Example sentences of "he [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | Richard Armstrong has left to become Curator of Contemporary Art at the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh , and Richard Marshall has cut a deal that allows him to remain only until he finds another job . |
2 | Jim got fed-up coming home , weary and sensing that things were going increasingly wrong , to find the women talking late into the night , ignoring him , even asking him to go away , to go to his own room , to mind his own business . |
3 | She was n't pleased by that , but could hardly tell him to go away . |
4 | Lewis 's doctor put him on tranquillizers and advised him to go away on holiday . |
5 | I am afraid that I told him to go away and not be silly . |
6 | Confronted by the figure of the Beggar , Hoccleve at first remains withdrawn in his ‘ seekly distresse ’ ; he refuses to speak to him , then begs him to go away : |
7 | ‘ Tony was thinking of packing it in over a month ago but I told him to go away and talk it over with his family first . |
8 | RAID No 2 on the nearby North of England Building Society ended when staff shouted at him to go away . |
9 | The Doctor decides to talk to Bennett in his cabin , but when the man tells him to go away he forces open the door — only to find a tape recorder and an escape hatch door in the floor . |
10 | and told him to go away with it and think about what he could do , and er mentioned money to him , and he liked the idea . |
11 | I asked him to go away after lunch and I asked him to go away after supper , and he went away both times . |
12 | I asked him to go away after lunch and I asked him to go away after supper , and he went away both times . |
13 | ‘ I was very childish then , but I wanted him to go away . |
14 | She probably did tell him to go away and stop following her around , but that would n't be a reason for him screaming he 'd kill her . ’ |
15 | I turned back to the harbour to wait for him to go away . |
16 | She slowed her pace , willing him to go away before she drew close . |
17 | The lorries waited under the hoppers to pick up their loads and after a little , one of the lorry men told him to go away . |
18 | Tell him to go away . ’ |
19 | She had told Robert that she hated him , told him to go away , to move to another area , and he had taken that literally . |
20 | He forecast Mr Davies would never stand as candidate , ‘ because if the Labour Party allows him to go forward this seat will actually be won by the Liberal Democrats . |
21 | Thinking of the girl who would probably be up and dressed and waiting for him to go downstairs , Harry frowned uneasily . |
22 | When she finally left him to go upstairs her heart was overflowing , and she was beaming from ear to ear . |
23 | A photographer from Spanish Cosmo tries unsuccessfully to get him to go outside for a shoot . |
24 | At Glasgow Cross , near the famous steeple , I gave him a knowing wink , shook his hand , and advised him to go straight home ( as if he would do otherwise ) . |
25 | While he was out one day , a phone call was made to his Herne Hill home asking him to go straight to an audition at the Cambridge Theatre , London . |
26 | ‘ Much too fast and he never takes any notice when I tell him to go slower , so I do my knitting . |
27 | The road was wet and I kept telling him to go slower . ’ |
28 | In everything , a compromise is the answer and by not expecting the horse to go too close to a potentially spooky object , kidding the horse that you never intended him to go near it , will avert an argument or tension . |
29 | Behind me Nathan is having problems , his wooden runners sticking in the snow and causing him to go slowly . |
30 | I have of late had two letters from him , in which he has shown such an easy and familiar way of expressing his thoughts , such a delight for improvement and so much exactness and dilligence in the making of observations that I look upon him to go onward with a curiosity and genious superior to most of his occupation . |