Example sentences of "he [vb past] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will the Minister widen his reply to include funding of the national companies , and in particular will he explain the remarks that he made to the Royal Society of Arts last week , when he speculated on the Government funding the national companies directly ? |
| 2 | Perhaps he ought to remember those days and get around to living up to the promise he made to the last Tory conference . |
| 3 | Mr Larkin is haunted by memories of a visit he made to the secluded woods at along with Marie Pettitt , Gary 's mother . |
| 4 | Perhaps the Home Secretary will get up to respond on the second point that he made to the Conservative party conference . |
| 5 | Thereafter Louis the German was the senior member of the family : some seventeen years older than his half-brother Charles , he lived to the ripe age of seventy . |
| 6 | When he succeeded to the English throne in 1272 Edward I was already in his thirties and a man of wide experience . |
| 7 | Instead of employing the skills for which he is well paid , he passed to an offside Mo Johnston . |
| 8 | Becker was back in his boom-boom form less than 24 hours after surviving a five-set first-round match as he cruised to a 6-2 , 6-2 , 6-4 win over Jakob Hlasek , of Switzerland , in one hour and 47 minutes . |
| 9 | Becker was back in his boom-boom form less than 24 hours after surviving a five-set first-round match as he cruised to a 6-2 , 6-2 , 6-4 win over Jakob Hlasek , of Switzerland , in one hour and 47 minutes . |
| 10 | Laurence McGeown 's wide runner satisfied selectors last week at the Dublin track when he cruised to a facile seven lengths victory , 30.61 seconds , over the Anglo-Irish International 503 metres distance . |
| 11 | Southern Memories won in the style of a well handicapped horse as he cruised to a three-length win from Special One at Windsor last week . |
| 12 | He agreed to a televised debate , hosted by Dan Rather , with Cameron Nielson Sr. Farnham was still feisty on the show , but Cameron Nielson , looking younger now than his son , was as skilled as a great matador , and finally evened the score with his former tormentor , driving him to tearful contrition . |
| 13 | He agreed to an impromptu reading in the evening only to find later that he would not be paid for it . |
| 14 | He was about the same height as his wife but he looked stooped now , and he was wearing a dressing-gown ; normally he was the epitome of tweedy country-squiredom , an archetypal laird in three-piece suit , clumpy shoes , checked shirt and cap ; he resorted to a beaten-up , much reproofed Barbour when the weather turned particularly foul . |
| 15 | Increasingly he resorted to the crudest measurements of progress and methods of achieving it . |
| 16 | So he resorted to an old favourite , which was to imagine himself as a First World War fighter ace engaged in an aerial duel with an enemy pilot . |
| 17 | ‘ There 's a war on now and all of you are in enemy territory , ’ he announced to a general assembly . |
| 18 | Subsequently , Gorbachev left Ryzhkov looking even more embattled when he announced to the Supreme Soviet that he personally preferred Shatalin 's programme . |
| 19 | So in July he announced to the American public : " we intend to honour our commitments " ( to West Germany and West Berlin ) and called for a build-up of American forces . |
| 20 | He led to the final 250 metres , before falling back to last . |
| 21 | He clung to the traditional view , stating that the problem was scientifically indeterminate . |
| 22 | As he clung to the bloodied body of his mother lying on Wimbledon Common , he cried : ‘ Mummy , get up , get up . ’ |
| 23 | But it was a good scene and , by the time he got to the Hooded Owl speech , he was back on course . |
| 24 | Before he got to the real problem . |
| 25 | But he got to the final table of the championship again this year . |
| 26 | He sank into the waiting limo unshaven , crumpled , white-faced , nervous , shattered and by the time he got to the posh Beverly Hills Hotel , in need of the complimentary bottle of Scotch a thoughtful management had left in his room . |
| 27 | Just as he got to the last one I said , by the way , I had one of those . |
| 28 | ‘ And when he got to the last slide , ’ Channell recalled , ‘ he suddenly became so powerfully emotive it was just like his whole spirit exploded . |
| 29 | When he got to the High Street , he saw Hasan and Aziz walking up to the Common . |
| 30 | By the time he got to the oldest , a tiresome socialite friend of his mother 's , he started : ‘ I do n't think much … . ’ |