Example sentences of "[noun] he [verb] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Scots rebelled and Charles I had to raise more money for an army to quell the uprising and for funds he had to resort to Parliament who demanded the removal of both Archbishop Laud and the Earl of Stafford . |
| 2 | After a dozen years in the Arkansas state-house he decided to run for president at time when President George Bush 's re-election was considered virtually certain . |
| 3 | In other words he needs to go to launderette . |
| 4 | In the face of royal financial demands he had to bear in mind the interests of the clergy as well as his duty to the king , and he was subject to some pressure from the Pope to urge the king to pay heed to papal diplomatic overtures aimed at bringing an end to the war . |
| 5 | To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what further action he intends to take in connection with the announced closure of Ravenscraig . |
| 6 | His mind filled with primitive lore and with a sense of awkwardness at the numerous exhausting social roles he had to play in addition to that of the London banker , Eliot wrote to Mary Hutchinson in 1920 worrying about his inherited characteristics and suggesting that he might be a savage himself . |
| 7 | He could see no way out and in his anguish he began to think of doing himself in ; the method he would use would have to be quick and simple . |
| 8 | As a jailbird he knows he is no different to the cons he has to live with night and day — reputations mean nothing here . |
| 9 | Jarvis wandered about the world as young people do , but instead of driving a van to India or observing political upheaval in Central America or getting into trouble in Africa he went to look at metro systems . |
| 10 | The next day he tried to beg for money , but large signs in some villages warned him that anyone caught begging would be sent to prison . |
| 11 | When a manager is faced with no financial resources he has to look for youth or experience to fill out his squad . |
| 12 | Throughout his chaotic years in Paris he continued to go to life classes , but he could not afford the five francs an hour for a model and so rarely had a chance to paint the nude , except for his girl-friends , and that , as he was beginning to realize , was expensive too . |
| 13 | Ever since he was a student in Florence and Venice , Modigliani had studied the female form repeatedly and passionately and when he came to Paris he continued to go to life classes . |
| 14 | Roberts ' student days coincided with the depression and to finance his studies he had to work at night and on Saturdays in a bakery store . |
| 15 | Does not the Secretary of State recognise that there is no confidence in the community in the type of managers he proposes to put in control of the trusts ? |
| 16 | And now there was a chap on the phone last night he want to go to Valley and I was trying to tell the bloke who who he between doing pickets and trying to keep count and er . |
| 17 | That night he decided to sleep in Dad 's room . |
| 18 | All the people he goes to meet for dinner and tea . |
| 19 | I wonder if he could tell us whether he is prepared to amend the legislation in this fashion , and perhaps tell the House exactly what other amendments he needs to make in order to take account of changing circumstances . |
| 20 | Since he was not a natural captain he had to lead by example , and when the mighty deeds failed to materialize he was very much up against it . |
| 21 | He had five victories in 1986 , another six in 1987 , though in each season he had to settle for runner-up place in the Championship . |
| 22 | As soon as he realised his mistake he tried to go into reverse , but once America sent troops to Saudi Arabia the dictator was trapped : only then did he make Kuwait the 19th province and drop all talk of withdrawing . |
| 23 | Latish in his life he decided to go into politics , but his chances seemed slight . |
| 24 | The child , it was thought , came into the world as a formless , inert blob of clay which was then moulded by parents , teachers , society , or whatever other forces he happened to come into contact with , and the shape that he eventually assumed was therefore entirely due to the characteristics others had decided to implant in him . |
| 25 | Born in Hackney , East London , Pickering showed talent as a decathlete during national service in the King 's Own Regiment , but on leaving the army he began to concentrate on coaching . |
| 26 | He said it was a preparation he had to take for diabetes . |
| 27 | But within this framework he continues to generalize about gender , seeing all , sexual relations as a battle ’ ( 1982 : 60 ) , an important part of the ‘ arms race ’ all genes conduct with each other . |
| 28 | Between the meetings he began to operate in earnest , seeing individually spending ministers worried that Concorde would drain funds from their budgets . |
| 29 | They were immediately replaced by Loppe , whose presence he appeared to accept without question and almost without greeting , as he did theirs . |
| 30 | This rather craven attitude was not because the book was a piece of polemical special pleading — far from it : Hooper makes every effort to give an impartial account of what he saw , and the men he came to know under combat conditions . |