Example sentences of "he [verb] to the [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He sank into the waiting limo unshaven , crumpled , white-faced , nervous , shattered and by the time he got to the posh Beverly Hills Hotel , in need of the complimentary bottle of Scotch a thoughtful management had left in his room . |
| 2 | Then he moved to the exclusive St James Club as restaurant manager , serving the likes of Lionel Ritchie , Duran Duran , Elizabeth Taylor , Robert Wagner and Jean-Claude van Damme , of Kickboxer film fame . |
| 3 | After graduating he moved to the Royal Holloway College to research a Ph.D . |
| 4 | No idea why he appealed to the lovely Sara . |
| 5 | One man who would sacrifice all his prize money for the year just to win the Wimbledon Singles Crown that has eluded him is Ivan Lendl , and the tension clearly showed when he lost to the Canadian Grant Connell in windy , dark , and damp conditions in the Stella Artois Championship at Queen 's Club . |
| 6 | Following a spell in Romford he went to the new Walton Heath course in 1904 where he stayed until his death in 1950 , aged 80 . |
| 7 | His parents are well-off farmers in Somerset , and although he went to the prestigious Ampleforth school , he spent only a year after taking his A levels at agricultural college before becoming a BMW car salesman . |
| 8 | He went to the infamous Son-La forced-labour camp in the jungle on the Thai border where hard-core Communists were able to indoctrinate their fellow convicts . |
| 9 | This culminated in an interview which he gave to the Illustrated India Weekly in which he criticized Prime Minister V. P. Singh as " weak " and repeated allegations of corruption against two other Cabinet ministers , Arun Nehru and Arif Mohammed Khan . |
| 10 | He reports to the powerful Commons Public Accounts Committee which may call the Chancellor to answer questions from MPs later this month . |