Example sentences of "he [vb mod] [vb infin] [adv] to the " in BNC.

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1 ( 8 ) If any party to an appeal to the sheriff under any provision of this Act ( other than Part VII ) is dissatisfied in point of law with a decision of the sheriff , he may appeal therefrom to the Court of Session within 28 days from the date of that decision .
2 In his absence , the Socialists gave him an ultimatum : he should hand over to the Communists .
3 It somehow did n't surprise her that he should go straight to the heart of things .
4 A twin-engined fighter is a beast , I told Messerschmitt he should go back to the drawing board .
5 He was then befriended by a young mother of two , , who took him shopping every week and suggested that he should go along to the centre .
6 When , in November , Coleridge was persuaded by his Bristol friends that he should return permanently to the city , he expressed sadness at leaving Clevedon , but probably felt relatively little , even though the only home available to him and Sara was in cramped quarters in Mrs Fricker 's house .
7 He should face up to the need to release those much-needed funds for Scotland .
8 If he wants a depressing story , he should look back to the housing expenditure of the last Labour Government .
9 He must listen attentively to the tales of how the amateur would have broken sixty-five in a competition last Saturday if he had not had such disgusting luck on the greens .
10 P.C. Clifford would have welcomed the tea , but said that he must get back to the scene of the tragedy .
11 With me on his back he must fly down to the Gruncher .
12 One of his mates thinks he said he might go up to the Common .
13 Time passed and the afternoon light began to fade and Creggan was just beginning to think that he might go back to the carrion he had found before the incoming tide took it , when he saw movement from shadows far below , and the opening of great wings .
14 This will be a normal working day for the man and after work he might go off to the pub for a drink with his mates .
15 He could n't touch her , she really was too young ; he imagined the pale peach cheeks of her child 's cunt and the runny sweetness inside , and thought he might duck back to the hut and toss himself off .
16 The Chairman of the company told him he was most impressed with the contribution he 's made to the business , and that he could go right to the top if he keeps it up .
17 He was thinking maybe , just maybe , he could dive over to the locker and grab his coat and get out .
18 Anyway , Reverend William Lee , his son and his brother , went over to France to see if Henry , King Henry of France could help him er but before he could get through to the court there King Henry died and then William Lee died without seeing his machine come to any sort of commercial fruition .
19 And with a short night 's sleep behind him and a miserable hour ahead of him before he could get away to the hospital , the day would be spoiled before it started .
20 Ken tried to rid himself of the guests , so that he could get away to the theatre , by telling Pat to call him to an imaginary telephone call .
21 There was no other way in which he could get up to the roof .
22 Asik simply wished he could live closer to the village but he knew there was no way his grandparents would survive the move , so he trundled on and tried dearly not to think about it .
23 He could drive down to The Randolph , and sort out that lying sod Ashenden !
24 And er , then he would carry all your goods in , in , I used to think it was wonderful how he managed to pick them all up in his arms and he 'd walk round to the next counter where your other , you had your other dry goods you see , your tea and sugar and your fruit and er then it would all be totted up together .
25 So that meant that he was he could n't sort of do a heavy heavy work so he just used to do odd job things you know , he 'd sell horse and carts and er he 'd go down to the pier when he used to do the fishing boats , he used to come in and he 'd buy a box of fish from them and go round the streets selling them you know .
26 Every holiday he 'd fly back to the Gulf to be with his family , to put his feet on the familiar sandy soil of his own land , and every holiday he 'd want me to go with him .
27 He left her in her room , thinking that perhaps he 'd climb up to the rocks on the crest of the headland and watch the sunlight on the lake until the mountain shadows took it away .
28 At halftime , he 'd come on to the pitch and give the whole team extra-strong mints , rearrange the tactics , change our positions , tell us we were playing downhill in the second half , tell us that a six-goal deficit was nothing .
29 Mrs Blakey , only a little less sceptical than her husband of this line of talk , nevertheless recalled how Timothy Gedge had affected her when he 'd come on to the telephone with a woman 's voice , and her bewilderment when the silence had first begun in the house .
30 It gets more and more embarrassing to watch Dustin Hoffman coughing and limping as if he 'd come straight to the film from a Broadway theatre . ’
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