Example sentences of "he [adv] [vb past] to [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Intended at first for the church , he was sent to Göttingen , but he soon turned to legal studies and the pursuit of mineralogy under Johann Friedrich Blumenbach . |
| 2 | He soon turned to Jewish studies , his interest from childhood , when he had a traditional religious education and learned Hebrew from the Cairo Genizah scholar , Jacob Mann . |
| 3 | He needed no telling twice , but alas the episode was fatal to his position at United Racecourses and he thereupon turned to other activities . |
| 4 | He always rose to such occasions with confident decisiveness and calm authority . |
| 5 | In order to broaden interests he also invited to these courses experts from other disciplines : musicians , historians , gallery owners and poets . |
| 6 | This he unfavourably contrasted to recent statements by the West German Foreign Minister , Mr Hans-Dietrich Genscher , accepting the inviolability of Germany 's borders , notably the Oder-Neisse frontier with Poland . |
| 7 | Spiers was trained in the Gothic school , but Bolton , who knew him well , insists that he never referred to any buildings of his own and little is apparently known about his work as an architect . |