Example sentences of "he [adv prt] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His fortunes had changed , however , when a man who had befriended her father , Joe Maitland , took him on to manage his warehouse in Dockhead . |
| 2 | His idea of the " popular play " is important , since his devotion to the music hall and his belief that the poet can only be socially useful in the theatre spurred him on to achieve what was for him the unachievable : the plays bear all the marks of their deliberate and laborious composition . |
| 3 | a talisman , a passport — and with Wood seeing them out onto the empty streets , he moved off through the cool , misty town , into Newlands Valley , over towards Buttermere , his heart hammering him on to get back to her before it was too late . |
| 4 | He has a final interview with Miss Havisham , and forgives her the wrong she has done him in leading him on to believe that she was his benefactor . |
| 5 | But this man will pull no punches when he is irked : as the head of the Thatcher loyalists determined that she should fight to the end , he threatened to floor a Thatcher aide who was guarding her door unless he allowed him in to see her . |
| 6 | Now , two days before he sailed for New York , Mary smuggled him in to see the child . |
| 7 | He knew exactly why the Curator had asked him in to see the eagle — a most unusual thing for someone as unimportant as him to be called in personally in this way . |
| 8 | His wife had to call him in to tell him he had won ! |
| 9 | The C.C. said that they called him in to look at the body . |
| 10 | But of all Koresh 's dubious activities it was gun dealing that would bring him in to conflict with authority . |
| 11 | ‘ Very cross that Anthony wo n't let him in to share the nursing , ’ said Comfort drily . |
| 12 | " Then she sent him in to get Mr Lee and they spent about five minutes in the sitting room . " |
| 13 | Mr Silvers , however , had remembered the significance the visit would have for my father , and had thus called him in to offer him the option of taking several days ' leave for the duration of the General 's stay . |
| 14 | near Kettering , Don went to er Northampton and then finally I went to Rushden and er I 'd been there about a year and all of a sudden there was a call in for Shorteners at so I went down on the bike and er what er the one over me who , who was elderly , well was n't over me but he was er he was on my job but the senior man on it he come in , the boss had sent him in to have a look cos the er Shorteners were complaining , and er then they rang up for one of us , he said well I 'm not leaving till I 've solved this problem so I had to go . |
| 15 | The member of staff when I spoke to him about it afterwards — I did not call him in to speak to him about it immediately because I did not think it was either my place or my duty — I told him that she was very concerned about that being said to her son and quite frankly so was I , and really was that the sort of thing to say and he agreed it was n't the thing to say but he said ‘ I was so angry at the time . |
| 16 | " Bring him down to see us , " they say , " and we 'll tell him how he can and ought to claim for you . " |
| 17 | Cos you had to pull him down to dance . |
| 18 | Some gave him their answer at the door , others invited him inside and sat him down to ask his question . |
| 19 | They could have put him down to graze somewhere and left him there quietly for an hour or two , but certainly yesterday he was running all over the field . |
| 20 | Oh , he , he always starts to whinge when I lay him down to do his coat up , he do n't like |
| 21 | It might be a way of tempting him down to sit in the bar , sometimes . ’ |
| 22 | It had been Sister Cooney 's idea to take him down to help in the library . |
| 23 | It 's the difference between the person who knocks you down to take your purse and the person who knocks him down to come to your rescue . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ No good ever came out of Catgut Alley , that 's for sure , ’ said Aunt Clarabel as she sat him down to fish and chips for lunch . |
| 25 | She thinks that she 's merely bringing him down to meet Jim and me . ’ |
| 26 | From the very first time she 'd taken him down to meet her family , she had seen that they had n't liked him . |
| 27 | I thought that if I took him down to paddle for a while , it would cool him down and distract him , so he would be able to sleep . |
| 28 | What happened was I happened to be in the corridors there and the gentleman came in , that 's on the Friday afternoon , gentleman came in and asked to see the Headmaster , so I took him along to see who was the Headmaster then , and erm shortly after that I was called up to see and erm asked me if I 'd like to apply for this job because had seen me erm bringing me up to , bringing him up to see and he said erm , well what about that young fella who brought me up there and would he like to apply . |
| 29 | They sent him along to vacuum the carpets , but he wound up with his very own theatre to practice in . |
| 30 | When visiting a church on the south coast , I saw the following notice for the Young Wives ' Social Evening : ‘ If your husband has nothing on , bring him along to join in the fun ! ’ |