Example sentences of "he [vb past] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will the Minister widen his reply to include funding of the national companies , and in particular will he explain the remarks that he made to the Royal Society of Arts last week , when he speculated on the Government funding the national companies directly ? |
| 2 | Perhaps he ought to remember those days and get around to living up to the promise he made to the last Tory conference . |
| 3 | Mr Larkin is haunted by memories of a visit he made to the secluded woods at along with Marie Pettitt , Gary 's mother . |
| 4 | Perhaps the Home Secretary will get up to respond on the second point that he made to the Conservative party conference . |
| 5 | Thereafter Louis the German was the senior member of the family : some seventeen years older than his half-brother Charles , he lived to the ripe age of seventy . |
| 6 | When he succeeded to the English throne in 1272 Edward I was already in his thirties and a man of wide experience . |
| 7 | Increasingly he resorted to the crudest measurements of progress and methods of achieving it . |
| 8 | Subsequently , Gorbachev left Ryzhkov looking even more embattled when he announced to the Supreme Soviet that he personally preferred Shatalin 's programme . |
| 9 | So in July he announced to the American public : " we intend to honour our commitments " ( to West Germany and West Berlin ) and called for a build-up of American forces . |
| 10 | He led to the final 250 metres , before falling back to last . |
| 11 | He clung to the traditional view , stating that the problem was scientifically indeterminate . |
| 12 | As he clung to the bloodied body of his mother lying on Wimbledon Common , he cried : ‘ Mummy , get up , get up . ’ |
| 13 | But it was a good scene and , by the time he got to the Hooded Owl speech , he was back on course . |
| 14 | Before he got to the real problem . |
| 15 | But he got to the final table of the championship again this year . |
| 16 | He sank into the waiting limo unshaven , crumpled , white-faced , nervous , shattered and by the time he got to the posh Beverly Hills Hotel , in need of the complimentary bottle of Scotch a thoughtful management had left in his room . |
| 17 | Just as he got to the last one I said , by the way , I had one of those . |
| 18 | ‘ And when he got to the last slide , ’ Channell recalled , ‘ he suddenly became so powerfully emotive it was just like his whole spirit exploded . |
| 19 | When he got to the High Street , he saw Hasan and Aziz walking up to the Common . |
| 20 | By the time he got to the oldest , a tiresome socialite friend of his mother 's , he started : ‘ I do n't think much … . ’ |
| 21 | When he got to the fourth screen he stood it up for her to inspect . |
| 22 | He grabbed his passport but did n't open it until he got to the Hungarian border . |
| 23 | And by the time he got to the next corner , we 'd be back on the corner . ' |
| 24 | As soon as he got to the loose box where they had the horse he pulled a little bit of stick about six inches long out of his pocket and threw it right up into the manger . |
| 25 | He revealed to the Daily Post recently that he was ready and willing to take on a player-manager 's role . |
| 26 | In the letter of resignation which he conveyed to the Constitutional Council on Jan. 11 , Chadli revealed that he had dissolved ( on Jan. 4 as it later transpired ) by presidential decree the National Popular Assembly . |
| 27 | He ventured to the Blighted Isle in search of his father 's armour . |
| 28 | The Corporal glanced sympathetically at the two figures on the floor and then he moved to the other end of the barn . |
| 29 | Crouching again , he moved to the other side of the cabinet and repeated the same manoeuvre , craning his head to look out . |
| 30 | He moved to the small table , put down his glass and searched in his pockets for his cigarettes . |