Example sentences of "he [verb] the [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Born the son of a bank official , he was 23 when he made the five-week voyage to Britain aboard the Northern Star armed with an Auckland University degree to take up his scholarship place at Balliol College , Oxford , in the early 1960s . |
| 2 | And on MONDAY he tackles the 23-mile stretch to Lytchett Minster , with Bournemouth beckoning . |
| 3 | He hugged the old tailor to him , kissing his cheek while the tears rolled from his eyes . |
| 4 | Then , his smile broadening , he passed the second file to Ellis . |
| 5 | A man named William Talbot also claimed he sold the second gun to Henry . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He beat Martin Molony 's record of 92 wins in 1950 , that red letter day arriving on a Sunday in November when he rode the Ulster-owned Atone to a victory at Fairyhouse . |
| 8 | He applied the same principle to the Germans , who had participated through the Prussians in the dismemberment of Poland . |
| 9 | Unfortunately he applied the same stricture to himself and some of his works are rather limited . |
| 10 | He became the first pilot to aerial bomb Istanbul , and held the record for long distance bombing raids , many of which were in a Handley Page 0/400 . |
| 11 | He was a politician and a financier , well-known in his time ; but we remember him today because on the 15th of September 1830 , at the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway , he became the first person to be run down and killed by a train ( that 's what he became , was turned into ) . |
| 12 | In 1973 he became the first person to be Knighted for his contribution to conservation . |
| 13 | Today he became the first person to be charged under a new law introduced this month of causing death by dangerous driving . |
| 14 | ‘ When Vinnie swore the other day in the Blackburn game he became the first player to be sent off for swearing at a fellow professional . |
| 15 | Once again he led the storming party to the checkout flourishing the swipe card . |
| 16 | Will he make the appropriate representations to his colleagues at the Department of Transport ? |
| 17 | Later in the year he conveyed the same message to the visiting American Under-Secretary of State , George Ball . |
| 18 | Well , he posted the finished text to his publishers from Istanbul about three weeks after he arrived there . |
| 19 | With what seemed super-human strength and control he drew the short sword to the left , then back to the right , his intestines spilling out onto the cobbles . |
| 20 | Of Dustin 's performance , though , Clive Barnes in The New York Times wrote , ‘ He has the strange ability to be himself on the stage . |
| 21 | He has the heavenly Spirit to be his teacher . |
| 22 | He needs the main artery to his heart replacing . |
| 23 | He needs the main artery to his heart replacing . |
| 24 | He fixed the last lamp-holder to the roof rack and inspected his wiring . |
| 25 | As soon as he entered the first field to be cut his mates up-ended him and gave him the same treatment which stopped only when he shouted ‘ Beer ! ’ . |
| 26 | Then he transferred the same hand to the back pocket of his trousers and did some not very good patting of both flanks . |
| 27 | Gently , he lifted the last bantam to the top perch . |
| 28 | He told the whole story to Marc , he said , and there was another row , with Marc calling him everything under the sun . |
| 29 | He mounted the five steps to the front door and rang the bell . |
| 30 | Furthermore , in his continued discussion of the problem in Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego he likens the manic state to festivals such as the Roman Saturnalia , ‘ which owe their cheerful character to the release which they bring ’ . |