Example sentences of "he [verb] [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Manoeuvres to block him failed to stop the Assembly endorsing his claim to form a government , and he went ahead on 23 June 1960 . |
| 2 | Indeed , an upbringing which gave Alexander II many qualifications for the tasks which confronted him failed to conceal the fact that he was not very gifted at all . |
| 3 | Section 320 Companies Act 1985 provides that if a director of a company or its parent or holding company , or a person connected with him , enters into a contract with the company , under which the director or person connected with him agrees to purchase the company or assets ( other than cash ) of the company exceeding a certain value , then the contract must be approved in a general meeting by ordinary resolution . |
| 4 | Laud too was the King 's evil genius in persuading him to try to enforce the use in Scotland of a prayer book similar to that of the Church of England . |
| 5 | This for him came to symbolize the futility of the war , which seemed to be fought for no discernible purpose , between opponents whose essential common humanity was denied by the mass slaughter . |
| 6 | His swing was taut and abbreviated as , despite what his golfing mind was telling him ( swing slow , swing smoothly through the ball ) , the darker side of his mind made him try to steer the ball . |
| 7 | So me and him struggled to throw the thing out of the window . |
| 8 | ‘ We 'll see how far it takes you when you watch him try to clear the gatehouse the way he charged through a whole company of men that day , sword flashing right and left , trying to get to the King . |
| 9 | In one case an immigrant who was present in Britain was denied judicial review of a decision not to give him leave to enter the country because of the existence of a right of appeal which could only be exercised if the immigrant left Britain . |
| 10 | We have urged him to legislate to reverse the Greenwich judgment , so that priority is again given to children of our borough . |
| 11 | He saw Goodenache 's face react in surprise as he recognized Adam , saw him start to close the door again . |
| 12 | He jabbed the Englishman twice in the ribs again , watched him fight to control the pain , watched his victim 's eyes drift back into focus . |
| 13 | Mueller is the oldest , the most successful and probably the best known of all currently active downhillers , so the sight of him volunteering to do the donkey work in a one-horse FIS race was enough to humble me into removing my skis and following him , along with 138 other racers ! |
| 14 | This had a marvellous calming effect on him and made him determined to do the job right , especially as it was Molly 's first time . |
| 15 | Cornford 's individualism caused him to refuse to join the Officer Training Corps . |
| 16 | But it was bigoted political obstinacy , not courage , which induced him to refuse to devalue the pound . |
| 17 | It is believed he may have left home of his own choice as he did take some of his clothes , but there have been no reports of him trying to leave the country . |
| 18 | John MacGregor : If he becomes Chancellor , cartoonists will have him trying to make the deficit disappear |
| 19 | And every day Allan and Barbara and the doctors treating him have to face the dilemma of keeping alive the boy they feel would be better off dead . |
| 20 | And the team who saved him returned to meet the family again today in rather happier circumstances . |
| 21 | He made to shine the torch into her face , but she pushed his hand down . |
| 22 | As he made to leave the chamber , Deems said , ‘ If you perceive that the Emperor does not trust you , why continue faithful ? ’ |
| 23 | He made to close the door . |
| 24 | He also — as a by-product of the grant he made to repay the monks for the loss of their plate following his aid to Rufus in 1095 — provided money for the rebuilding of the cathedral choir on a greatly enlarged scale . |
| 25 | The difficulty with writing it down was that it became real to the extent of being in a book , there were two lives , the one in the book and the one which he lived to collect the details for the book one ; he could go further in his head than on the page , the words slowed him down . |
| 26 | Author of The Road to Serfdom , published — impossibly ill-timed — on the eve of Labour 's great victory in 1945 , he lived to see the crumbling of communism ; the destruction , as no doubt he saw it , of collectivism 's inner citadel . |
| 27 | He lived to see the headquarters of the organization to which he had devoted his life established in purpose-built premises on the site at the National Water Sports Centre . |
| 28 | Deteriorating eyesight compelled him to give up painting in 1975 , but he lived to see the beginning of a major revival of his reputation . |
| 29 | He lived to tell the tale . |
| 30 | I replied to him that if he cared to submit the List to any representative group of Jews , he would hear their ‘ no ’ from Downing Street to Golders Green . |