Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He lived long enough to hear the Court announce on June 26 that it had rejected Australia 's Preliminary Objections concerning the Court 's jurisdiction in the case and the admissibility of Nauru 's claim . |
| 2 | He fought back bravely to regain the initiative of the argument . |
| 3 | He recovered quickly enough to win the Army squash championship . |
| 4 | He tried once more to see the Queen but her fat , pompous chamberlain rudely announced that Lady Yolande was leaving Scotland and had no wish to discuss anything with anyone . |
| 5 | The dog got over-excited and took exception to one of the chefs and had to be shut in the barn where he howled mournfully enough to wake the dead . |
| 6 | He was often away a fortnight or three weeks at a time , but he came back here to use the cleaner . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ This has been the most savage start of any of the walks I 've done , ’ panted Beefy , as he walked backwards downhill to relieve the strain in his calves . |
| 8 | He went back inside to join the queue for the toilets , leaving Jude at the door , watching the blobs of wet snow pass through the lamplight . |
| 9 | ‘ Hello , I 'm Kenneth Baker the Home Secretary , ’ he boomed to the sound of grating teeth as he strode forward purposefully to press the flesh of a pensioner . |
| 10 | Erm er I was concerned when my Noble Friend said that he 'd looked up Hallsbury but that it did n't contain the right words , er er I rather wonder whether he looked up so to speak the right version or the last version . |
| 11 | By 1310 , therefore , when Edward moved his court and government to York in order to escape the inhibiting surveillance of the Ordainers , he did so ostensibly to combat the Scottish menace . |
| 12 | Sometimes he wet himself when he was distressed in the night , or when he slept too deeply to heed the warning pains of a full bladder . |
| 13 | He wrote not only to defend the faith against persecuting governors , sceptical philosophers , and combative rabbis , but also to uphold the authentic tradition against Simon Magus ' followers ( Acts 8 : 9 ) or the adherents of Marcion and the Gnosticizing Platonist Valentine . |