Example sentences of "[coord] he [verb] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So he phoned up and he had to redial two or three times before he started . |
| 2 | Wylie 's desire to maintain a more traditional notion of religion as a matter of truth and falsity ( where those with the truth have an obligation publicly to denounce falsity ) brought him into conflict with the state and he responded to that challenge by standing for election to the council . |
| 3 | He took a step towards Fincara , but the floor inside the Tower was the same slippery glass , and he fell to one knee . |
| 4 | His trouser legs were scorching from the fire and he twisted to one side . |
| 5 | And the marvellous thing in Plato of Socrates , when he 'd been told by the Delphic Oracle that he was the wisest of men , he started off like a sort of good poperian scientist trying to falsify this and he went round finding people wiser than himself and he went to various people and they were n't any wiser , and then he thought ‘ Oh , the poets , they 're marvellous people , they know so much ’ , and he went to them and he found that the had n't a clue what they 'd written . |
| 6 | And the marvellous thing in Plato , of Socrates , erm when he 'd been told by the Delphic oracle that he was the wisest of men , he , he started off like a sort of good Popperian scientist trying to falsify this , erm and he went round finding people wiser than himself , and he went to various people and they were n't any wiser , and then he thought , ‘ Oh , the poets ! |
| 7 | Me husband had the same trouble with other doctors and he went to two . |
| 8 | He 's watched football in every league ground in England , all 92 , and he 's been to America , to watch West Bromwich playing in America , he 's been to the last two or three world cup tournaments , and he goes to all the matches away , you know , European cup matches and everything that English teams are playing in , he 's all over the world watching it , you see , This year , he 's watched 22 games , which is about fifty per cent of his normal , and even he 's getting browned off … |
| 9 | And he goes to that beer up at er Cross Brampt Chase |
| 10 | ‘ After a day he will know the names of everyone on the set and he goes to great lengths to make sure we all enjoy ourselves , organising lunches and so on . |
| 11 | So he stopped and he listened to this and went to have a look , see what was going on . |
| 12 | In the following conversational fragment , we shall say , for example , that speaker A uses the expressions my uncle and he to refer to one individual and my mother 's sister and she to refer to another . |
| 13 | Fleischmann certainly was concerned about the momentum of events ; the news from Harwell magnified this and he expressed to some colleagues his nervousness and wish that the press conference could be stopped . |
| 14 | John said ( again according to Patricia Miller ) that if he left South Africa , he would never return , and he kept to that . |
| 15 | The Ethics of Corporal Punishment appeared in 1907 and he returned to this theme in 1916 in The Flogging Craze , a Statement of the Case against Corporal Punishment . |
| 16 | He came up and swore he 'd never go down again , it was no life for an animal ] And he stuck to that . |
| 17 | We left there , we left about half five , six in the morning did n't we and we were getting lost in and we knew it was in the village in that town but we could n't find it and we kept getting lost so we all pulled her up and he went back and he said to this man can you tell me where the |
| 18 | St. Saviour 's Church for the Deaf owed its new electric lighting and heating system to his generosity , and he contributed to many deaf charities . |
| 19 | But , like Morgan , his main orientation was historical and he contributed to evolutionary theory by introducing the term ‘ survival ’ for those customs or beliefs which , like the human appendix , linger on anachronistically out of context . |
| 20 | In 1340 he was assessed to pay £10 towards the loan of £5,000 made to the king by the city of London ; and he contributed to another loan in 1346 . |
| 21 | And he returns to that one angry , unsigned letter . |
| 22 | And he turned to some of the people he had hated , and apologised . |
| 23 | Well the Bill was , who was the manager in those days was very much the manager , and there was one of the directors used to play for the Villa , and he used to more or less look after the playing side which the rest of the directors never seemed to interfere with , they , they left the management up to the manager the selection of the team , Bill and the trainer when they were in the second division was Arthur who 's manager of Derby County now , he had the , I believe he had a sad time when he was at Walsall he , he lost his wife in a car accident and |
| 24 | He had been accused of clinging to Office , but he appealed to all those present to say whether such a charge was justifiable . |
| 25 | He never lost his ability to fire others with a passion for great painting of the past , but he began to weary of the College and was often found with his students , not in the studios , but in the nearby pub , the Hoop and Toy . |
| 26 | I do n't think he 's a very good people manager , but he admits to that , which is half the battle . ’ |
| 27 | But he went to great pains to exclude all mention of the Spirit as available for believers from his Gospel , with one notable exception . |
| 28 | Thom was nearly caught in New Jersey , but he fled to another state . |
| 29 | During World War II McLachlan 's laboratory in central London was badly damaged but he moved to various locations , including the Pharmaceutical Society in Bloomsbury Square . |