Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] to [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was also the crazy lifestyle , in particular , with Bettye Fulford , the woman he became disengaged to when he learned she was 39 not 29 and who served a parternity order on him at this year 's US Masters . |
| 2 | See the girl he got married to now , she 's really lovely ! |
| 3 | It is true that Pound does not readily conceive of a reader who is not also an aspiring writer — something that led Leavis astray when he tried to retort to How To Read ; but there is no harm , and much profit , in letting the student of the history of poetry suppose that he or she is in due course going to write poems . |
| 4 | He had studied and pondered the case , and was immersed in it ; he tried talking to both Marco and Eddie , and pursues Marco for the promise that could save Eddie 's life . |
| 5 | Stoute , who knows the family well , said : ‘ He has grown to just over 15.2 hands , which is a nice size for a racehorse , and I am hopeful that he will get further than a mile . ’ |
| 6 | He wants to go to where ? |
| 7 | ‘ Not long after he contacted me again , said he 'd moved to yet another firm and made a completely different recommendation . |
| 8 | Yet , as he disclosed yesterday , he prefers to stick to about £3,000 per commission . |
| 9 | Gazza did not even come out for the second half — he had proved all he needed to prove to any disbelievers still out there . |
| 10 | Having represented Scotland at virtually every level he seems destined to eventually reach cap status and perhaps bring Scotland 's midfield — with several other young hopeful — some extra fizz and sparkle . |
| 11 | After a few false starts a whole vocabulary and syntax that he never knew he knew begins to well up from his old-fashioned black portable . |
| 12 | Any spare cash he preferred to donate to more worthy causes . |
| 13 | This was where Jesus was going , because he knew that to take to take something over and let's face it Jesus was looking to take over take something over to fulfil something and he was hoping to fulfil Judaism to take it over , to fulfil it , he had to go to where it mattered . |
| 14 | Alright he knew he had to go to afterwards , half past three , but he could n't unwind one bit there . |
| 15 | Using the tides to his advantage , he had beaten to windward across St Austell Bay as far as Deadman Point , and to his crew of six who manned the sheets and tended the lines , it had seemed that he had some magic way with him : every time they lost the fish , he would put about and find the shoal again , so that his lads hardly had time to swallow a hunk of bread or a gill of ale from one end of the day to the other . |
| 16 | If he had gone to anywhere but scum , he would have been off-loaded by now . |
| 17 | By the age of ten he had taken to dreamily wandering around areas of Stretford and Hulme not normally reserved for the vision of one so young . |
| 18 | Fran had read all she could about Luke Calder before the interview and knew that he came from the poorest part of Glasgow and that he had got to where he was today by dint of sheer hard work and determination , but , looking at him now , she found it hard to imagine that he had come from anything but a moneyed background . |
| 19 | In the morning , Joseph led his people sixteen miles to White Bird Creek , and into the war he had tried to hard to avoid . |
| 20 | Here was the team which he had come to when it was struggling pathetically at the bottom of the First Division ; the team which he had made one of the greatest in the history of football , beaten by a fifth-rate side . |
| 21 | Then a new journey into light and noise and he had come to where he was now . |
| 22 | He had come to quite like the outfit . |
| 23 | As Harry stood there , lost in thought , the porter he had spoken to earlier appeared from the direction of the lodge , rattling a Punch of keys in his hand . |
| 24 | it 's like he 's got to just keep that little |
| 25 | He 's got to though has n't he ? |
| 26 | cos he 's got to really more than you can |
| 27 | It 's up to Terry and Rog are to decide how he 's got to safely man the job . |
| 28 | But you were confusing him because you knew , where he 's used to just sitting there and telling blah blah blah blah and |