Example sentences of "[conj] he [verb] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just a brief response to a small part of Iain MacLaren 's letter , where he refers to the Royal Navy abandoning hammocks not long after the Second World War . |
| 2 | He has set up a pirate radio station in his bedroom , where he talks to the disaffected youth of his neighbourhood under the guise of Happy Harry Hard-On . |
| 3 | These illustrations show slightly more freedom in architectural treatment than Scott used in the competition , as The Civil Engineer and Architects ' Journal said , although he adhered to the general principle of uniformity , |
| 4 | His parents are well-off farmers in Somerset , and although he went to the prestigious Ampleforth school , he spent only a year after taking his A levels at agricultural college before becoming a BMW car salesman . |
| 5 | He used to listen to American Football on the American Forces Network and was so enthused with it that he wrote to the American Embassy , who invited him to visit them for the day . |
| 6 | Perhaps the Home Secretary will get up to respond on the second point that he made to the Conservative party conference . |
| 7 | Will the Minister widen his reply to include funding of the national companies , and in particular will he explain the remarks that he made to the Royal Society of Arts last week , when he speculated on the Government funding the national companies directly ? |
| 8 | Goff thought that Minton , consciously or unconsciously , divided his friends into two categories , serious and fun — and was aware that he belonged to the first . |
| 9 | Is it not about time that he said to the 44 million voters who are sick and tired of the phoney election campaign that the general election will be on 9 April ? |
| 10 | It is likely that he listened to the sentimental ballads of the time , and married them to the classicism in which he was trained . |
| 11 | Since further complaints against him would almost certainly have been recorded , it is a fair guess that he took to the open life . |
| 12 | It was as a mere friend that he went to the private view of Vanessa 's second exhibition and met Rain Morgan . |
| 13 | The academic who describes himself at cocktail parties with the words ‘ I am a physicist ’ or ‘ I am a historian ’ is saying something about his self-perception ( essentially a researcher , not a teacher ) ; but is also saying that he subscribes to the disciplinary code imposed on its practitioners . |
| 14 | Is he able to elaborate on the answer that he gave to the hon. and learned Member for Fife , North-East ? |
| 15 | I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for the compliment that he paid to the special branch and to the RUC . |
| 16 | The irony is that he referred to the mutual relevance of science and religion in at least three different respects , each of which magnified , rather than resolved , his difficulties . |
| 17 | I am afraid that I could not catch the last part of my hon. Friend 's question , but I agree with him about the importance that he attaches to the single market . |
| 18 | He climbed the three steps to the door , and pushed at it , but it was securely locked , so he went to the nearest window . |
| 19 | He could understand — so he said to the top brass after the Frenchman had departed — why the French took exception to an Englishman holding such a key position in Europe . |
| 20 | But he could n't , so he climbed to the disabled man 's perch , and began a sensitive , confident probe , and discovered quite soon how far the man had progressed , and finished the work , fast and easily . |
| 21 | George Underwood : ‘ It was all instigated by David really , because he had been listening to the World Service on the radio and suddenly got the bug to get involved in American Football , and he wrote to the American Embassy asking for more information . |
| 22 | She caressed his anxious dick with growing skill , and he responded to the gentle stroking of her fingers . |
| 23 | He found a certain amount of fossil evidence that the time planes were not parallel with the lithological boundaries and he came to the general conclusion that the facies to the north are in the main younger than those to the south . |
| 24 | Madden got shifted from that division — you only got shifted if you were in trouble — and he came to the same division as myself . |
| 25 | Mr Steven Hadley , defending , said Williams 's wife , Andrea , 30 , died of cancer and he went to the medical centre in Pinner armed with a knife intending to make his wife 's GP , Dr Patricia Carson , apologise for what he felt was a wrong diagnosis . |
| 26 | and the boy would next morning would pass on the outside of the gate offering a reward of five pounds to anyone who would in other words five pounds for Oliver Twist I never in for this in my life said the in the white , white coat as he locked the gate and he went to the next morning . |
| 27 | I did go out with one of me mates once and he was going burgling and I needed to do one 'cos I had no money or nothing , strung out , and he went to the Old Hall Estate and broke into a house and I got in through the window with him and I just looked around and saw all these photographs of , y'know like , the family that lived there with the kids and that and I just got this horrible feeling , so I just got out the window and walked away , even though I was strung out and I did n't pick nothing up , I just left him to it ‘ cos , like , though all the burglaries I 'd done , they 'd all been shops . |
| 28 | the bell to get the bus to stop and he goes to the next flaming stop ! |
| 29 | In a speech to the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Feb. 12 , Menem claimed that Argentina had left behind its Third-World status and non-aligned past [ for Argentina 's September 1991 exit from the Non-Aligned Movement see pp. 38458-59 ] , and he appealed to the European Communities ( EC ) not to become isolationist as they pursued economic and political union . |
| 30 | His debut album ‘ Brand New Star ’ was released recently on CD in Japan , he tours extensively here , across the water and into Europe and he travels to the Far East for the first time in December . |