Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adv] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd just spoken to Detective Inspector Balfour in his hole on the Foulness road , but there was n't much news on that front . |
| 2 | And er he 'd only got to sort of look at you and er that was it . |
| 3 | I 'll be like Geor Geo George 's mother one year and his mo and his mother was in her seventies he came in says to daddy ho gosh ! |
| 4 | Firelight generally ate a bit of her haynet and by the time he settled down to go to sleep she lay down as well . |
| 5 | Moss escaped with his life but the famous " Lucky No.7 " car of his was not seen in a Formula One Grand Prix again although he did later return to saloon car racing . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , he did not go to university unwillingly . |
| 7 | He did not go to university but entered the Middle Temple in 1607 . |
| 8 | Yesterday , in a letter to the GP signatories , Mr Fallon says he did not refer to fundholding practices but believes they have benefitted from controlling their budgets . |
| 9 | The result was that his serious physical illness was assumed to be a form of ‘ school phobia ’ and his parents were threatened with a court order if he did not return to school Access to the file , including the head 's letter , would have enabled correction of the factual errors at least and perhaps an accurate diagnosis of his illness to be made . |
| 10 | Yet , in truth , he did not have to play-act . |
| 11 | He did not proceed to university in his seventeenth year but was instead apprenticed for £630 to the London wholesale grocery firm of Newnham and Shipley , in Watling Street It was a large indenture payment and coming , as it did , soon after his father 's death in March 1743 , was probably intended to secure a profitable mercantile future for him . |
| 12 | Then he did n't go to work for two days . |
| 13 | Oh yeah , yeah , he did n't go to school in Harlow |
| 14 | Now I would say to sa say that that is almost a bit like the story of the boy crying that he did n't have many holidays because he did n't go to school and that because Harrogate 's er unemployment is so low or has been historically so low compared with other areas , a relatively small increase in the number of unemployment has an enormous increase as compared with what it 's been in the past and so the same number of people living in Harrogate who lose their jobs has an impact on the unemployment figures as perceived locally greater than a similar number of people losing their jobs in Leeds or Selby or somewhere else , and so I think to some extent this the rhetoric has outrun the reality on that point . |
| 15 | He had been to school originally because that 's what she said he , then he did n't go to school and that 's why she said you know , how is he and she said |
| 16 | So during the war , he did n't , he did n't go to war , he stayed at home erm , you know , he worked at , in like food and , and so they were |
| 17 | ‘ It 's a shame he did n't stick to chess instead of cards , ’ the old man finished . |
| 18 | His own son was so ragged that he dared not go to school … |
| 19 | He had not adjusted to prison life as Nehru was able to do ; he had found it ‘ a shattering experience ’ . |
| 20 | He had not retired to bed sober , but then he rarely , if ever , did . |
| 21 | One could hardly assume that he had not gone to church out of piety and because it was Ash Wednesday , Ianthe thought , but it was rather puzzling and disturbing to think that she could n't even attend to her devotions in peace . |
| 22 | The various possible emphases in thinking about revelation are illuminatingly analysed by Dulles ( 1983 ) , using the method of ‘ models ’ which he had previously applied to ecclesiology . |
| 23 | He gave evidence in support of the claims of the tenantry before the Bessborough commission ( 1880 ) but he had already come to prominence when he performed brilliantly as an expert witness on canon law in the celebrated O'Keefe law case in 1875 . |
| 24 | Mr Mackie claimed he had later progressed to heroin and that Murray had again injected the drug to him . |
| 25 | He had n't gone to Auntie 's funeral — children often do n't . |
| 26 | He had often drunk to excess in alcoholic ‘ binges ’ . |
| 27 | He had swiftly risen to prominence during student demonstrations in favour of a multiparty system in Tirana in December 1990 , and the DP had that month been the first opposition party to be formed [ see p. 37924 ] . |
| 28 | Franca observed sadly , but without surprise , that her strange feeling of love for Patrick had waned and finally abated as he continued steadily to come to life . |