Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he plays games to while away the tedious time , thought Cadfael , he plays them by noble rules , even those he makes up as he goes . |
| 2 | He makes a bleary-eyed and disorientating living between Rungis , the wholesale fish market on the south side of Paris , and London , where he supplies fish to restaurants such as Tante Claire , Alistair Little and Suntory . |
| 3 | He owes allegiance to Geoffrey now , but does as little to aid him and as little to harm Stephen as possible , protecting both his own and his brother 's interests there , while Robert does as much for him here . |
| 4 | On top of this , he has allergies to oats and dust and is a finicky feeder . |
| 5 | It it may be because erm they believe he has access to money or money er I would say here and now that information is wrong but er there would appear to be no other motive for this attack . |
| 6 | It may be because they thought he has access to money or stores it there but that information is wrong . |
| 7 | We 'll say he wants clothes to dress-up in . |
| 8 | He says things to Lennie such as : |
| 9 | Here he mishooks Younis to Miandad in the first innings |
| 10 | He prefers chickens to people , actually . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Beside all that , ’ Robert said , ‘ I had to take him into the city , and he was n't real keen — I 'm sure he prefers Sydney to London . ’ |
| 12 | there should be no individual such that , whenever he prefers x to y , society prefers x to y irrespective of the preferences of everyone else ( no-dictatorship ) . |
| 13 | A consummate rationalist , he prefers facts to innuendo , originality to soundness ; in other words , he remains an outsider in Washington . |
| 14 | These hints had their final expression in an astonishing personal letter written by Knox to Mary on 26 October 1559 , claiming that ‘ if it be the office of a very friend to give true and faithful counsel to them whom he sees run to destruction for lack of the same , I could not be proven enemy to your Grace but rather a friend unfeigned ’ — even if moderation was never Knox 's strong suit and so , unable to keep up the quiet tone of the letter , he felt impelled to throw in a postscript : ‘ God move your heart yet in time to consider that ye fight not against man , but against the eternal God , and against his Son Jesus Christ , the only Prince of the kings of the earth . ’ |
| 15 | He draws attention to Aristotle 's description , in Politics , of food gathering and distribution in Crete . |
| 16 | Grobbelaar 's recall means David James will be axed as he falls victim to Liverpool 's worst start to a season for 39 years . |
| 17 | After all he has vast European experience — he changes sterling to punts every day — and great expertise in the technicalities of the game — ‘ Two more blades of grass to the right before you take that free kick , mate . ’ |
| 18 | He invites Howard to lunch one day ( sandwiches , in the garden of a pub down by the river , at a battered green table with a hole in the middle for an umbrella ) . |
| 19 | Having declared to Roderigo his true feelings about Othello , Iago later explains why he pays tribute to virtue : personal gain . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm sorry : he says , as he sets foot to floor . |
| 21 | When Prince is the master of all he sees , when everything he touches turns to gold when he 's the supreme seducer — that 's when my admiration knows no bounds , that cool is why he TOWERS in our imagination way , way above those meagre souls who statistically and fiscally dwarf him . |
| 22 | McMurdo would like to persist with the illusion that everything he touches turns to gold , but several Scottish professionals think otherwise . |
| 23 | He does justice to Mountbatten 's considerable failings but also to his still more considerable qualities . |
| 24 | ( Scobie correctly urges this background in prefacing his comments on Leonard 's work , but fails to mention , alongside Canada 's vastness , the particular Jewish motif by which all prophets found their calling ; similarly he omits reference to Leonard 's own ‘ wilderness experience ’ , on Hydra . ) |
| 25 | ‘ What Roberts does is very good but he is n't so successful as a team manager just because he teaches riders to dirt-track . |
| 26 | He bids farewell to sorrow , hoping henceforth to unpick with patience the lock of his disease , taking his punishment , and seeking to amend his life , giving thanks , and asking for mercy . |
| 27 | As his title hints , he treats opposition to US foreign and domestic policy on campuses , in the Hollywood of Oliver Stone and Jane Fonda , and in pockets of the East Coast media as tantamount to betrayal of the nation 's core values . |
| 28 | He comes Friday to Sunday we keep him . |
| 29 | Joey 's used to dealing with difficult customers , but when he comes face to face with a gun-toting angry young man , it takes all his soothing charm to save the day . |
| 30 | Part lecture , part slide show , part comedy act , it is Miller 's take on Noakes ' life , whisking us from John 's fledgling years in Halifax , through to startling revelations about Valerie Singleton , Joy Division and Shep 's death , and finally to Majorca , where he comes face to face with his hero . |