Example sentences of "he [verb] to the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Larkin is haunted by memories of a visit he made to the secluded woods at along with Marie Pettitt , Gary 's mother . |
| 2 | He belongs to the General Workers ' Union ( UGT ) , which has quarrelled with the Socialist Party . |
| 3 | Increasingly he resorted to the crudest measurements of progress and methods of achieving it . |
| 4 | MB 's is wearing clothes that do not fit in the first example eg. This time he refers to the good opinions that people have of him as new clothes and killing the king would be like throwing away hardly worn clothes . |
| 5 | He refers to the lithographed drawings as ‘ engravings ’ , and he used many short lines like an engraver scratching on copper ; pioneers are often conservative , and it was left to Edward Lear in his superb volume on parrots ( 1832 ) to exploit lithography , using bold flowing lines with his crayon on the stone . |
| 6 | It is a welcome return from the golfing wilderness for the former Durham County champion who carried hopes of a highly successful professional career when he moved to the paid ranks after gaining international honours some five years ago . |
| 7 | Did he appeal to the younger members ? |
| 8 | He referred to the frequent complaints from industry that new recruits from school were ill-equipped with basic skills . |
| 9 | He referred to the political reforms introduced by the Treasury in other Departments and to the Financial Management Initiative . |
| 10 | He referred to the major classes by number , the minor ones by letter . |
| 11 | He referred to the economic problems faced by architects and wider matters affecting the professions in speeches in the House of Lords . |
| 12 | At the Kazan " requiem for the victims of Bezdna ( which took place in the emotionally charged atmosphere of Palm Sunday ) he stepped forward at the end of the service with a commemorative address in which he referred to the dead peasants as " friends , killed for the people " . |
| 13 | He shouted to the two cops to turn me over to Harvey . |
| 14 | ‘ To take me to Eretz ! he shouted to the empty fields round about . |
| 15 | In a speech to the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Feb. 12 , Menem claimed that Argentina had left behind its Third-World status and non-aligned past [ for Argentina 's September 1991 exit from the Non-Aligned Movement see pp. 38458-59 ] , and he appealed to the European Communities ( EC ) not to become isolationist as they pursued economic and political union . |
| 16 | He ran on until he came to the tall reeds . |
| 17 | He sorted through Blanche 's things deliberately , one by one , and only stopped when he came to the building-society books she had purloined and Marek 's exercise book . |
| 18 | Did he refer to the high standards of social protection in this country ? |
| 19 | Then he turned to the other children and clapped his hands once more . |
| 20 | He turned to the two men who had followed him up the gangway . |
| 21 | He was really pleased when he graduated to the bigger ones . |
| 22 | He tends to me as one would a convalescent child delirious with a terminal but ticklish illness ; he tends to the outermost hazards of my body ( he is so violent and so tender ) and back to a cave of foetal musk , molested by warmth . |
| 23 | Disappearing into a back room , he emerged carrying a gold watch and chain which he handed to the two policemen . |
| 24 | He returned to the original sources , in particular the Disquisitiones arithmeticae of Gauss ( published in 1801 ) , and to the writings of Karl Jacobi and Ferdinand Eisenstein . |
| 25 | In Leicestershire , the man who wishes to forget income-tax , hydrogen bombs and the relentless onward march of science walks the field-paths , to which special maps and guides are provided ; in Devon he takes to the deep lanes between the farms . |
| 26 | He made it harder for himself , though much more valuable , by refusing to take short cuts or to mug up the subject from the textbooks : he went to the original sources . |
| 27 | As soon as Moby was too old for puppy classes , he went to the bigger-dog classes , run by Jenny , to reinforce what he 'd been taught at puppy classes and , most importantly , what he 'd learned at home . |
| 28 | He went to the 1928 Olympics , equalling the 100 yards record in the semi-final . |
| 29 | He described three miasms ( syphilis , sycosis and psora ) which he related to the venereal diseases ( syphilis and gonorrhoea ) and the skin itch ( akin to psoriasis ) respectively . |
| 30 | It is likely that he listened to the sentimental ballads of the time , and married them to the classicism in which he was trained . |