Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , you see he agreed to contribute to a suitable replacement upon terms that we agreed , what happens if terms are n't , ca n't be agreed ? |
| 2 | While McEnroe , who appeared far from visibly insecure , enjoyed watching the following match between compatriots Andre Agassi and Michael Chang , a clearly embarrassed Babcock was left to confirm that if he failed to come to a press conference after his next match — against Goran Ivanisevic tonight — he would be fined up to $10,000 . |
| 3 | My brother was like that once , he , he used to hate he used to hate he used to hate peas thank you , and once he got invited to a friend of his and there was peas , and he put just of four peas on his plate and said |
| 4 | He got talking to a man called Mac he met while listening to Vivaldi in Regent 's Park and they agreed to try playing something in one of the Baker Street concourses . |
| 5 | There he got talking to a gaunt girl in an ash-stained black smock who claimed to have read his screenplay and who , over glasses of red wine , and later in the terrible pub , told him he was a weakling and a hypocrite with no notion of the ways of men and women . |
| 6 | Two years ago he got married to a Miss Lilian Bardsley , sister of the man he 's in business with . |
| 7 | As he passed through a small piazza there was a shout and a boy appeared at a window holding a bulging plastic shopping bag which he let drop to a friend in the street who stood , arms raised to catch it . |
| 8 | His parents thought he 'd gone to a friend 's house in the next street . |
| 9 | The robber at Bath Road had grabbed £45,000 after shooting the two guards and made his initial getaway on a moped , found , say the prosecution , at the point at which he 'd switched to a getaway car driven by the second man . |
| 10 | He seemed to come to a decision and stared hard at Jack Stone . |
| 11 | At times he advised reverting to a lower potency if the higher potency aggravated ; at other times he advised giving a few doses of a partially similar remedy if any aggravation should occur ; he also suggested administering the remedy in liquid form , giving a few succussions before repeating ( the plus system ) . |
| 12 | While he was wrestling with this problem , he happened to go to a lecture by Einstein , and was struck by Einstein 's remark that his theory of relativity would fall to the ground if any of several tests failed . |
| 13 | He found that he enjoyed going to a parish to confirm the children , or to institute a new incumbent , and stay afterwards for the sausage rolls or sandwiches at the bunfight and chat up the people with a mixture of silence and belly-bumping laughter and beams all round and leg-pulling but with care and affection . |
| 14 | Although he passed his 11-plus he chose to go to a technical school as it would be more art orientated . |
| 15 | He managed to go to a morning service in church again , the first for seven weeks . |
| 16 | He managed to communicate to a certain extent through gestures and facial expressions , and he could put together short sentences . |
| 17 | Even if he managed to get to a horse , he had a nasty suspicion that it would follow him at its own pace . |
| 18 | He felt entitled to a response that was rather more sympathetic , to say the least . |
| 19 | He looked to belong to a different generation from that of Dysart and Ockleton , his face flushed and lined beneath a mane of grey hair , his chest heaving desperately as he lowered himself into the wheelchair . |
| 20 | He was supposed to go down well he did go to a meeting , but in he comes first of all . |
| 21 | But he did refer to a spectator and an alleged verbal and physical abuse on Dooley and himself . |
| 22 | To make matters worse , when he did refer to a rex he failed to name him . |
| 23 | To bring him up to the required standard he had to go to a boarding preparatory school , which he loathed so much he escaped over the wall and hitchhiked home . |
| 24 | It would of just , it would have been , if he had n't been that he , you know that he had to go to a school in Northumberland , he was just as near |
| 25 | In 1845 he had written to a friend : |
| 26 | Before he had left for the airport , he had attended to a few last minute details in his study at Buckingham Palace . |
| 27 | It was windy and the cedar , which he had likened to a galleon and Zosie to a witch , danced witch-like , its branches arms and leaping legs and flying skirts . |
| 28 | In June 1940 he had risen to a position of leadership as a result of extraordinary circumstances , to a degree by default ( because better-known people had either rallied to Pétain or done nothing ) , and certainly without having served a normal political apprenticeship . |
| 29 | Within a year he had moved to a more creative agency and four years later was working at the then most creative agency in London . |
| 30 | One his release he had moved to a flat in Hazeldene Drive . |