Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he agreed not to complain about her market-minded vision of the Community and she not to bully him about France 's half-in , half-out position in NATO . |
| 2 | He goes on to refer to legislation in 1980 in West Germany and in 1982 in Italy whereby post-operative transsexuals are deemed to belong to their chosen sex and have the rights and duties of that sex . |
| 3 | He goes on to talk about ( a ) fly-fishing ( b ) car repair bills ( c ) rugger , with Paul while his hand is up Kate . |
| 4 | He goes on to say to Maria that |
| 5 | He goes on to say of course federal laws were not being obeyed in the confederacy because they 'd rejected the entire panoply of federal laws and Lincoln goes on to point out must they these laws and the confederacy be allowed to state the question more directly , are all the laws but one to go unexecuted and the government itself to go to pieces less that one be violated . |
| 6 | He goes on to speak of rows of tenters along the side of the hill , in which ‘ the cloth is stretched in the process of making ’ . |
| 7 | He goes on to speak of the hardships he endured , the thirst , the hard work the opposition , the homelessness , the abuse , and concludes ‘ we have become , and still are , the refuse of the world , the offscourings of everything ( 1 Cor. 4:8–13 ) . |
| 8 | And he goes on to reveal in the letter that he had just taken a day off ‘ work ’ to watch a Tennessee high school football game with Ginger Alden , the 20-year-old Tennessee beauty queen who bore a startling resemblance to his mother and whom he called ‘ little Gladys ’ . |
| 9 | He goes off to report to the sergeant . |
| 10 | Their father sometimes baths them , often puts them to bed , irons , sews on his buttons and makes cakes , but as far as the kids are concerned , the main thing about Daddy is that he goes off to work in that magical place known as The Office . |
| 11 | He wants John Major to read the Peyrefitte document before he goes in to bat at Maastricht . |
| 12 | As he got up to go to the microphone , I asked him what he was going to sing . |
| 13 | Furious , he got up to complain to his neighbour , only to discover that it was his own dog which he had accidently shut outside before going to bed . |
| 14 | Each time that he got up to speak at a meeting , they would chant the lines in unison with him — even correcting his lapses of memory — until the predicted riot broke out . |
| 15 | He got up to walk down the hill in the golden light . |
| 16 | He got down to work at once and even found another couple , both teachers , who wanted to ‘ settle up ’ in Church . |
| 17 | He got out to speak to them and an argument started which led to a fight . |
| 18 | One hour later I had recovered consciousness , was lying drugged and bloodless in my bed , and my father had gone out with the shotgun he owned then to look for Old Saul . |
| 19 | He tried not to think about the time , six months ahead , when his grant would finish and he would need to find work . |
| 20 | Commander Abigail did n't even like the area : it caused him shame and guilt to consider it , he tried not to think about it . |
| 21 | He tried not to think of the shock his sister had expressed so strongly when he had told her of his intentions . |
| 22 | He tried not to think of that other night , more than five years ago , when he and Ebenezer had walked this same path , on their way — or so they thought — to release Izzy Kleiber . |
| 23 | These days he tried not to think of his son too much . |
| 24 | He tried not to stare at her . |
| 25 | He tried not to look at the screens . |
| 26 | ‘ A Mr Phillips , a Mr Cuthbertson , a Mr — ’ he tried desperately to think of a name ‘ — Taylerson . |
| 27 | Again he tried unsuccessfully to struggle to his feet , but failed . |
| 28 | After the South African War , he tried unsuccessfully to stand for the South African parliament before returning home to marry Lady Mary Douglas Hamilton . |
| 29 | He tried now to think with savage pleasure of the dismay likely to afflict his mother , once her female companions heard of it . |
| 30 | He tried fitfully to proceed with a short prose book on the nature of culture which he had been contemplating for some time , but by the end of 1942 had produced only a first draft of two chapters : this must be the source of the four essays which appeared in the New English Weekly during January and February 1943 under the title , " Notes toward a Definition of Culture " . |