Example sentences of "he [verb] [to-vb] [adv] to " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | As soon as he 'd seen Buzz safely on the plane to Nice , he planned to drive back to London , where he would telephone Annabel in New York before seeing Miranda . |
| 2 | But I cooled him out and he agreed to come along to a new rehearsal place that we 'd found , The Rose And Crown in Wandsworth . |
| 3 | Certainly , he failed to respond immediately to the gravity of the situation , and his authority slumped accordingly . |
| 4 | He failed to live up to this amiable recipe , however , and there was considerable discussion of the issue , discursive rather than purposeful , before dinner . |
| 5 | However , he knew that if he failed to live up to it they would not take his word again . |
| 6 | When he made The Dirty Dozen in 1967 , he failed to turn up to film the final scene , when he and Charles Bronson drive a huge weapons carrier across a bridge . |
| 7 | A warrant for his arrest was issued by Norwich County Court in August when he failed to turn up to his own bankruptcy hearing . |
| 8 | When he failed to get in to Merchant Taylors , Iain was sent off to boarding school in Bishop 's Stortford . |
| 9 | Frantically , in the last half of the fight , he sought to hold on to his title . |
| 10 | I er I tried to tell him He he tried to point out to me , he says , That er the average earnings you see of district inspectors you see ? |
| 11 | Not that he tried to hold on to her and not that Travis appeared to think there was anything out of the way in the two of them embracing — she gathered she had their engagement to thank for that . |
| 12 | Today , with another climber , he tried to climb down to Camp 3 , but his snow blindness forced them both to turn back . |
| 13 | He tried to think back to the first Mystery he had seen , but he could only remember ‘ Eve ’ as that unshaven , white-skinned man who had left them outside the lock-up in Greathaven and gone to find work on the boats . |
| 14 | He tried to get back to the drawing room unheard , but she was waiting . |
| 15 | He has to say then to her , ‘ I speak no comfort to you , for there is no comfort for such pain within the circles of the world ’ ( 111 , 343 ) . |
| 16 | But if it 's a lousy job and he has to go out to someone like |
| 17 | The twentieth-century preference for ‘ the colloquial ’ in poetry may well be a temporary phenomenon ; Donald Davie 's Purity of Diction in English Verse ( 1952 ) , together with his admiration for the late Augustans , represent one attempt to revive an interest in the use of a ‘ civilized ’ diction ; it is interesting that he has to go back to the age before Wordsworth . |
| 18 | In the meantime he has to go back to the town on further business , but first his horse needs shoeing , his cart needs repairing and he needs food and shelter . |
| 19 | He says he 's feeling better but he has to go back to the hospice . |
| 20 | But sophisticated Sal ( Dylan McDemott ) is n't as convinced about Toby who pursues him until he has to give in to her — er — charms . |
| 21 | He has to hang on to them with his hands . ’ |
| 22 | Yeah that was so funny , you know the bit he has to come up to the house to erm has , has to come up to the house |
| 23 | And he said he 's telling him point blank that he 's , if there 's any problems with invoices or anything , you have to deal with Andrew , he has to come back to me and deal with me direct ! |
| 24 | However , to make this feasible commercially he needs to take up to six clients , for each of whom the cost will be about £12,000 . |
| 25 | He wants to move down to a smaller house in Weybridge . |
| 26 | My mate who is driving me to the match tomorrow says he wants to go straight to the ground so I wo n't be able to get to the Adelphi . |
| 27 | He wants to go back to the base camp before we push on towards Finland . |
| 28 | He says he wants to go back to his country , but he ca n't . |
| 29 | ‘ He wants to go back to Africa to make amends and because he really liked the place , ’ a spokesman said . |
| 30 | ‘ But Nate has specifically said that you are the man he wants to fly out to Turkey . |