Example sentences of "[that] he [verb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He used to listen to American Football on the American Forces Network and was so enthused with it that he wrote to the American Embassy , who invited him to visit them for the day . |
| 2 | Indeed , the author of the work was so outraged by the Government 's claims about what was said in the work that he wrote to the Evening Standard on 1 October and said : ’ We found much to criticise about the British arrangement for training young people . |
| 3 | Will the Minister widen his reply to include funding of the national companies , and in particular will he explain the remarks that he made to the Royal Society of Arts last week , when he speculated on the Government funding the national companies directly ? |
| 4 | Perhaps the Home Secretary will get up to respond on the second point that he made to the Conservative party conference . |
| 5 | Is that what he has been seeking to negotiate in the references that he made to the limitations on deficits ? |
| 6 | He was a man of considerable literary taste ( I must report , in all modesty , that he subscribed to the Informer and never missed these ‘ jottings ’ ) who died , so the authorities would have us believe , by falling into an empty swimming-pool when drunk on hard-to-come-by malt whisky . |
| 7 | Despite the size of the stables and the fact that he belonged to the world of flat-racing where appearances count for something , Short had made no compromises . |
| 8 | Goff thought that Minton , consciously or unconsciously , divided his friends into two categories , serious and fun — and was aware that he belonged to the first . |
| 9 | It has been suggested that he belonged to the Bozon family of Norfolk , and that he may had studied at Oxford . |
| 10 | It is likely that he belonged to the friary in Nottingham ( he refers to the rivers Trent and Derwent as if they are familiar to him ) . |
| 11 | Is it not about time that he said to the 44 million voters who are sick and tired of the phoney election campaign that the general election will be on 9 April ? |
| 12 | It is likely that he listened to the sentimental ballads of the time , and married them to the classicism in which he was trained . |
| 13 | In Spain , the Jewish mystic Abraham Abulafia ( 1240-c.1291 ) had propounded a mental discipline that he compared to the science of harmony and music . |
| 14 | Since further complaints against him would almost certainly have been recorded , it is a fair guess that he took to the open life . |
| 15 | It was there , in Hanover , about 1716 that he came to the notice of Frederick , Prince of Wales . |
| 16 | Jean-Marie Chantreux , 28 , smirked as he told a Normandy court that he went to the shipping company to steal . |
| 17 | He told Norwich Crown Court he became so de-pressed that he went to the girl 's Felixstowe home , cut himself with a knife and rubbed poison into the wound in a suicide bid . |
| 18 | I was sorry that he went to the West Riding after only two terms , although this made me stand on my own feet quickly , which was of itself of value . |
| 19 | It was as a mere friend that he went to the private view of Vanessa 's second exhibition and met Rain Morgan . |
| 20 | A cocky 12-year-old in an expensive Goretex jacket , Kevin claims that he went to the boy 's home and was told by his father that he had not killed anyone . |
| 21 | Not at all — the price was too good — MacDonald 's factor was far too busy agreeing a price for the young folk that he sold to the Carolina merchants . |
| 22 | His complete acceptance of the ‘ protest ’ in ‘ Protestant ’ did not come till a few years later when some leading members of his Mount Merrion , Belfast , congregation insisted that he object to the Church 's ‘ street corner boy ’ activities of picketing the Irish Presbyterian Church General Assembly . |
| 23 | Unless that party , not less than seven days before the hearing , gives notice to the other party that he objects to the use of the affidavit , he is to be taken to have consented to the use of it and the affidavit may be used at the hearing unless the court otherwise orders ( Ord 20 , r 7(1) ) . |
| 24 | Second , that he objects to the topicality of the subject that he 's chosen , and finally that he 's not , of course , at home writing prose . |
| 25 | That was an entirely wrong policy , and I think it time that he apologised to the House for having espoused it . |
| 26 | This would be a feat of public agitation that he likens to the Anti-Corn Law League of the 1830s and 1840s , which successfully pressed home the case for free trade ( and caused a split in the Tory Party in the process ) . |
| 27 | The academic who describes himself at cocktail parties with the words ‘ I am a physicist ’ or ‘ I am a historian ’ is saying something about his self-perception ( essentially a researcher , not a teacher ) ; but is also saying that he subscribes to the disciplinary code imposed on its practitioners . |
| 28 | To Churchill and other Allied leaders de Gaulle claimed to speak for France : his subsequent career as Liberator , Father-figure and statesman owed much to the fact that he spoke to the French — when all seemed lost . |
| 29 | The Commander-in-Chief in 1939 felt it necessary to review his " troops ' ; and when he came to Driffield he obviously felt that the Occasion was so important that he spoke to the officers in one corner of the hangar and spoke to the sergeant pilots in another . |
| 30 | Is he able to elaborate on the answer that he gave to the hon. and learned Member for Fife , North-East ? |