Example sentences of "be [verb] to his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All have been exposed to his scarifying eye and his audacious judgments ; he has projected on all his volatile wit and a searching wisdom . |
| 2 | Moreover , this was not one of those results that had been confined to his private papers , but it had been published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society . |
| 3 | A bottomless dustbin , a plastic oil container and a private selection of empty bottles have already been added to his private junk heap , waiting to be collected one day when he has time . |
| 4 | You 've been listening to his scaremongering nonsense . |
| 5 | The right hon. Gentleman has not been listening to his hon. Friends . |
| 6 | Zeus 's head is lost , but seems to have been turned to his proper right , and on this , the side of good omen , one would expect Pelops to stand , as he does in fig. 124 . |
| 7 | The more he thought about it , the more he realized that only a slight change would need to be made to his own plans . |
| 8 | Her father 's duchy would , by a family convention of 1658 , be transferred to his youngest brother Ernst August , but she would inherit her father 's private fortune . |
| 9 | Although the hammock episode is explicable in terms of his experience , the subsequent transition to drifting above the ground can not reasonably be related to his usual fate when falling out of the hammock ; these dreams , which are not uncommon , seem uniquely detached from any experience in real life . |
| 10 | Much of it can be attributed to his astute realization that it was possible to break with the disastrous tradition of Pius IX without compromising on essentials . |
| 11 | The fact that the selection of a style became such a contentious issue can be attributed to his sustained advocacy of Gothic . |
| 12 | I 'll be speaking to His Royal Highness about this . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ She would have liked them to be contributed to his regimental museum . ’ |
| 14 | In fact , the balance of advantage would seem to lie in holding that where A threatens B with a breach of his contract with B , B should be restricted to his contractual remedies . |
| 15 | He lay in the bed , touching Emily with fingers too rough for her skin , wondering what he could give her that would even approach what he thought of her ; waiting to be gone to his own place . |
| 16 | If this happens he will be left to his own devices , with possibly disastrous results , caused by ignorance . ’ |
| 17 | Cranmer , with that desire to proffer advice on affairs of state which often overcomes academics after a good dinner , suggested a new approach ; the divines of the English and European universities should be consulted , he urged , for they were just as competent as any cardinals to advise whether in light of the Scriptures it was unlawful for a man to be married to his deceased brother 's wife . |
| 18 | Colin Campbell , to whom Lord Milton directed his inquiry about the removal of Main , insisted that the watchman could be returned to his former station , and that his temporary appointment as a tidesman was not a punishment , but a favour . |
| 19 | He wanted to be returned to his own time . |
| 20 | Kevin Maxwell has been appointed to his first job since he resigned as director of Mirror Group Newspapers following the collapse of Robert Maxwell 's business empire . |
| 21 | Jerry refuses with zest ; he has obviously been springing to his own defence for many a long year . |
| 22 | The estate , of nearly 1,300 acres , had been left to his elder brother , Paul [ q.v. ] , a scholar at Cambridge , but it was bought by Henry in 1618 . |
| 23 | When one views the subsequent history of Vietnam , and Indonesia , however , it does not seem extravagant to claim that Mountbatten could hardly have made as bad a job of it if he had been left to his own devices . |
| 24 | He roamed around like a visitor who 's been left to his own devices , curious and oddly furtive , opening drawers , reading a letter or two , shuffling through a deck of photographs . |
| 25 | To her horror , she saw that they were exposed to his avid gaze . |
| 26 | Few new species were added to his oceanic collection , but Gould was delighted to spend his time recording again in minute detail his encounters with familiar acquaintances . |
| 27 | Born in Belgium in 1903 , he easily acquired the sexual habits which were to lead to his eventual boast to have slept with 10,000 women — 8,000 of them prostitutes . |
| 28 | That is why there is such comfort and assurance in being related to his Holy Spirit . |
| 29 | And Charles 's tactics were damaging to his own subjects : the peasant who declared that he dare not get out of bed in the morning for fear of the English spoke for many of his compatriots , and the unchallenged presence of English armies on French soil not only caused substantial physical hardship to the population but also lowered Charles 's prestige . |
| 30 | Ashley 's eyes were drawn to his torn face and the blood . |