Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | On March 7 , the Group of 12 ( a newly formed coalition of the country 's main opposition parties , ranging from communists to conservatives ) issued a joint statement calling upon the populace to rise up against Avril and force him to hand over power to an interim civilian administration as the first step towards the holding of free elections . |
| 2 | cos he goes about quarter to twelve |
| 3 | While he laughs off comparisons to Lawrence of Arabia , he admits that ‘ to spend 10 years getting the film made must mean it corresponds to something deep inside ’ . |
| 4 | He devoted much thought to the shape of the future church . |
| 5 | Although he is appointed by the council who pay his salary , he has nevertheless duties to the public to see that their rights are protected . |
| 6 | He favours instead proximity to the village , not only for the improvement of the villagers , but because it will remove for the proprietor ‘ that unpleasant feeling of cheerless solitude ’ . |
| 7 | How dare he whip up strangers to hostility because I did n't wear clothes clearly indicating my sex — what was it to them whether I was a woman or a man ? |
| 8 | " So many clients have so much money to burn , " explained a manager of another dealing firm , as he handed round condoms to some six trainee dealers on his floor , " blow them up big " He said . |
| 9 | This stimulated Morgan into mounting a much wider-ranging inquiry in the course of which , with the assistance of the American Department of Indian Affairs and other official bodies , he sent out questionnaires to government officials and missionaries in many different parts of the world seeking further information on kinship terminologies . |
| 10 | His hatred for those who crossed him having once shared the bonds of mutual loyalty was unbounded , but equally he never forgot old services performed , and , apart from the ‘ Night of the Long Knives ’ in June 1934 , he did not resort to purges within the Party . |
| 11 | He had further abrasions to his forehead . |
| 12 | Now that he had only hunters to school and exercise and Mrs Geary ( who loved the lads ) to feed him well , no question about his weight , life was kind and easier ; but he was the last to admit it and showed sympathy to nobody , least of all to Nicandra . |
| 13 | However , according to Reid ( 1990 ) 91 Cr App R 213 ( CA ) the accused is , it seems , guilty of reckless manslaughter if he does not advert to a risk which ought to have been taken seriously and someone dies . |
| 14 | The definition of " new tenant or occupier " is discussed in Chief Constable of Tayside v. Angus District Licensing Board , 1980 S.L.T. ( Sh.Ct. ) 31 where it is held that " new " refers to both tenant and occupier and that at 32 " we are dealing with the removal of the licensee , when he yields up possession to a new tenant or a new occupier/occupant " . |