Example sentences of "he [vb past] to [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He described to me the glen in a storm — the darkness that mantles it , the springing into life of untold hosts of runlets , the careering in mad fury of the burns as they break through and tower above the channel wherein they are wont to flow ; the showers , the careering of the clouds , the thunderings and the lightning-flashings , and the artillery of the winds , as the air-gusts meet the peaks and explode in the hollows of the darksome corries . |
| 2 | And then he described to me the first time he and Montaine had happened upon it . |
| 3 | ‘ To be sure , the lad 's name is Gabriel , and he came to me the very day I was needing an angel . |
| 4 | Of course , he does not care a rap whether it is true or not — but he is dreadfully afraid that by prematurely espousing it he might lose some subscribers , though he acknowledged to me the other day he thought it would be generally accepted before long . ’ |
| 5 | John Lehmann had such confidence in Minton 's design sense that when he handed to him the typescript of Elizabeth David 's A Book of Mediterranean Food he gave him carte blanche to do as he liked with it . |
| 6 | He misrepresented to her the purpose of the advance . |
| 7 | I dare not ask directly what is the precise matter but I see in Mr Browning 's eyes an anxiety deeper than usual and he confessed to me the other day that he fears there may be water on the lung . |
| 8 | In 1850 he decided to mine the seam of ironstone cropping out on the Cleveland Hills east of Middlesbrough , soon erecting nine blast-furnaces for its treatment and establishing the commercial viability of Cleveland iron . |
| 9 | He hinted to me the week before the event that he would n't mind a rest one day and I thought about that and thought about it again when we got to The Belfry . |
| 10 | He was concerned with the sale and exchange of fiefs and the preservation of the comital domain : there is some evidence that , like the Recognicionesfeodorum of 1273–5 in Gascony , measures intended to clarify and even reform the feudal structure of the comté were initiated under Edward I. In a letter dated 5 June 1285 Edward and Eleanor confirmed a grant by Gerard d'Abbeville , lord of Mons-Bouberc , in which he assigned to her the payment of an annual rent on his property at Abbeville . |
| 11 | He offered an as yo as you read it there in the opening of chapter two , he offered her drink , at meal times she was to eat the food provided for Boaz servants he gave to her the extra portion of parched corn and also he provided extra gleaning for her . |
| 12 | He said to us the other day , ‘ This little country is the key . |