Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | A woman police constable who reported him has since had to be transferred ‘ after being cold-shouldered ’ . |
| 2 | They brought me down that day from Edinburgh , bundled me into a transit van with seats but no windows , handcuffed to a big quiet London lad who would n't talk to me at all and did n't even say much to the other two cops in the back of the transit just sat staring ahead and we seemed to drive all night just stopping once at some service station on the Ml , took a while to arrange everything , then they came in with a selection of cans of soft drinks and sandwiches and pasties and pork pies and chocolate and we all sat there munching then they asked me did I need the toilet and I said yes and they opened the door and it was straight over the grass into the gents ' toilets , two cops guarding the door and some men , looked like truckers , standing watching me , waiting for their turn after I 'd had my private visit ; only wanted a pee but I could n't do it even though the big lad was n't actually watching just having him standing there handcuffed to me was enough so they checked the stalls and then took the cuffs off me and I had to leave the door open a crack while I went , then back out and I see the other cop cars Christ a Range Rover and a Senator too I 'm a fucking VIP , then it 's into the van and on with the journey to London where the questioning starts ; they 're concentrating on Sir Rufus 's murder , for now , because they found a card a fucking business card in the woods near the burned cottage ; not mine that would have been too obvious but a card from a guy I know on Jane 's Defence Weekly with some scribbled notes on the back : |
| 3 | Gwendolen sitting next to him did not object to his silence . |
| 4 | This snappily dressed , half-smiling man with something of the looks of the young Cary Grant about him did not approximate to his vision of a psychiatrist . |
| 5 | But whoever killed him did n't need to be especially fit with a weapon like that in their hand . ’ |
| 6 | She 's just , that 's just pulling their mind you I did say to her the last straw was Christmas day , can you imagine like , I mean me and him did n't have to , I did n't have to stay in and cook dinner , I done it cos she was there we 'd all be together , she did n't fucking come home . |
| 7 | ‘ I would n't say that ; he 's a man with unusual views on a lot of things but he 's no fool ; he goes round lecturing to Old Cornwall Societies , Women 's Institutes and that sort of thing . ’ |
| 8 | He goes on to refer to legislation in 1980 in West Germany and in 1982 in Italy whereby post-operative transsexuals are deemed to belong to their chosen sex and have the rights and duties of that sex . |
| 9 | He goes on to say to Maria that |
| 10 | He goes off to report to the sergeant . |
| 11 | so he sits there erm , and you know you involve in our conversation , but he sits there talking to her and then he sort of feels out of it and then he storms off |
| 12 | He became increasingly attached to an almost Greek sense of the hero , but recast in a mould similar to Nietzsche 's superman . |
| 13 | As he got up to go to the microphone , I asked him what he was going to sing . |
| 14 | Furious , he got up to complain to his neighbour , only to discover that it was his own dog which he had accidently shut outside before going to bed . |
| 15 | He got out to speak to them and an argument started which led to a fight . |
| 16 | Again he tried unsuccessfully to struggle to his feet , but failed . |
| 17 | At first he tried halfheartedly to appeal to me not to send the story to England for ‘ the sake of the side ’ . |
| 18 | Disappointed by her dull response , he moved away to talk to Muriella . |
| 19 | Algernon Peckham glanced at him , and there was a momentary pause before he moved on to speak to James Pegg . |
| 20 | Her adopted father , Arthur Harrison , also of North Green , Staindrop , has been keeping a vigil for the daughter he has barely spoken to since she was 17 . |
| 21 | If a statement of affairs has been lodged , the official receiver must also send a summary of it together with his observations on it unless he has previously reported to them and nothing material can be added , but if the lodging of a statement of affairs has been dispensed with , the official receiver must give creditors a summary of the bankrupt 's affairs ( amplified , modified or explained as he thinks fit ) ( rr 6.75 and 6.76 ) . |
| 22 | ‘ He has finally come to terms with being a United player . ’ |
| 23 | It offered a rare relief from what he has otherwise found to be an awkward campaign . |
| 24 | Well it 's just the architect She said , Well it does n't matter , if he has n't said to you . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , he has n't confessed to any new murders . |
| 26 | He has n't spoken to me except in anger for nine years ! ’ |
| 27 | He has n't talked to me since , but Violet tells me she has explained to him that ‘ some people are funny about dogs ’ . |
| 28 | We 'll take him off the scheme because he has n't replied to any of our correspondence . |
| 29 | He has n't got to and all that now has he ? |
| 30 | I 'm so thankful he has n't come to any harm . |