Example sentences of "in [verb] he [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Hill recognises he owes both his famous and late dad and his predecessor at Williams , Nigel Mansell , thanks for their efforts in helping him to land the chance he now has . |
| 2 | Jonadab had made it clear that he had done his son-in-law a favour in allowing him to jump the queue and buy four of his grey shirehorses and now Stephen had to screw up his courage and confess that one was dead . |
| 3 | Once Richard had launched his attack on the Woodvilles , moreover , he exposed himself to recriminations should Edward V come to power , and this in turn may have played some part in deciding him to take the throne . |
| 4 | Once Richard had launched his attack on the Woodvilles , moreover , he exposed himself to recriminations should Edward V come to power , and this in turn may have played some part in deciding him to take the throne . |
| 5 | The injunction that Churchill gave Hugh Dalton , in asking him to oversee the Special Operations Executive , was ‘ to set Europe ablaze ’ . |
| 6 | Although he still speaks bitterly of the pressure put on him by the authorities , in fact they never succeeded in obliging him to send the children to school ; he was not even fined as he would have been in Britain . |