Example sentences of "he [verb] to [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Wheeler , an engineer who worked for many years in the oil business , is a pleasant , slightly worried-looking man who can not bear the fact that no one seems to realise just what lengths he goes to in order to keep the plant squeaky clean and emission-free . |
| 2 | This is the system of signification that he refers to as ‘ metalanguage ’ and for Barthes , semiology is a metalinguistic description of ordinary language . |
| 3 | Elias ' theory of the civilising process has also been described as a history of manners , in which changing patterns of living are documented , and within which what he refers to as ‘ affect ’ becomes increasingly regulated . |
| 4 | During periods of change such as this , what he refers to as ‘ status movements ’ may emerge which attempt , through symbolic rather than instrumental means , to increase or simply maintain the prestige or honour of a particular social group . |
| 5 | This he refers to as ‘ cultural defence ’ . |
| 6 | He argues that societies are organized around what he refers to as certain ‘ axial structures ’ . |
| 7 | The hypothetical experiment which Keynes is undertaking is an examination of the consequences of a fall in the real wage rate brought about through a rise in the general price level , P ( what he refers to as ‘ the price of wage-goods ’ ) in relation to the money wage , W. The initial real wage rate is and the corresponding ‘ existing volume of employment ’ is 4 , . |
| 8 | Killing two men at his friend Pat Garrett 's wedding , The Kid is turned into a hunted prey , cast aside by those he looks to for affection and Newman becomes a psychotic outsider . |
| 9 | One of the things that he objected to about a tradition of painting that was governed by a scientific , single viewpoint system of perspective was that it gave the spectator an incomplete picture or idea about the subject . |
| 10 | We know that the right hon. Gentleman would add to taxation , for he needs to in order to sustain his promises . |
| 11 | Acknowledging the problems inherent in the learned safety hypothesis , Kalat ( 1977 ) suggested a revision which he referred to as ‘ learned non-correlation ’ . |
| 12 | Innumerable short encounters were jotted down in his diaries , which he referred to as ‘ memorandum books ’ , as well as in the Guide Book . |
| 13 | But he did believe the working class — which he referred to as if it were a single-willed person — would do somewhat unlikely things . |
| 14 | Our builder suggested a lady whom he referred to as ‘ Barney ’ , who lived in a nearby village and had holiday cottages of her own . |
| 15 | For example , in September 1919 , in its account of a meeting of the Board of Guardians , the Bedfordshire Times reported that a member had complained of what he referred to as ‘ an appalling increase of rates ’ . |
| 16 | His plea was well received by his listeners who , if they did not quite accept his characterisation of the present moment as a ‘ cultural war ’ between the advocates of free expression and individuals he referred to as ‘ know-nothings ’ , nonetheless were happy , even relieved , to have something resembling moral high ground from which to defend themselves in the controversy and even take the battle back to the ‘ enemy ’ . |
| 17 | Marx predicted that this group , which he referred to as the petty ( or petit ) bourgeoisie , would be progressively squeezed into the proletariat . |
| 18 | Sometimes , when Henry was trying to write a letter of apology to the analyst for having quit , and wondering whether the man was all right — and when Finch was pondering the need to do the same thing — they would wander off together and watch Cecil coaching the people he referred to as ‘ the speaking parts . ’ |
| 19 | Nevertheless , he viewed Coenwulf as a tyrant , who had compounded his deficiencies by putting away his wife and taking another ( as Eardwulf had done in Northumbria ) , and urged the Mercian patrician to advise the Mercian people to observe what he referred to as the good and chaste customs of Offa . |
| 20 | ‘ Peterborough ’ , the Daily Telegraph 's columnist , was probably not alone in ridiculing the 1942 Beveridge Report 's idea of marriage as a partnership , which he referred to as ‘ Cupid 's team ’ . |
| 21 | Geoff ambled out in quest of what he referred to as ‘ the bog ’ . |
| 22 | The person he referred to as Matt is his uncle . |
| 23 | These included his controversial and televised snub to his Dublin counterpart , Gay Mitchell , whom he referred to as a ‘ foreigner ’ and failed to wear his chain of office during their brief City Hall meeting . |
| 24 | But he was evidently even less happy than Dottie about my going back to what he referred to with thinly veiled distaste as " that place " . |
| 25 | Unfortunately , he decided to side with Detroit on the day , so that he might be as comfortably partisan as usual , but he did so among a group of Pittsburgh supporters , whom he referred to throughout the same as Pitts-buggers , which did nothing to improve inter-City relations . |
| 26 | Three generations later , the third John Pollexton inherited Mothecombe in 1700 and proceeded to build what he referred to in his will as ‘ the new house by me erected ’ . |
| 27 | Lear was a lonely , awkward boy , frightened by depression , the deaths of four of his sisters , and frequent attacks epilepsy , which he referred to in his ignorance as ‘ The Morbids ’ and ‘ The Terrible Demon ’ . |
| 28 | I am sure he would have considered that both technical accomplishment and , though not perhaps in the modern sense , introspection , were valuable for the poet , but the labour and intense study which you 'll have noticed he referred to in that passage I 've read , consisted of course of learning large numbers of languages , which he clearly did with great fluency , and reading inordinately the whole of human literature . |
| 29 | you 're not too sure what he wants , he 's agreed to see you next week , he does n't know why he 's seeing you but you go back and you present , so try and overcome rejection but the thing was he wants to in the first place . |
| 30 | He felt it was possible and he opted to at least try to stay out of the glitterama ; and , as the movie industry would soon learn , this cool-headed assessment of the way he hoped his career would pan out would soon include his rejection of many scripts including The Godfather , The Sting and The Great Gatsby . |