Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] a [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | William Walker , an official from the State Department , remembered seeing him rush to catch a flight to Central America , having just got off a flight from Europe , unkempt , a flight-bag over his shoulder . |
| 2 | Waldegrave said that the need to promote the public understanding of science would be addressed in the forthcoming White Paper ( policy document ) on science and technology and that he planned to launch a campaign to ‘ evangelize ’ science . |
| 3 | He tried to scream a warning to his nightmare self : ‘ No , do n't go in there ! |
| 4 | First he threw down his training bib , then he tried to make a point to coaches Dino Zoff and Giancarlo Oddi . |
| 5 | With his last ounce of strength he tried to stretch a hand to his fiddle , but it was already burning fiercely . |
| 6 | No doubt Mr Furbank thought this unnecessary ; yet if he assumes a readership which knows the general background , why does he need to devote a page to the nature and status of the parlement of Paris ? |
| 7 | Laszlo Polgar … he has constructed a shrine to chess and a laboratory for his obsessive theories of genius rearing PHOTOGRAPHS : TAMAS REVESZ Judit … inspirational Zsofia … experimenting Zsuzsa … watchful |
| 8 | Since becoming the first Scot in 35 years to win the Amateur title at Carnoustie last year , Dundas has known that he would be playing in the US Masters at Augusta and Open Championship at Royal St George 's , and now he has received an invitation to the US Open , to be played at Baltusrol , New Jersey , on 17-20 June . |
| 9 | After meeting staff he has made a plea to agency chiefs to delay the transfer so that full consultations can take place . |
| 10 | He has written a letter to his director of pollution control , suggesting two or three p.p.m. which has been returned with the annotation ‘ proceed as indicated ’ . |
| 11 | If he has become a hero to the Muslim masses outside , and probably to a lot of Third World non-Muslims , it is not on his merits , but because the United States , with gratuitous and superfluous aid from Britain , has cast him for the part . |
| 12 | Dr Paul Lawler , South Tees hospitals ' clinical director , revealed he has submitted a report to the Northern Regional Health Authority underlining the difficulties . |
| 13 | Best reckons there wo n't be much between the sides at Murrayfield , having been impressed by the Welsh commitment against his own team — ‘ We knew they would come at us , and they certainly did , though we should still have won ’ — while he has taken a liking to the revamped Scottish pack . |
| 14 | When you see our Ronnie slicing the lips and nose from a man he has taken a dislike to , and relishing it , then you know what violence really is . |
| 15 | ‘ You may ask about his daily routine when abroad ; he attends matins at church and priestly services either alone or with a small following , and worships so devoutly that he has set an example to all Italians of the honour and reverence that should be paid to bishops and clergy . |
| 16 | Erm hopefully Terry reported that he 'd received a reply to his initial letter about the energy conservation bill . |
| 17 | He told me he 'd made a codicil to his will — the man showed it to me , and it 's all in order . ’ |
| 18 | He 'd daubed a rock with paint and used the tell-tale splashes to correct a slight right-hand drift , and then he 'd taken a rasp to the elaborate Monte Carlo grip , reshaping the stock to approximate to the military form on which he 'd been trained and binding it with tape when it was as he wanted . |
| 19 | He 'd won a bursary to a local grammar school when he was eleven and then gone on to an apprenticeship with an engineering firm which employed a quarter of the town 's local inhabitants . |
| 20 | It is almost as if the modern mind , unable to tolerate cultural restraints , and feeling that discontent in civilization which Freud described long ago , had become so intolerant of the demands of communal existence and civilized behaviour that it saw each and every representative of those restraints as an incitement to revolt rather in the same way that an enraged revolutionary mob , thirsting for the blood of its oppressors , might fall on some unfortunate bystander merely because he happened to bear a resemblance to the head of the secret police . |
| 21 | Students have accused Education Secretary John Patten of failing to understand their basic needs , after he pledged to put an end to automatic membership of the student 's union . |
| 22 | He began to take a liking to John Lydon , who beneath the carefully cultivated exterior of ennui , Branson recognised as being extremely bright , ‘ if rather lazy ’ . |
| 23 | He threw in a good job with an insurance company to go off with a woman and ended up , broke and heartbroke , in a cheap caravan site outside Fort Worth , where he decided to put an end to himself . |
| 24 | The conservative rebellion known as the Pilgrimage of Grace and the threatened Franco-Imperial invasion of 1538–9 awakened Henry to the dangers of the evangelical reform programme , and he decided to call a halt to all further theological discussion and experimentation . |
| 25 | These made his name — which by now was E. D. Morel — but also revealed his bellicosity ( he favoured sending a gunboat to the Congo ) , capacity for self-deception ( he forgot his own previous defence of the Leopoldian system ) , and vanity ( he resented sharing the limelight even with activists of longer standing ) . |
| 26 | He did make a visit to Rangoon , either in December 1945 or January 1946 , when he called on the Governor who noted on a draft ‘ Nu snubbed ’ . |
| 27 | Firstly then is purposive thought which a man uses when he tries to find a solution to some problem . |
| 28 | He had to take a boat to Miami , and that 's why he give me the keys to Starkisser . |
| 29 | He had connected a tube to the exhaust pipe of his car and bored a hole through the bedroom wall . |
| 30 | He was thinking that the night Minch had referred to must have been the one when he had made a plea to the powers that rule the skies where eagles fly . |