Example sentences of "[adj] he [verb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1895 he went to the new colony of Rhodesia and became a trooper in the Matabeleland regiment of the British South Africa Police . |
| 2 | Walker ( 1975 ) has noted that mature students who did not satisfy the GER obtained significantly better degree results than all students while mature students who satisfied the GER did not differ significantly from the norm , and in seeking an explanation for this he points to the fact that those who did not satisfy the GER are on average somewhat older and can be seen as genuine returners , rather than students who have taken longer to meet the traditional qualifications . |
| 3 | This he attributed to the solo exercise . |
| 4 | Fossils from more recent strata showed progressively less similarities with time in the different continents ; this he attributed to the contrasting evolutionary paths of groups of animals and plants separated by continental drift . |
| 5 | For a brief period after his accession Henry VII allowed the old Exchequer system to revive ; but from about 1493 he reverted to the methods of his immediate predecessors . |
| 6 | In January 1867 he went to the Paris exhibition as horticultural correspondent for that weekly , as well as the Field and The Times , and started to write his first two books , Gleanings from French Gardens ( 1868 ) and The Parks , Promenades and Gardens of Paris ( 1869 ) . |
| 7 | He and She can refer to the third party in either of the triangular relationships , but in Sonnet 2 He refers to the Friend 's future child , while in 3 She refers to the Friend 's mother ; in 50 and 51 He refers to the poet 's horse ! |
| 8 | ‘ And when he was recovering from his sickness here in my house , I noticed how similar he looked to the girl 's face in the picture . |
| 9 | In 1874 he went to the Barrow Shipbuilding Co. as manager of the water-tube boiler department , becoming secretary in 1876 . |
| 10 | In deference to the apparent madness of King George III he agreed to the Lord Chamberlain 's proposal , as play censor , to omit Shakespeare 's King Lear from the repertory which told of a monarch similarly afflicted ; but clashed with him over The School for Scandal , the objections to which , however , he managed to resolve , bringing him a period of near prosperity . |
| 11 | Off he goes , bzz , bzz , look-till he comes to the dog 's house . |
| 12 | His enterprise did not stop here and in 1786 he advertised to the public that he had opened another school for ladies , ‘ at his house at 2 Brazenose Street in drawing , writing and accounts , ladies and gentlemen instructed at home and boarding schools attended as usual . ’ |
| 13 | In 1963 he turned to the theatre , directing Titus Andronicus and other plays at the Birmigham Rep , and showing himself adept at producing the intimate and affable atmosphere of the small screen on stage . |
| 14 | Yes , they realised how much he meant to the fans . |
| 15 | In 1648 he wrote to the Westminster Assembly , criticizing the Presbyterian system it had devised , but the only result was the suspension of his augmentation at Winchester . |
| 16 | Indeed in 1984 he presented to the president a pipe-march he had composed with the ringing title of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland . |
| 17 | After the Nazi occupation of France in 1940 he escaped to the United States where Enrico Fermi and Leo Szilard tried to recruit him to their team at Columbia but were prevented because Washington at that time did not recognise the Free French forces . |
| 18 | On 22 January 1946 he agreed to the formation of the Central Intelligence Group ( CIG ) , which was to be a small organisation simply collating all forms of foreign intelligence and reporting back to the president through the National Intelligence Authority ( NIA ) . |
| 19 | Then at the age of 35 he moved to the ruined fortress of Pispir on the east bank of the Nile . |
| 20 | In 1969 he moved to the Carr Lane site where he joined the engineering fraternity . |
| 21 | In 1626 he reported to the Commons on the outcome of the York House conference , at which George Villiers , first Duke of Buckingham [ q.v. ] , had declared his support for Arminianism ; and when he delivered one of the Commons charges against Buckingham in the Lords he added his own gloss that he was ‘ the principal patron of a semi-pelagian , semi-popish faction , dangerous to church and state , lately set on foot among us . ’ |
| 22 | In 1147 he succeeded to the dukedom of Swabia , and within a year he set out to take part in the Second Crusade , under the command of his uncle Conrad III and Louis VII of France . |
| 23 | In 1904 he wrote to the poet and critic Arthur Symons : ‘ I have , however , of late years , lapsed so deeply into my early weakness for verse , & have found the condensed expression that it affords so much more consonant to my natural way of thinking & feeling that I have almost forgotten the prose effusions for the time . ’ |
| 24 | In 1859 he went to the brink of war with American troops over San Juan Island , despite his council 's urging restraint . |
| 25 | In 1862 he travelled to the island of Sardinia to advise on the developing railway system there . |
| 26 | Among other personal touches , he introduces seafaring imagery on several occasions : Christ is helmsman in psalm 31 , and in psalm 89 he adds to the raging sea of verse 9 a reference to the navy which is very expressive of his Englishness . |
| 27 | ‘ And when you get there , make sure he goes to the Gentlemen 's Cloakroom and has a good wash before the interview . |
| 28 | He played a song at the end of the interview , and all he said to the band was : ‘ When I kick , that means I 'm going to start , and when I kick my leg again , that means I 'm going to stop . ’ |
| 29 | This shows an irony that although Saint Francis gave all he had to the needy , the church is spending its money on building magnificent and expensive structures instead of giving it to the poor . |
| 30 | This was speedily agreed , but the Headmaster was not able to see it in use himself , for in July 1902 he announced to the Governors that he had been offered — and intended to accept — a small country living , a " less onerous position " . |