Example sentences of "he [verb] [art] [adj] [noun pl] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he scanned the laden shelves to left and right , there was suddenly a sound like a hundred ball-bearings being dropped from a height on to the bare floorboards . |
| 2 | Will he make the appropriate representations to his colleagues at the Department of Transport ? |
| 3 | He has no legal rights to the property . |
| 4 | He mounted the five steps to the front door and rang the bell . |
| 5 | Bede says that he reduced the southern Saxons to a more grievous servitude on the death of Berhthun ( HE IV , 15 ) , and the situation in Kent may have been similar , the kingdom reduced to economic and political disarray.27 |
| 6 | At the reception desk , he murmured a few words to the elaborately uniformed commissionaire and was shown respectfully towards the lift . |
| 7 | At three o'clock he drove the four miles to Rose Brady 's house . |
| 8 | Then he turned the few feet to Creggan 's cage and stared up to where Creggan had taken stance on the bare branch of wood that hung across his cage . |
| 9 | He climbed the three steps to the door , and pushed at it , but it was securely locked , so he went to the nearest window . |
| 10 | Without conscious intent he walked the few steps to the bookshop . |
| 11 | With a small haw he cut the bent ends to fractionally different lengths . |
| 12 | And he watched the high hills to the west , and knew that out there , also , there were other women whose faces he knew . |
| 13 | He punted the few yards to the shore . |
| 14 | He it was who inaugurated Continental excursions , for in 1925 he took a dozen boys to Bruges for eight days on an educational visit . |
| 15 | When in 1862 the general synod of the SEC removed the Scottish communion office from its primacy of authority over the English Book of Common Prayer he took the Episcopal bishops to court , appealing as far as the House of Lords ; he defended his case himself but lost the action in 1867 . |
| 16 | The wound plagued an injured nerve for the last time as he took the few steps to the trapdoor under the beam . |
| 17 | After turning in 32 he treated the sun-basking crowds to some confident shot making , adding further birdies at the tenth and fourteenth to underline his command |
| 18 | The first year that they obtained a vintage of acceptable quality , he sent a dozen cases to his old régisseur to lay down , and invited him for a tasting . |
| 19 | He did not move , but his hand sought hers and he brought the soft fingers to his lips , mouthing them gently , one by one , turning her palm up to press a kiss inside it , passing his tongue lightly over the pink tips , so passive in his grasp . |
| 20 | STRONGER-than-expected factory production revealed yesterday provided another ray of hope for Chancellor Norman Lamont as he put the final touches to the Budget . |
| 21 | He put the finishing touches to his long-interrupted Cur Deus Homo , and he prepared his defence of the Latin doctrine of the Procession of the Holy Spirit . |
| 22 | He remembered the menacing phone-calls to Nicola and wondered aloud whether someone from a drugs syndicate had been trying to scare her . |
| 23 | FLY tying has become an absorbing hobby for Jim Lister as he puts the finishing touches to another specimen during his lunch break in the BMK canteen . |
| 24 | He ran the few yards to the fence . |
| 25 | He summoned the leading rebels to a conference at Grandmont . |
| 26 | He wanted a few answers to a few riddles . |
| 27 | He inflamed the Black Panthers to violence and encouraged the Jewish Defence League to violence against the Black Panthers . |
| 28 | Both the Government and union lawyers were poring over Lord Justice Iain Glidewell 's ruling to see if he intended the 10 pits to be re-opened . |