Example sentences of "he [adv] [verb] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , for example , he compulsively returns to the idea that history might consist of several totalizations rather than one : |
| 2 | The fourth shot struck again in the chest , slamming Doyle hard against the wall , leaving a bloody smear as he slowly slipped to the floor , his eyes half closed , the breath wheezing from his lungs . |
| 3 | By stating that he rarely went to the theatre , and needed to be forcibly taken there if he went at all , he managed to lay bare the inadequacies of modern drama and defined the conditions of a new sort of drama altogether . |
| 4 | He rarely spoke to the rest of us peasants in the house , though when he did he was nothing but polite . |
| 5 | An addict only stops when he personally comes to the conclusion that his addiction is bringing him more trouble and suffering than pleasure . |
| 6 | He only came to the forefront as ‘ governer and ruler of the kingdom ’ , to use Walsingham 's words , ’ after the Good Parliament of 1376 . |
| 7 | This man , who told Huy that he only went to the place to drink , never having had a problem when it came to finding a girl , was looking urgently for somebody to work on his paperbeating team as one of his men had died suddenly from river fever . |
| 8 | Indeed , why was he so drawn to the case ? |
| 9 | The Officer had gone a few yards when he suddenly fell to the ground . |
| 10 | Why now , when all this time he 'd stuck rigidly to her real , rather austere christian name , had he suddenly switched to the softer-sounding Rory ? |
| 11 | After twice refusing , he finally agreed to the demand of a petition of over 10,000 names asking for a session of the inquiry to be held in Bristol . |
| 12 | ‘ Sorry about no Berlin , ’ he said when he finally returned to the compartment . |
| 13 | But if an entrepreneur perceives the possibility of gaining profit by offering to buy at a price attractive to sellers and by offering to sell at a price attractive to buyers , the opportunities he thus offers to the market can in principle be made available by anyone . |
| 14 | On one occasion , when Sarah Bernhardt was the guest of honour at a Savoy dinner , he cooked the greater part of the meal at a side table under her very eyes ; his carving of the duck was a flamboyant display of swordsmanship ; when asked if he ever went to the theatre he replied that he would rather see six gourmets eating a perfectly cooked meal than watch the finest performance of Bernhardt or of Coquelin . |
| 15 | In this 22nd consecutive month of rising unemployment does he still cling to the pretence that the recovery has already started ? |
| 16 | Can he further explain to the House how the Ministry of Defence justifies importing thousands of tonnes of beef from South America to feed our forces when we have almost 1 million tonnes in intervention in Europe ? |
| 17 | Actually there 's Paul , the guy who 'd given me a lift to the concert and , and he mentioned going to the , the film I saw , erm but I knew he was going to the pub , he always goes to the pub afterwards . |
| 18 | He always rushed to the phone , he would n't let me answer the phone you see . |
| 19 | A small trainer like me has a job to tick over , let alone make a living , but he always comes to the rescue . |
| 20 | And it is well known that , being required to prepare designs for a useless and costly object by one of our leading nobility , long since deceased , one of princely fortune , but who had an extravagant passion for building , he purposely appealed to the son to advise his father to give the intention ’ . |
| 21 | He usually reports to the head of the company or to a steering committee composed of high-level executives . |
| 22 | He also saw to the payment of the doctors and nurses who looked after Paul , though he never visited him , any more than Dinah did . |
| 23 | He also added to the work of his uncle , Stephen Robson . |
| 24 | He also appealed to the leader of the influential opposition Azerbaijan People 's Front ( APF ) Ebulfez Echibey for co-operation . |
| 25 | Mostly he is talking about a period before the war but he also refers to the uprising against the Germans in 1912 , and some events immediately after the last war , and to a man he describes as his brother . |
| 26 | He also bequeathed to the School " a greeke Scapula , a Cowpers dictionarie , my Hebrew Bible , and a little dictionarie in Hebrew " . |
| 27 | He also pointed to the lack of evidence of consistent female choice for mates carrying particular characteristics . |
| 28 | He also pointed to the emergence of the ‘ electronic highway ’ , where books can be ordered through computerised electronic mail . |
| 29 | He also referred to the case of the three railwaymen , dismissed for refusing to join a trade union , who had succeeded before the Court of Human Rights and he reached the conclusion that the relevant article of the Convention was ‘ part of the law of England or at any rate the same as the law of England ’ . |
| 30 | He later transferred to the production department as an assistant director . |