Example sentences of "[noun] he [vb past] [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He repudiated the oath by which he had restored to the Holy See the ecclesiastical rights and privileges enjoyed by the emperors and the kings of Sicily and within a few months of his coronation he began to progress down into Italy . |
| 2 | The players have now scored 70 goals between them for Rangers in all competitions this season , though McCoist was jocularly chided by his manager as he attempted to reply to the unanswerable question , posed him by a foreign journalist , of how many goals he expected to score tonight . |
| 3 | Waugh heard BBC Third Programme discussions about himself , a form of torture he came to feel peculiarly representative of the modern age he despised . |
| 4 | So to pay the rent he had to go off to Czechoslovakia and Australia to do films he knew were n't much good . |
| 5 | There was little he could do to combat the hostility of the media , but after the frustrations of his first term he decided to face up to the bureaucracy and the legislature . |
| 6 | According to Geoffrey le Baker , the bishop first of all called upon Edward to abdicate , and in an emotional scene he agreed to do so . |
| 7 | When he started to his feet he had to lean hard on the arm of the chair while a moment of dizziness passed . |
| 8 | Dr Julius Grayling , the man in charge , says that he would have had a worse chance of getting a grant from the Mandan Foundation if he had applied with a literal description of the work he wanted to carry out . |
| 9 | When he came to V. D. L. he intended to stop only a month . |
| 10 | Adam of Bremen confirms this , and recounts that with Olaf 's help he intended to conquer both England and Norway . |
| 11 | ‘ What a pity he had to go out . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Is that the boy he wanted to bring home in the holidays ? ’ his father demanded . |
| 13 | This is because as Dickens wrote his novels as weekly instalments he had to put enough into each instalment whether it be a couple of chapters or many , enough to captivate his readers and cause them to wait with eagerness for the next instalment . |
| 14 | At home he decided to go in for wholesale enclosures , encouraged his tenants to take long leases by reducing their rents , and instructed them in modern scientific methods . |
| 15 | The truth is that the liberties he wanted to take simply disrupted his attempts to produce marketable drawings for Theo , and for his connections in The Hague ( such as his Uncle Cor ) . |
| 16 | I hen he had to check out his card and his score . |
| 17 | Surely it was his duty to be ? she told herself , not realising that at that very moment he was sitting listening to a paper being read at a learned society , his mind occupied with a particularly tricky question he intended to ask when the speaker sat down . |
| 18 | ‘ He chopped and changed the side at whim and never allowed any team he selected to settle down and establish a set pattern of play . ’ |
| 19 | When Betty Marsden positioned herself in front of the microphone , that was the moment he chose to touch up her bottom . |
| 20 | From the moment he decided to take up running nine years ago at the age of 38 , Zarei had never been interested in running against the clock , or in beating others . |
| 21 | He had worked out that in his job he got to handle over 6,000 pairs of dirty underpants from sixty countries each year . |
| 22 | In this post he helped to build up the airship service into a major weapon in the war at sea . |
| 23 | At one point he had to slow down for a distance of several miles . |
| 24 | At this point he decided to turn back , for even now it would be eleven before he was home and it was seldom he stayed out as late as that . |
| 25 | He slept on a straw pallet in the low attic space at the Widow MacIntosh 's and these days he hated to wake up . |
| 26 | As one of his responsibilities he began to build up a permanent collection of works of Art for West Riding Schools . |
| 27 | That was n't a truth he wanted to hear so there was quite a heated exchange . |
| 28 | I 've got a little bit here going from Mr he had to come in again and see to two lights and he 'd only take two pounds and that included the light bulb , but I paid him so that comes out of the . |
| 29 | So on his way to Yorkshire last Thursday evening he decided to call in and try to get things settled . ’ |
| 30 | The late autumn and winter again aggravated his emphysema and he looked tired and pale.Although he preferred to stay where he was , his doctor insisted that he travel once more to the sun for the worst of the winter , and at the end of 1960 the Eliots went to Jamaica . |