Example sentences of "he [to-vb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , shortly after the Electricity Act received the royal assent , in September 1947 , Attlee appointed Gaitskell as Minister in his place , and it therefore fell to him to carry through the Government 's work of nationalisation by completing the appointments to the Boards and the working out of the new relationship of Ministry and BEA . |
| 2 | Anything that would pay enough to live and allow him to remain on the headland to carry on the campaign . |
| 3 | There was good reason for him to remain at the helm now , too : the wind was freshening and veering , so that it was coming close to dead astern . |
| 4 | Gambling on the dying man being able to comprehend , he had ordered him to go for the destruct button , while he himself had kept Grant occupied by an exchange of fire . |
| 5 | Hence the perception that , however hard he tries — and it was brave of him to go to the wall at all — Mr Clinton will always carry this particular cross , and that his relations with the armed services will always be shaped by it . |
| 6 | Though he reassured him about the boy 's future , his calling Isaac his ‘ only son ’ when he commands him to go to the land of Moriah might well suggest those assurances were empty and meant nothing . |
| 7 | I asked him to go to the shed and take all my kites away and burn them , which he duly did , in a hollow now called Kite Pyre Dell . |
| 8 | Also , unlike others who had been brought up in more cultured surroundings , it was a rarity for him to go to the theatre and even more of a rarity to go to other forms of public entertainments , including the cinema . |
| 9 | Oh I asked him to go to the insurance company and find out whether I 'm covered with them for having my aerial replaced and I wrote a letter asking if he could be empowered to sign the claim form for me |
| 10 | He is engaged in conversation by McKendrick , another participant in the Colloquium , but does not reveal to him that what attracts him to the conference is the opportunity it affords him to go to the World Cup qualifying match between England and Czechoslovakia ( scene one ) . |
| 11 | They got him angry / They got him to go to the party ) . |
| 12 | He must be able to stamp his authority not only on his team but on the peloton as a whole , directing the whole tenor of the race before it is time for him to go to the front and win . |
| 13 | Thus suppose , to take a less bloodthirsty example , that Pooh 's desire for honey makes his belief that there 's some in the cupboard cause him to go to the cupboard to get it . |
| 14 | I urge him to go to the railway stations each weekend and to get the newspapers that are handed out free of charge . |
| 15 | The following morning he went to Dawson 's house , thereby missing a telephone call from the King 's private secretary asking him to go to the Palace before luncheon ( it is not clear why the message was not passed on ) . |
| 16 | I even tried to get him to go to the studio . |
| 17 | This allowed him to go on the offensive , including on issues that Dr Cunningham devoutly wished would evaporate , like that cause célèbre . |
| 18 | ‘ You do n't want him to go into the theatre with you ? |
| 19 | The repetitive purr of the telephone broke into the fragile atmosphere , and Shelley walked past Miguel without looking at him to go into the villa . |
| 20 | It wants him to go beyond the landscaping of degraded industrial sites as a means of attracting new investment , to embrace the concept of ‘ sustainable development ’ which was backed by the UK government at the recent Earth Summit . |
| 21 | The most muttered-against official is the director of campaigning , John Lacy , though no one in the organisation expects him to go before the election . |
| 22 | Jeremy Guscott snatched his 15th try in 24 internationals , Dewi Morris pounced behind the Springbok scrum for his fifth in 11 when Garth Wright 's put-in squirted out too quickly and Carling wrapped it up when two Springboks panicked under an Andrew bomb , allowing him to fall on the ball . |
| 23 | He threw himself at me and I jumped to one side , leaving him to fall on the deck . |
| 24 | Having looked at the growing success of the Editing for Industry awards and noted the fact that Alan Peaford was due to step down after a three-year stint in the chair , I decided to ask him to continue in the post for my year of office . |
| 25 | But Thomson was soon back in favour again , receiving instructions on the management of the impending war with Spain in the Caribbean from the Protector , who told him to liaise with the fleet commanders ( 1654 ) , and joining an enlarged trade committee ( 1655 ) . |
| 26 | After that , D'Arcy called Dave Forbes in London to put him briefly in the picture and to tell him to liaise with the ship and cargo insurers at Lloyd 's . |
| 27 | He pulled the door to behind him — he was reasonably certain there was nothing for him to see in the engine-room anyway — and stooped to examine the three dead men . |
| 28 | Someone checked the car through the closed-circuit monitor and the gates opened , allowing him to drive into the courtyard . |
| 29 | Paragraph 8. 10 ( c ) of the PAC 's 1981 report , The Role of the Comptroller and Auditor General , stated that the present arrangements for the financial audit of nationalized industries should continue but that the C & AG should have access to the books and records of these bodies in order to enable him to report to the House of Commons ( paragraph 4.16 — 4.19 ) . |
| 30 | Before he left , the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline asked him to report on the treatment of convicts in Van Dieman 's Land . |