Example sentences of "he [to-vb] at " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | There was good reason for him to remain at the helm now , too : the wind was freshening and veering , so that it was coming close to dead astern . |
| 2 | He has stayed to deal with them , but still believes God means him to go at some point . |
| 3 | If the partners unanimously or by a prescribed majority feel that one of their number should no longer remain with the firm they are given power to require him to retire at the end of a period of notice , typically six months or not less than six months to expire at the end of the firm 's accounting year . |
| 4 | But Rostov 's experience of the Empire had not prepared him to find at the same time a complete absence of the poor and underprivileged . |
| 5 | Particularly when Fergie — to the astonishment and great displeasure of Buckingham Palace staff — arranged for him to dine at the Queen 's official London residence with the Iraqi oil minister . |
| 6 | They went about their business , expecting him to appear at any moment . |
| 7 | In any piece of fiction there must be room for the reader — room for him to jump at a suggestion , to insert himself into a story , to respond to hints and clues : to be told what is offered to him is to encourage him to read passively and so to give him less than he deserves . |
| 8 | it was too late to try and stop the marriage now , and it certainly had n't occurred to him to try at the time . |
| 9 | Whenever Annunciata came to fetch the child she was firm : he must go at once or otherwise his mother would be displeased and might not allow him to come at all . |
| 10 | Knowing of Fothergill 's interest in natural history generally , Collinson invited him to breakfast at Mill Hill and showed him a diversity of William 's drawings . |
| 11 | Success in the Caucasian war and the friendship between Bariatinskii and the tsar restored him to favour at the centre and gave him the chance of putting his ideas into practice . |
| 12 | ‘ He had asked the country for a mandate for Tariff Reform , this had been refused , and the honourable thing would be for him to resign at once . ’ |
| 13 | Vacation time Francis arranged for him to caddy at the Lyford Cay club to keep him out of trouble . |
| 14 | John 's gruelling daily schedule requires him to walk at least 15 miles every day carrying a 40lb rucksack to maintain an average 154 miles per week . |
| 15 | A partner in her firm of solicitors knew Lord Aldington , who was then the chairman of Sun Alliance Insurance , which handled the case ; and asked him to look at it . |
| 16 | I also asked him to look at the Twyford Down plan with a view to having a tunnel under the Down rather than a cutting . |
| 17 | I had told him to look at a video of the race and he would see that it was through my efforts that we had won the bronze . |
| 18 | A chance visit to Blackwardine caused him to look at the map for features of interest . |
| 19 | I might then ask him to look at his hands and see whether they are those of someone who does manual work or whether they seem to belong to a well-to-do person . |
| 20 | This means that someone must urgently bring his case to the attention of the Attorney General and ask him to look at it . |
| 21 | Sir David also asked her to submit a number of stills for him to look at . |
| 22 | In this instance it is very important for him to look at the monitor while talking and try to pretend that the interviewer is in the room with him . |
| 23 | All that time , and she had n't been able to get him to look at her . |
| 24 | ‘ I did n't ask him to look at me . ’ |
| 25 | There was the time I took some of my work round for him to look at . |
| 26 | The Land Rover engine rumbled on as she walked round to the driver 's door and waited for him to look at her . |
| 27 | His extraordinary eyes he veiled with lowered lids and humility , and only the satirical curve of his long lips , accentuated by those twin russet flames that forked upwards through his short black beard , caused the chamberlain who admitted him to look at him a second time . |
| 28 | I urge him to look at one current study which concerns the possibility of moving the sea systems control first to temporary accommodation and then , in 1995-96 , to permanent accommodation . |
| 29 | Well I 'd like to see a very open report , and that 's why I Mr , and I 'd like him to look at all the options , we 're deferring this so that we can see what 's possible , you know , , perhaps Hanson Trust would like to come along and offer us fifty million pounds for it , that 'd be a fair deal would n't it , perhaps somebody else would do that . |
| 30 | They 've asked him to look at the case because it makes a mockery of justice . |