Example sentences of "he [verb] [art] [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | That night and for many nights afterwards he took the lighter to bed with him , and lay there , thinking of Kate and feeling the metal growing warm in his hand , until he fell asleep . |
| 32 | He still hoped for a settlement , but each time he sent a communication to Bidault it was unaccountably held up by d'Argenlieu . |
| 33 | He sent a copy to Hall , with a request to sell it for sixpence at the exhibition . |
| 34 | But he feared a jaunt to Expo 92 in Seville would send the wrong message to the markets — and did not want the humiliation of returning early to deal with a sterling crisis . |
| 35 | He brought a cigarette to school . |
| 36 | He put the coals to No 84 and passed the Super Corsair and Old Crow . |
| 37 | Michael , when he was at s When he was at school , he won a scholarship to university , when he got to the university he said as if he 'd made a great discovery . |
| 38 | He attributed the offence to pressure from his friends to carry the scheme out , when it was thought up . |
| 39 | He donated the fee to charity . |
| 40 | But when he presented the bill to Hurley for reimbursement , Hurley refused to pay , insisting the DEA field office in Los Angeles should pick up the tab . |
| 41 | So he had no recourse to masturbation that afternoon but went back into the lake instead , which was cold enough to supply one of the well-known Victorian antidotes to sexual desire . |
| 42 | Certainly the picture of him during this period is of a man haunted by guilt and remorse ; it seems that he felt he had no right to happiness , and the death of his wife had only served to convince him that he had done some irreparable harm to another human being , for which he must undergo a period of punishment . |
| 43 | And worst of all he carried with him the sense that he had no right to life , no more than hundreds or thousands of others , starting with his family , who had not lived . |
| 44 | And he was also very tired : when sitting to Wyndham lewis in the spring , he had a tendency to drowsiness and sometimes slumber . |
| 45 | Joseph Robinson was aware of what was good for business but he was also a man who prided himself on his love of sport : this meant that he had a responsibility to knowledge and experience . |
| 46 | Above all , he had a line to COBRA — the Cabinet Office Briefing Room . |
| 47 | To begin with the obvious , there is no record that he forced a woman to bed against her will — none ; there is no rumble of the stain of real deceit — it seems he always made the rules of the arrangement clear . |
| 48 | WAITING for the fate of Fulham 's football ground to be determined proved too much for one fan so he wrote a poem to Chairman George Younger . |
| 49 | Ginny managed to take off her coat , put the milk away and turn on the oven before he ran the pad to earth on the table beside his armchair . |
| 50 | It 's difficult , cos I know Adam does n't like the idea of employing secretaries he likes the idea to sort of to , to maximize by having somebody that does both . |
| 51 | And in Basil Fawlty-style he suggests an alternative to milk — Coca-Cola sprinkled with basil . |
| 52 | His leg gave way and he pushed the child to safety . |
| 53 | He encoded a message to Control saying he had decided to abandon the DEA assignment and would await clearance for departure . |