Example sentences of "to [pron] he [modal v] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a youngest son his own prospects had been poor — his sojourn abroad had been in the company of his rich younger cousin Francis Whithead , to whom he may initially have acted as tutor — but on the death of his only surviving brother Anthony in 1754 he unexpectedly succeeded to the family estates . |
| 2 | but someone he could trust , someone who understood the language , someone who would afterwards be gone , who would n't remain as a perpetual reminder of his uncertainties , a fellow professional to whom he could comfortably think aloud . |
| 3 | It was not surprising that the initial source of inspiration was the breakdown of his first serious relationship , a subject to which he would later return with regularity . |
| 4 | There was nothing to suggest the reduction in capital was brought about with the deliberate intention to obtain legal aid to which he would otherwise not be elegible . |
| 5 | His pursuit of moral ends did not justify his reckless disregard for truth , and his malice destroyed the privilege to which he would otherwise have been entitled . |
| 6 | Perhaps the aspect of the postwar settlement to which he could most easily reconcile himself was decolonization , because that at least could be understood within a fundamentally nationalist framework . |
| 7 | Standing with him , chewing the chalky corn , it was not difficult to enter his vision of the only past to which he could comfortably look ; a spiritual homeland to which he could never return . |
| 8 | The psychological insights which he might once have applied were no longer applicable ; thus , like most people , like all of us would in a similar circumstance , the degree to which he could realistically perceive what was going on within his body and what was becoming of him came and went . |
| 9 | Standing with him , chewing the chalky corn , it was not difficult to enter his vision of the only past to which he could comfortably look ; a spiritual homeland to which he could never return . |
| 10 | Nicky is entangled in a sticky web of subtle rhetoric concerning ‘ right ’ and ‘ wrong ’ , his mother 's feelings , his own feelings , and underlying all this is the reality of the force to which he must ultimately submit . |
| 11 | One further patient ( case 15 in table III ) had a second address in another part of Britain , to which he should correctly be allocated under the rules followed by the national cancer registration scheme ; he has therefore been excluded from the analyses . |
| 12 | And I still feel that you 're to blame for this : if you had been a wife to him he would certainly not have had to seek comfort elsewhere . |
| 13 | Well , to her he would always remain Mr Vass , whether it made him cross or not ! |
| 14 | But I thought when he puts his mind to it he can really try ca n't he ? |
| 15 | Nizan 's literary and political activities are in many ways best understood as a contribution to what he would doubtless have designated as a " cultural revolution " . |
| 16 | This also gives him an introduction to what he will later come to realise is an example of personal freedom . |
| 17 | To us he will always be a Soviet citizen . |