Example sentences of "he was [adj] to [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was close to tears when he started to read a statement in which he opened his heart as never before . |
| 2 | I could see he was close to tears . |
| 3 | He was close to tears , but the bird looked surprisingly perky . |
| 4 | He was used to contrasts : Mother taking morning tea in bed with an old shawl round her shoulders and her hair pinned up under a boudoir cap , her face sticky with face cream as he kissed her good bye before school ; and Mother in full evening dress decked out in false pearls , her eyelashes beaded with mascara , dominating the stage in any play 's Last act … |
| 5 | When Mellor found out he was surplus to requirements in London , he left for a Mediterranean sea trip with his hosts aboard the count 's 30ft cruiser , Fidelity . |
| 6 | Special considerations : there was evidence that the appellant was suffering from a seriously disturbed personality , but was not mentally ill ; he was subject to rages and fantasies . |
| 7 | He was subject to attacks of ague for many years , and memories of that October night came to embody for him his sense of exile from his family , and his anger at his mother 's demanding and erratic love . |
| 8 | He was subject to influences for which he could not compensate ’ . |
| 9 | He intrigued her , he was such a rabbit , yet Edwin had told her that he was subject to outbursts of violent temper . |
| 10 | He was indifferent to listeners . |
| 11 | However , William made it clear that he was opposed to limitations , and not only was it doubtful whether such far-reaching reforms could have passed the Lords ( where the Tories held the ascendancy ) , but even the moderate Whigs showed themselves unprepared to support them . |
| 12 | ‘ He was allergic to noodles ? ’ |
| 13 | And erm we sent it to well one of my other sons in Australia there and he was thrilled to bits . |
| 14 | Perhaps she loved him — there is every reason to suppose he was attractive to women : quiet-voiced , good-looking with fine eyes , well-educated , witty , and musical . |
| 15 | He was rude to officials and contemptuous of backbenchers less successful in their careers than he had been since becoming MP for Putney in 1979 . |
| 16 | 12 That he was beastly to women . |
| 17 | The driver objected on the ground that he was averse to needles and that he had once fainted when giving a sample of blood . |
| 18 | Just to round the day off , the Mayor of Los Angeles , Norris Poulson , told Khrushchev at the banquet in his honour that he was well-known to Americans as the man who had promised to bury them . |
| 19 | Jack Little was Palace 's first choice right-back for some seven seasons , on the resumption of fully competitive football after the end of the 1st World War , but he was well-known to followers of the sport in the wider Croydon area for considerably longer , because he had been a regular member of the Croydon Common side , which won promotion from the 2nd Division of the Southern League in 1913–14 with a remarkable defensive record of only conceding 14 goals in 30 matches . |