashed to a humiliating defeat at the hands of world No 83 Jamie Morgan in the Stella Artois championships at Queen 's Club . |
| 23 | He rose to a 4 star General . |
| 24 | H. L. Clark ( 1915 ) did not consider Ophiopristis to be a distinct genus and transferred the type species O. hirsuta to Ophiacantha the remaining species O. cervicornis , O. permixta and O. axiologia together with a new species O. imperfectum he transferred to a new genus Ophioprium with the type species O. cervicornis . |
| 25 | She dropped the camera from her face as the lens filled with his anger , and he receded to a safe distance from her ; but he was still bearing down , yelling , ‘ What the fuck is going on ? |
| 26 | He appealed to a certain nationalism ; he appealed to worldly motives , and to the knowledge that girls elsewhere were earning money with their education and were perhaps more marriageable as a result . |
| 27 | On his way out of the city he came to a poor crofter 's cottage . |
| 28 | He came to a macabre end . |
| 29 | The pavement had been much repaired , and it was difficult to synchronise his steps so that the middle of each foot fell exactly on the cracks between the paving stones , but with some concentration and a few judicious half-steps he managed it ; then he came to a long blue-grey line of asphalt where a pipe had obviously been repaired , and walked along that instead free from the worry of the paving stones between the cracks . |
| 30 | After an hour he came to a small roadside inn that stood on the crest of a shallow hill and , twisting in his saddle , he saw that the inn gave him a good view of the road right to the horizon so that he would see any French pursuit long before it represented any danger . |