Example sentences of "he [vb past] [to-vb] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | He agreed to write to the Peruvian Government . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | And he began to connect to the nascent counter-culture , visiting Pete Brown 's home in Oppidans Road , Primrose Hill . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He offered to talk to the three Ulster MEPs , one of whom was Mr Ian Paisley , the Democratic Unionists ' leader . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 12 | He paused to speak to the surprised group and their wide smiles of acknowledgement started the day off well . |
| 13 | He had something he wanted to say to the Christian world and the question was how best to say it . |
| 14 | He felt he wanted to go to the gipsy encampment and tell Boz that Anna could not marry Nahum . |
| 15 | The players have now scored 70 goals between them for Rangers in all competitions this season , though McCoist was jocularly chided by his manager as he attempted to reply to the unanswerable question , posed him by a foreign journalist , of how many goals he expected to score tonight . |
| 16 | Later , he refused to certify to the Inland Revenue that the company had not engaged in further similar transactions , and he was sacked . |