Example sentences of "he [verb] [to-vb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | William Walker , an official from the State Department , remembered seeing him rush to catch a flight to Central America , having just got off a flight from Europe , unkempt , a flight-bag over his shoulder . |
| 2 | The clothes he wore , the cut of his hair , even the subtly elegant watch on his wrist , everything about him seemed to indicate a man who had been brought up to take wealth for granted . |
| 3 | ‘ Stories about him having to get a taxi home are complete nonsense , ’ Berlin said . |
| 4 | will prevent him having to consider a mass of trivial complaints where it is unlikely that criminal charges would ever be brought but there has been some concern that the chief officer of police is given a discretion whether or not to refer complaints which disclose criminal conduct to the D.P.P. , although this decision is of course supervised . |
| 5 | If the Queen judged that another party leader could form a government with majority support ( say , Mr Kinnock with the support of the Liberal Democrats ) , she would be entitled to ask him to attempt to form a government . |
| 6 | It was n't enough for him to have to learn a series of speeches that no one else was expected to begin to comprehend , but he was also deputed to be Dame Edith 's guardian angel . |
| 7 | It was , after all , the first letter and did n't things like how you addressed him have to climb a kind of ladder ? |
| 8 | Yet when he made to take a line of stones he had surrounded from the board , the boy placed his hand over Tuan 's , stopping him , lifting his hand so that he might study the position , his face creased into a frown , as if trying to take in what he had done wrong . |
| 9 | But I said I knew you and did he want to leave a message . |
| 10 | Some time afterwards he chanced to see a hobby-horse being ridden along a nearby road , and was struck with the notion of making one for himself . |
| 11 | The following night the moon would be full and he planned to take a force of eighteen jeeps directly on to the airfield in two columns and shoot up anything they found . |
| 12 | Waldegrave said that the need to promote the public understanding of science would be addressed in the forthcoming White Paper ( policy document ) on science and technology and that he planned to launch a campaign to ‘ evangelize ’ science . |
| 13 | After his comeback as a serious musician , he planned to launch a book on the astonished and admiring world . |
| 14 | Shen had returned from exile in the USA in August and had been arrested on Sept. 1 as he planned to launch a Beijing office of the US-based Democracy for China Fund [ see p. 39095 ] . |
| 15 | He said he planned to write a book about the 1989 protests and that he had no plans to go overseas , as several other released political prisoners have done . |
| 16 | He planned to steal a car — although he could not drive — and to strap a knife to his body before crashing the vehicle . |
| 17 | That same month , bowing to pressure , he agreed to appoint a Minister for the Coordination of Defence . |
| 18 | The defendant in Breed v. Cluett ( 1970 D.C. ) entered a contract whereby he agreed to sell a bungalow . |
| 19 | He agreed to send a representative , General Catroux , to negotiate with the giraudists . |
| 20 | Liberal Democrat MP Simon Hughes on the Lamont affair WHEN he goes to see a Shakespeare play he wants to know what happens at the end . |
| 21 | As a gesture of goodwill , it should be suggested to the purchaser that he offers to sign a confidentiality undertaking in favour of the vendors covering such information . |
| 22 | He fought to control a sense of panic and reminded himself that he was a priest , a man ordained , sworn to God . |
| 23 | He says that he expected to pay a lot more . |
| 24 | He expected to find a drain . |
| 25 | While still working on the second volume of the Society 's guidebook , at a meeting of the Zoological Society on 16 June 1830 , he applied to undertake a series of drawings of the parrot collection . |
| 26 | Gabriel obeyed at once , and while riding along was thinking so hard about the shooting that in the darkness he failed to notice a man walking along the road to Casterbridge . |
| 27 | The Finnish official made one of several peculiar decisions when he failed to order a retake . |
| 28 | Lennie Lawrence , Middlesbrough 's manager , confirmed his interest at the weekend , saying he was prepared to take the matter to a transfer tribunal if he failed to agree a fee with Keegan . |
| 29 | In doing so , he failed to see a pothole in the driveway , fell off and was injured . |
| 30 | His son was educated at Winchester and Magdalene College , Cambridge , where he failed to take a degree , and preferred fast cars and horse-racing to the solitude of the bush . |