Example sentences of "he [vb past] [to-vb] [prep] 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 | The year before he 'd been into the whole Absolute Beginners scene and everything around him had to date from the late ‘ fifties , early ‘ sixties . |
| 3 | He had himself frequently led patrols along the narrow roads and boreens that ran like veins through the countryside about Cork , and before that he had spent more time than he cared to remember in the muddy trenches and dug-outs of France with shells screaming overhead . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He agreed to write to the Peruvian Government . |
| 6 | After a lengthy loan spell at Leeds in which he failed to break into the first team , he signed for Shrewsbury in 1986 for £25,000 . |
| 7 | He sought to negotiate over the following issues : |
| 8 | An objector , who had not given the notice required by the rule , was not allowed to oppose confirmation when he sought to appear before the confirming authority , and the licence was confirmed . |
| 9 | He tried to take in the surrounding countryside that was to be his home during the months that lay ahead — if he lived that long . |
| 10 | He tried to relax for the first time . |
| 11 | ‘ Day seven today , Piper , 12th June , ’ Taff remarked as he tried to move around the cramped area of his trench collecting his bits of equipment . |
| 12 | He tried to see through the net curtain but he could see nothing . |
| 13 | As he tried to peer through the impenetrable veil of snow , searching in vain for some landmark or the vague outline of a barn , George 's foot came unexpectedly into contact with a large stone , almost buried in the snow . |
| 14 | Francis might have more to tell of these towns — of their poor and their beggars — whom he tried to raise from the dull misery of want to accept and bless their lot by enjoying poverty and simplicity as great as theirs . |
| 15 | He tried to think of the worst that could happen . |
| 16 | He tried to get into the wrong car-park and was , inevitably , confronted by a Lord 's gateman who succeeded in making far from happy . |
| 17 | William Joyce did the same , without such assistance , and entered his name for Battersea Polytechnic , where he proposed to study for the intermediate examination of the London University BSc degree . |
| 18 | After discussion with the therapist , Tony agreed to start searching for another job more systematically ; he proposed to look at the local newspapers twice a week for possible job vacancies . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He held office for twenty-seven years and became one of the most renowned figures who have ever served the BDDA , because of his devotion to the cause of deafness and the dominating position he came to hold in the deaf world . |
| 21 | Air lifts were now out of the question , but trains were still a practical proposition — as Chadwick discovered when he came to deal with the Nazi official in charge of emigration . |
| 22 | He came to stoop over the trussed man , tested his bonds with a fierce and agonising tug . |
| 23 | At once he seemed to merge with the green-black forms of the room . |
| 24 | Lifting his head , he turned to grin at the little girl . |
| 25 | His feet felt like lead and slowly , fearfully , he turned to look in the general direction of the voice . |
| 26 | He happened to work for the same paper which stitched Botham up some eight years ago . |
| 27 | The violent opposition to the king 's friends of Thomas , Earl of Lancaster , forced Audley to leave the court in 1318 , but he returned to serve in the royal army at the siege of Berwick in September 1319 . |
| 28 | Schmidt , however , like Giscard in France , showed his independence of America by talking to Soviet leaders in Moscow in July 1980 and he returned to triumph in the general election . |
| 29 | In the autumn of 1854 , however , after the allied landing in the Crimea , he began to dwell on the domestic hardships to which the war was giving rise . |
| 30 | But to detectives who investigated the crimes of Dr Courtney , he began to emerge as the perfect model of a rapist . |