Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They said me and him had to go to the social security the next morning , and if he did n't he 'd be picked up . |
| 2 | Agnes smiled at the old warrior , and then at Husband : by now , her anger at him had distilled to the warming spirit of pure hatred . |
| 3 | His ‘ guys ’ in Lebanon , the Asmar network , were not to be risked on routine intelligence for the DEA , and Coleman had no other contacts there that he cared to expose to the Syrian-backed heroin cartel in the Bekaa Valley . |
| 4 | He agreed to write to the Peruvian Government . |
| 5 | He clung shivering to the comfortless bed that seemed now the only tenuous security he had , but he was plucked away from it and hustled through the doorway , still bemused with cold and sleep . |
| 6 | Although he promised to listen to the Welsh , he also rebuked those who had criticised his appointment , as a Tory Right-winger and MP for Wokingham . |
| 7 | Then as four pints of blood spurted from his gaping wounds , he staggered screaming to the nearby home of 63-year-old Mavis Clark . |
| 8 | now I 've got two little girls he said I hate to turn away knowing what he 'd done to the last little girl |
| 9 | Ben had been nine when he 'd gone to the same school , he reminded her . |
| 10 | You know when we came back the next Saturday as we 've gone through the front door , he 'd gone to the Little Chef for breakfast because there were n't any crocks left to u , to use |
| 11 | I smiled , nodding my head , not unhappy that he 'd jumped to the wrong conclusions , but surprised that he did n't know the secret of paying by instalments . |
| 12 | ‘ Tell me , ’ he 'd said to the first . |
| 13 | His most spectacular fraud , in 1976 , was reportedly tricking a US paper out of £25,000 for a pair of shoes he claimed belonged to the murdered head of the Teamsters union , Jimmy Hoffa . |
| 14 | And he began to connect to the nascent counter-culture , visiting Pete Brown 's home in Oppidans Road , Primrose Hill . |
| 15 | Now that the death looked painful , now that he could see traces of a struggle , he began , in a kind of panic , to say things in his head , he began to talk to the dead man . |
| 16 | Ideologically , he would not shift his ground ; politically , however , he began to tack to the prevailing wind , giving his regime an appearance of popular , constitutional legitimacy , and gradually taking over and presenting as his own the idea of reinstating the monarchy . |
| 17 | The only change she had made to the property was to build a garage , and after he had unloaded and put away the Jaguar he decided to climb to the top chamber of the mill while it was still light . |
| 18 | He offered to talk to the three Ulster MEPs , one of whom was Mr Ian Paisley , the Democratic Unionists ' leader . |
| 19 | He went scurrying to the dusty shelves in the basement of the chemistry department at Stanford : the vital page had been chopped out by a razor blade . |
| 20 | He managed to attract to the new Achimota college a remarkable principal , Alek Fraser , who had a long record of educating the leaders of society in Ceylon . |
| 21 | His dark night of the soul came in the Chinama Motel in faraway Lusaka , after his escape from South Africa , as he lay listening to the foreign service of Radio South Africa describing him as a liar , a crook and a psychopath . |
| 22 | ‘ He desired to appeal to the moral feelings of the nation and approved therefore of promoting petitions to parliament ; but he distrusted and disowned the questionable strength which might be gained by systematic agitation . ’ |
| 23 | What he did say to the working class is this that the emancipation of working class must be the work of the working class itself . |
| 24 | A fervent supporter of Home Rule , he had converted to the Roman Catholic faith . |
| 25 | On March 26 Noubir Amaoui , secretary-general of the Democratic Confederation of Labour ( CDT ) — a trade union grouping close to the opposition Socialist Union of Popular Forces ( USFP ) — was arrested at the CDT offices in Casablanca in connection with an interview he had given to the Spanish newspaper El País on March 11 . |
| 26 | 1–3–1859 The Convener read the following letter from Claud McFie Esquire with reference to a donation of £400 which he had given to the Aged and Infirm Ministers ' Fund and a like sum to the Supplementary Sustentation Fund and in reference to which he reserved power to demand the interest during his life ; that he was anxious to promote the prosperity of the new Church of Bowmore in Islay , and now desired to appropriate the interest of the latter sum for five years , for that charge , and on this being complied with he gave up for that period his claim for the interest of the former sum , viz £400 , to the Aged and Infirm Ministers ' Fund . |
| 27 | The King , understandably enough , did not thank Asquith for implying that he would deviate from the role of strict constitutionality by denying to Labour what he had given to the other parties . |
| 28 | A copy of a paper he had given to the British Association on ‘ The car of the future ’ led to his being summoned to Detroit , and to a commission to design and build it . |
| 29 | He made a series of trips to Algeria reminiscent of those that he had made to the French provinces in the autumn of 1944 . |
| 30 | Accompanied by a number of his key allies , he had travelled to the southern SEZs in January to launch his counteroffensive [ see pp. 38722 ; 38764 ] . |