Example sentences of "he [vb past] [to-vb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made to shine the torch into her face , but she pushed his hand down . |
| 2 | As he made to leave the chamber , Deems said , ‘ If you perceive that the Emperor does not trust you , why continue faithful ? ’ |
| 3 | He made to close the door . |
| 4 | Author of The Road to Serfdom , published — impossibly ill-timed — on the eve of Labour 's great victory in 1945 , he lived to see the crumbling of communism ; the destruction , as no doubt he saw it , of collectivism 's inner citadel . |
| 5 | Deteriorating eyesight compelled him to give up painting in 1975 , but he lived to see the beginning of a major revival of his reputation . |
| 6 | He lived to tell the tale . |
| 7 | I replied to him that if he cared to submit the List to any representative group of Jews , he would hear their ‘ no ’ from Downing Street to Golders Green . |
| 8 | Outside in London , if he cared to leave the flat , he would have found an atmosphere , an edge , that any man of twenty-five with money in his pocket and an afternoon like that behind him should have delighted in . |
| 9 | Cover up … how he planned to burn the evidence . |
| 10 | General Nocenzi had offered his office for the young Prince 's use , and it was there , at the very top of the vast , three-hundred-level fortress , that he planned to meet the boy . |
| 11 | The answer is that they pursued the site owner monthly for three years until he agreed to sell the plot , seconds away from Hampstead Heath , then designed a five-bedroom house with 40ft outdoor pool and had it built . |
| 12 | No one really wants to know about him , and he knows why he agreed to do the film , why on the last day of shooting he dismissed it as a ‘ stinker ’ , what he thinks of it now . |
| 13 | I do n't honestly know why he agreed to do the film , except that all he wanted was a fifteen-minute death scene . |
| 14 | I told him stealing a car would n't solve anything and he agreed to park the car . |
| 15 | " For God 's sake ! " whispered Mr Plant , and without further argument he agreed to convey the tin bath from Swines ' yard to the rectory garden on the morning of Easter Saturday . |
| 16 | And who was it who said that when he agreed to play the Devil in the Witches of Eastwick , it was because he had been practising for the role all his life ? |
| 17 | He fought to put the pound into the ERM two years ago , defeating ex-Premier Mrs Thatcher over the issue . |
| 18 | The rain struck him across the face like a whiplash as he fought to keep the bike upright and driving for the protection of the leeward bank . |
| 19 | When he opened his eyes , the taste of blood sharp in his mouth , he expected to see the assassin disappearing into the shadows of the park , but the bizarre Mr Pie was standing at the kerb looking back at him . |
| 20 | Mr Wiseman said he expected to announce the name shortly . |
| 21 | It was not the moment she would have chosen , but the determined glint in Silas 's eye told her he expected to hear the truth . |
| 22 | He expected to get the money back after the weekend . |
| 23 | When he finally reached Marseilles , he expected to find the fleet of over a hundred ships which he had commissioned in advance . |
| 24 | He applied to join the OTC as a trainee infantry officer in the autumn of 1922 , a year before the date when he proposed to begin undergraduate studies . |
| 25 | Harold Macmillan , at the time of the 1962 party conference at Llandudno , when he applied to join the Community , described it as ’ perhaps the most fateful and forward-looking policy decision in our peacetime history . ’ |
| 26 | He asked to see the officer involved in the investigation of the earlier charge . |
| 27 | He asked to see the horse and they took him to the stable . |
| 28 | He failed to control the ball when intercepting a pass from Chris Malkin 30 yards from goal and Pat Nevin nipped in and slipped away to guide a shot inside goalkeeper Kevin Poole and the near post . |
| 29 | With the departure of Schmidt and Herbert Wehner from the political scene in 1983 , Brandt , the party chairman , was once again the leading force in the SPD but he failed to control the left . |
| 30 | He failed to realize the difference and his blank expression made her smile . |