Example sentences of "he [verb] [prep] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost got him disbarred from entry to the Navy . |
| 2 | ‘ Why are you so defensive about that side of your life ? ’ she cut in , a perverse urge to torment him rising in response to the warning note in his voice and the rejection hardening his face . |
| 3 | On my way back to Anastasia , I catch sight of a tree-creeper and watch him flit from tree to tree , scurrying mouse-like up their trunks as though nothing else had ever happened here . |
| 4 | PACKIE BONNER is angry that Glasgow Celtic boss Liam Brady would not let him go on loan to Premier Division club Middlesbrough . |
| 5 | The perusal of it swelled his heart with joy ; he found he had to read it twice , and the pleasure of its proclamation left him flushed from top to toe . |
| 6 | He attached himself to the Sussex magnate Thomas Sackville , then Lord Buckhurst and later lord treasurer and first Earl of Dorset [ q.v. ] , who in 1594 recommended him to act as deputy to John Parker in a Chancery post as ‘ of honest sort and behaviour , of such good knowledge and skill for the discharge of such a place , and withall having so good means and ability to live ’ . |
| 7 | He lived from hand to mouth making instant resolves every time he opened his mail . |
| 8 | A publisher had asked him to explain , some quarter of a century after the event , how he passed from scepticism to religious belief . |
| 9 | He became enormously excited and , as the rest of the party started back towards us with a huge mound of lavatory paper balanced on the ravioli , he hopped from foot to foot , clutching my arm . |
| 10 | His skeletal body clothed in dirty rags looked grotesque as he hopped from foot to foot , to the mocking laughter of the tinkers . |
| 11 | ‘ This is immensely interesting , ’ he murmurs from time to time . |
| 12 | Then he rode in triumph to the Tsar . |
| 13 | Before kiln operator Steve Kelly died at 55 , he asked for help to be given to the team of Macmillan nurses who cared for him in his last months . |
| 14 | ROBERT DUNLOP made it a treble when he led from start to finish to take the second 250cc race . |
| 15 | TOM McKean completed a wonderful weekend for Scottish athletics when he led from gun to tape to take the 800 metres crown . |
| 16 | Mr Overbye describes the changes in theory and observation accurately , engagingly and enthusiastically , though his prose is occasionally Doppler-shifted towards the purple as he dashes from subject to subject . |
| 17 | It is not surprising that he found in addition to writing about her , he had to sing about her , too . |
| 18 | And as he moved from boyhood to early youth , tales of heroism and daring-do accumulated , luring him by their unreal charms . |
| 19 | He moved from parish to parish , almost always because of the complaints of the affronted orthodox ; far from making compromises , he founded the Guild of St Matthew , one of the earliest focuses of Christian Socialism . |
| 20 | He moved from job to job , for a period boxing in a fairground booth and also trying his hand at acting , whilst also posing for Minton in his studio in return for ten shillings a week . |
| 21 | Lights flared as he moved from room to room , obviously checking the rest of the house . |
| 22 | I assure my hon. Friend that we look forward to receiving any further written representations that he has in addition to the cogent case that he has put before the House today . |
| 23 | He stands in contrast to those prelates of his day , often trained in theology , who shunned close involvement in secular government and even openly opposed royal policies . |
| 24 | The aim of the exhibition is to show the quality and variety of Jordaens 's work and to reassess where he stands in relation to Rubens , by whom he has always been overshadowed . |
| 25 | Phelips died ; Robert Carr , Earl of Somerset [ q.v. ] , was disgraced ; and in 1626 he reported on Parliament to Sir Dudley Carleton ( later Viscount Dorchester , q.v . ) . |
| 26 | It was Sir John Hawkins [ q.v. ] , writing in 1776 , who stated that John Shore devised the tuning-fork , which he used in preference to the pitch-pipe when tuning his lute . |
| 27 | He wandered from room to room without aim , and without knowing whether he was on the top floor or in the basement , ‘ just up and up and on and on and on ’ . |
| 28 | He charged from seat to seat , dodging giant feet , discarded shoes , dropped newspapers and bags . |
| 29 | Eventually he built up a collection of bells which he played in time to the tunes he would play on his harmonium . |
| 30 | He yearned for escape to a place and an audience which would appreciate his talents to the full . |