Example sentences of "he [vb past] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will he tell the House a little more about what representations he made to the Government of India on those important matters ? |
| 2 | Is that what he has been seeking to negotiate in the references that he made to the limitations on deficits ? |
| 3 | He remembered now ; he always felt the same by this stage of every visit he made to the Dysons ' house in the daytime , while the children were about . |
| 4 | Out through the swing doors he made to the Rendezvous Coffee House . |
| 5 | He was one of the earliest arrivals at Augusta , playing his first practice round on Saturday , which was a direct contradiction of a statement he made to the Augusta Chronical when he said he tried to treat the Masters like ‘ any other tournament ’ . |
| 6 | Doctor the medical expert called on behalf of the defendant , had discussed the question of future care in a visit he made to the plaintiff 's hou home in July this year . |
| 7 | The unrivalled versatility of ‘ The Brig ’ was shown by the contributions he made to the solution of a number of machine ciphers during World War II . |
| 8 | In the third of our series on major Scottish architects , David Walker describes the career of William Burn ( 1789–1870 ) and the important contribution he made to the planning of the Victorian country house |
| 9 | Socially , he was at the top of the ladder and he lived to the limits of his wealth . |
| 10 | In conclusion , it is clear that from this examination of the state of weaponry and warfare throughout the reign of Barbarossa , and given that he lived to the age of 70 , he must have experienced many of the gradual changes and improvements in arms and armour that occurred during the twelfth century . |
| 11 | His ideas appeared to bring some benefits : he lived to the age of 94 and at 87 married a young wife . |
| 12 | In this case the seller will not be in breach of the terms implied by section 12 provided that before the contract was made he disclosed to the buyer the existence of the lien . |
| 13 | ‘ I can see it … ’ he whispered to the others . |
| 14 | ‘ But to myself I 'll call myself John , ’ he whispered to the mirror . |
| 15 | ‘ Are you sure you have n't made a mistake ? ’ he whispered to the pair . |
| 16 | When he succeeded to the throne in 1625 , Buckingham became his chief minister . |
| 17 | In June 1827 he succeeded to the title and estates of his uncle Charles . |
| 18 | He succeeded to the baronetcy in 1770 , and was not yet twenty years old when he rescued Coleridge from probable death on the banks of the River Otter . |
| 19 | He succeeded to the baronetcy in 1822 and spent the remainder of his life as a leading public figure in Lincoln , of which he became high steward , and its county . |
| 20 | He succeeded to the baronetcy in 1871 , left India in 1878 , and settled in Oxford . |
| 21 | In 1147 he succeeded to the dukedom of Swabia , and within a year he set out to take part in the Second Crusade , under the command of his uncle Conrad III and Louis VII of France . |
| 22 | On the death of his father , the 5th Duke , he succeeded to the Dukedom of Montrose , and took his seat in the House of Lords . |
| 23 | From 1924 until 1932 , when he succeeded to the peerage , he made use of his scientific training as livestock officer , and later marketing officer , in the Ministry of Agriculture . |
| 24 | In 1930 he succeeded to the earldom and to an alarming load of debt . |
| 25 | By the time he limped to the scullery door she was back again , broom in hand , and had begun attacking mud that had been tramped inside the kitchen during the past week . |
| 26 | It was weighty with water now cold , but he limped to the lavatory with it , emptied it , cleaned it and put it back on its hook . |
| 27 | He limped to the side of the roof and looked down into the yard . |
| 28 | On 22 January 1946 he agreed to the formation of the Central Intelligence Group ( CIG ) , which was to be a small organisation simply collating all forms of foreign intelligence and reporting back to the president through the National Intelligence Authority ( NIA ) . |
| 29 | He agreed to the clause allowing them to release records elsewhere , after giving RCA the first option , because he say it as common sense . |
| 30 | In deference to the apparent madness of King George III he agreed to the Lord Chamberlain 's proposal , as play censor , to omit Shakespeare 's King Lear from the repertory which told of a monarch similarly afflicted ; but clashed with him over The School for Scandal , the objections to which , however , he managed to resolve , bringing him a period of near prosperity . |