Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wondered if Mrs Gray wanted to be fair to her husband and to avoid mentioning him in a role which showed him having to report to HQ , as it were ; or whether she wanted to be fair to Canon Wheeler , about whom , her tone suggested , she might share her husband 's opinion . |
| 2 | Contemporaries remember him coming scowling to school after what had clearly been rows with his patron . |
| 3 | Our concern to hold him into God 's truth will be greater than our concern for him to become adjusted to society . |
| 4 | Since for most of his reign he avoided going to war , he hardly deserves the reputation for belligerence which contemporaries conferred on him . |
| 5 | NORMAN Waller was cleared of murder this week after he admitted stabbing to death a man he believed was trying to break into his neighbour 's car . |
| 6 | If he tried to return to Earth in defiance of his oath he strongly suspected that he might never be allowed to reach the homeworld … |
| 7 | Unless you count the occasion in Turkey when he tried to go to bed with a prostitute while suffering from the pox . |
| 8 | Sergeant Alan King died after being stabbed repeatedly by Vernage as he tried to crawl to safety . |
| 9 | in Greek mythology , Bellerophon 's winged horse , on which he tried to fly to heaven . |
| 10 | But his drug-policy staff has been cut , and the budget request he has sent to Congress looks just like the one sent by George Bush . |
| 11 | Some pay an additional disturbance payment to compensate the expatriate when he has to readjust to life in Britain on his return . |
| 12 | And he has written to Home Secretary Michael Howard demanding to know if plans for the category B inmate jail will be put on ice for a second time . |
| 13 | He has written to Home Secretary , Michael Howard , demanding to know if plans for the category B inmate jail will be put on ice for a second time . |
| 14 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that the emphasis that he has given to housing , bearing in mind the homeless problem , and to Scottish Enterprise , will be valuable in terms of employment ? |
| 15 | The additional money that he has given to health and school building and repairs will also be welcomed by the people of Scotland . |
| 16 | Although the beef market is now in a better position , does not the hon. Gentleman realise the damage that he has done to beef consumption and to our farmers in the past year by constantly highlighting that issue on radio and television ? |
| 17 | He has to turn to poetry . |
| 18 | This present body of work is the closest that he has come to understanding what it is that attracts him to travel . |
| 19 | This present body of work is the closest that he has come to understanding what it is that attracts him to travel . |
| 20 | I ask whether with the above words he has entrusted to Pamphilus that after his death he should make over a hundred to the sons of the deceased . |
| 21 | The hon. Gentleman should be ashamed of the lip service that he has paid to employment by continuing to outline such policies . |
| 22 | In the past two weeks he has had to scrummage against Scotland 's World Cup looseheads , David Sole and David Milne : ‘ They certainly got the better of me but I like to think that I am learning all the time and that that will lead to my improvement ’ . |
| 23 | Agnew knows that he has to prove to manager Kenny Dalglish not only that he can make a comeback but also that he can do his stuff at the highest level . |
| 24 | As Chief Whip he has managed to paper over the cracks in the back benches and maintain a united front behind the Prime Minister . |
| 25 | And now there was a chap on the phone last night he want to go to Valley and I was trying to tell the bloke who who he between doing pickets and trying to keep count and er . |
| 26 | In other words he needs to go to launderette . |
| 27 | In concluding he promised to go to prison rather than pay his fine . |
| 28 | He wants to go to university , turns up to listen to Einstein , studies hard ; but his father wo n't have it , and at the age of 14 he becomes a soap boy in a barber 's and then a presser in a garment shop . |
| 29 | Cos that 's what no leave him , I think he wants to go to sleep . |
| 30 | So I told him things I 'd never told anyone — how much I resented Dad for what he 'd done to Mum , and how Mum had suffered , how painful the whole thing had been , though I was only now beginning to feel it . |