Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Reynolds said he planned to return to indoor competition in the next couple of months and hoped to compete in both the world indoor and outdoor championships . |
| 2 | He agreed to talk to I Lawrie regarding existing plans . |
| 3 | The short answer to this contention on behalf of the appellant is that the money in the wallet which he appropriated belonged to another , to Mr. Occhi . |
| 4 | He failed to respond to increased doses of cyclosporin , up to 150 mg twice a day . |
| 5 | Afterwards , oesophagoscopy was repeated twice as he failed to respond to conservative management . |
| 6 | Papa did n't know what to do , and then he got talking to some of his cronies , and he decided on a Grand Scheme . |
| 7 | While an angry woman in a cardigan sadly toasted herself a crumpet by the jet of a gas f ; re , he tried to shift to another topic . |
| 8 | A woman once wrote to me , desperately upset , because , while going through her dead husband 's effects , she 'd found love letters he 'd written to another woman . |
| 9 | and what he 'd done to this pillow was no one 's business . |
| 10 | Once or twice he 'd gone to great lengths to deceive me but , more often , he 'd taken little trouble to cover his tracks . |
| 11 | Once again she felt a rush of warmth for Josh ; clearly he 'd gone to some lengths to cover up for her , and for that she 'd be eternally grateful . |
| 12 | Police charged Lashley after he 'd confessed to fellow inmates in prison while he was serving 18 years for rape . |
| 13 | He 'd returned to flying duties gradually , working as an instructor , not directly involved in any action . |
| 14 | The best years of his mind he 'd sacrificed to this godforsaken place and precious little did he have to show for it . |
| 15 | He seemed resigned to this twist of fate that the first calf to be born into his stable for two years had been brought to life before it was ready , before the winter was even through . |
| 16 | ‘ That was enlightening , ’ said Betty crossly as he turned to speak to another farmer . |
| 17 | Paul Bedworth , 19 , allegedly found a way to pay for the thousands of hours he spent connected to transatlantic computer networks . |
| 18 | As he did so , still lying there with his legs up on the chair he 'd fallen over , he started to over-balance to one side , towards Fergus . |
| 19 | Erm and he started coming to this centre he he came to the centre once or twice with my other brother for some advice I think , welfare right advice . |
| 20 | he here 's a Pat Boone record or something and all of a sudden he started dancing to all this and the old black bloke comes in and says oh my life , he could n't get any of the old blokes . |
| 21 | On Jan. 10 Lewandowski told a Sejm committee assessing his candidacy for the post of Minister of Ownership Transformations that the performance of the share offer indicated that a different approach to privatization was needed , and he said that he favoured distributing to all Polish citizens free vouchers to be exchanged for shares . |
| 22 | so erm , he went to speak to one of the Director 's secretary , to go and buy all the cups , I had to provide the sugar |
| 23 | And er he went to him so he went to speak to this woman about the thing and she was member of the Co-op see . |
| 24 | But he did confess to one problem — when the washing goes out , the sundial has to be moved . |
| 25 | ‘ He did write to that American professor that Boz ‘ disappears and presently emerges from a bathing machine , and may be seen — a kind of salmon-coloured porpoise splashing about in the ocean ’ . ’ |
| 26 | He preferred walking to other forms of locomotion , and De Quincey calculated that Wordsworth must have walked between 175,000 and 180,000 miles in his lifetime . |
| 27 | Apparently Gagarin said that when he looked out of the right window of his spacecraft and glimpsed the earth for the first time , he had an experience or sense of — and then he used a word which the interpreter did not know the meaning of , so he had to go to another table and ask another interpreter to help . |
| 28 | By the end of the year he had converted to twin-engined fighters , joining 252 Squadron to fly Blenheim IVFs and Beaufighters . |
| 29 | When an army investigator went to interview Ronald Haeberle , the army photographer who had been with Charlie Company , Haeberle produced some horrific colour slides of the killings and said that he had included some of them in an illustrated talk about the war he had given to various clubs , teachers ' associations and youth groups . |
| 30 | Yes , that was the card he had given to old Jackdaw to post but he really did n't want all this aggravation , he was happy the way he was . |