Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Pattenism is not to be a continuation of Ridleyism : an important theme underlying the whole speech was that he intends not to err on the side of market forces at the expense of planning restrictions . |
| 32 | He was clearing the ground , dispatching his previous writing to the putative immortality of volume form before he began seriously to concentrate on the work to come . |
| 33 | He swung round to stare at the spot where the barrow of ‘ Trumper , the honest trader ’ had stood for nearly a century , only to find a gaggle of youths warming themselves round a charcoal fire where a man was selling chestnuts at a penny a bag . |
| 34 | In the end , Coleman had to let it pass , although he contrived not to pay for the footage , and duly noted the DEA 's systematic corruption of the media in one of his back-channel reports to Donleavy . |
| 35 | Putting the thoughts out of his head , he settled back to wait for the next people who could keep the Americans busy . |
| 36 | On a sixth-century BC vessel made in Etruria , the ketos has a large eye and vicious curved teeth against which the hero holds a sickle ; while in an early Attic scene , he appears about to cut off the monster 's tongue . |
| 37 | He reached forward to turn off the gas poker and add a couple of peats to the fire . |
| 38 | ‘ Now I know what else it was Dr Iverson did when he went through to see to the claret before dinner . ’ |
| 39 | But that was perhaps not enough , and he went on to explain to the congregation and to the Prince of Wales as the new President that there was a ‘ more searching question ’ to be asked about validation : |
| 40 | He went on to reflect on the foundation of new branches . |
| 41 | After a distinguished student career at Emmanuel College , Cambridge , he went on to study at the University of Paris under Suzanne Bastid . |
| 42 | He went straight to work on the swollen sheep , and managed to save almost all of them . |
| 43 | He went further to deal with the question as to whether or not the liquidators had public interest immunity in case the issue should become relevant later . |
| 44 | The mother shouted at one of the boys and he went back to sit in the small lorry . |
| 45 | He went quickly to sleep with the lights still all on , his body hot and rigid , curled up into a tight ball , and his eyes screwed up tight . |
| 46 | ‘ I was attempting to retrieve my own property , ’ Ashley said , and when he strode forward to look into the skip she pointed . |
| 47 | He did well to hold off the challenge , battling bravely to last home by a short head . |
| 48 | Jehan suddenly thought about the possibilities of ambush , and he wheeled around to look for the trooper who was riding escort on this side . |
| 49 | He leaned over to look into the pool and , losing his balance , fell into the deep water . |
| 50 | He leaned back to tap on the glass partition and then slid it open . |
| 51 | He had either to swim to the far bank or return to the undergrowth . |
| 52 | An evangelical of great piety and a man of gentle character and inflexible integrity , Johnson was charged with a mission beyond the powers of most because he was to be custodian of the morals of the infant settlement but he had also to conform to the pragmatism of Arthur Phillip [ q.v. ] , the first governor of New South Wales . |
| 53 | Though he had yet to appear on the dim-lit stage , I knew he was going to come for Kingsley Amis . |
| 54 | He had only to fumble in the pocket of his sports jacket , preparatory to taking out his pipe , and she was at his elbow striking on a musical lighter which tinkled out the tune of ‘ Come Back to Sorrento ’ . |
| 55 | In effect , he need not have bothered ; he had only to ask in the name of Spain and Rodrigo would have come . |
| 56 | Later when he wanted to release him he had only to go through the same motion but this time having his hand covered with a substance that would neutralize the smell . |
| 57 | Driving back from Newhaven to Tunbridge Wells that afternoon , he had only to think of the empty house and the solitary evening awaiting him at Farriers to rebel against caution and risk a diversion to Ockham House . |
| 58 | ‘ He said not to worry about the language problem , which was nice of him . |
| 59 | He resolved not to look at the ground again until he felt his 'chute open . |
| 60 | ‘ The army will concentrate on Quatre Bras , ’ the Duke of Wellington seemed to be speaking to himself as though he groped towards a solution of the problem Napoleon posed , ‘ but we sha n't stop him there , and if so , ’ Wellington 's gaze flicked across the map , then settled , ‘ I must fight him , ’ he paused again to lean over the map for a few final seconds , ‘ here . ’ |