Example sentences of "it [verb] he to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tony looked again at the poster — felt it drawing him to the past — the glamour of showbusiness , with its stage-door Johnnies and exciting , feminine showgirls . |
| 2 | Here is a passage of Thoreau which both demonstrates the creative process and also shows that it led him to the peak experience which he termed being charmed . |
| 3 | However , as he wrote in the following May , it galled him to be expected to do so and still to be refused admission to the members ' enclosures at smart meetings . |
| 4 | Yanto Gates broke through the blackthorn hedge which separated the Severn bank from the adjacent Berkeley to Gloucester canal towpath , and surveyed the scene before him He loved this river , but tonight , bathed in this unusually bright moonlight , it moved him to the point of goose pimples . |
| 5 | It gratified him to be seen in her company . |
| 6 | Three times the court adjourned , and finally , without allowing him to speak further , it condemned him to death for treason against the people . |
| 7 | If Chatterton chooses to flog , with the agreement of the committee , priceless port from the cellar , so long as the money is laundered through the entertainment account it allows him to be subsidised for a jaunt to Monte Carlo and no doubt Fishbane for nights of bliss with ladies from a call-girl agency . ’ |
| 8 | It provoked him to impotent fury , but there was nothing he could do . |
| 9 | Eleanor had just been photographed for one of the supplements and it pleased him to be seen with someone in the news . |
| 10 | It shows him to be a man of sufficient moveable property but with hardly any land . |
| 11 | It declared him to be ‘ in no sense party political ’ ; despite having ‘ roots on the left ’ , he had become fascinated from the mid-1970s onwards ( like Jay ) by Thatcherite economics . |
| 12 | It takes him to tenth place in the Ryder Cup table and the farming philanthropists will also get their reward . |
| 13 | It exposed him to some influences that were thoroughly unhelpful , but as a matter of loyalty , and nothing else , he would not discard the people who , he believed , had been of help to him . |
| 14 | Not only did it free him from Reine , it returned him to préfleur . |
| 15 | For if he was right , then this lull foreboded some new and less direct assault upon him , and it behoved him to be ready for it . |
| 16 | Meanwhile , a wide variety of courts administered a wide variety of laws all over western Europe ; and if one asked a man in any part of Europe to whose law he was subject , he might well have answered ‘ to my law ’ — for law was a personal thing , which a man might carry about with him ; it bound him to the courts to which his ancestors had been subject , to the laws of those courts , and gave him the privileges which those courts provided . |
| 17 | It guided him to the stairs , which were straight ahead . |
| 18 | He had sailed to Ninfania from Illyria , in a big double bass of a galleon , with a prow carved like a volute , and it brought him to the shore in the harbour he then designated Ribaris , after the peak where the Ark had come to rest , once all the waters of the flood had drained out of the plughole of divine fury . |
| 19 | And I think it brought him to his senses a lot after that , he thought well hello I 've got what do you call it now ? |
| 20 | When he was consecrated , however , Cranmer made a public protestation that any oath which he took acknowledging the authority of the Pope was not intended to be binding if it were against the law of God or the King 's prerogatives , nor would it bind him to be less free in reformation of the Church . |
| 21 | It embarrassed him to be sitting so close to the rector 's wife and he kept as far to the side as he could so that no one would think he was enjoying her company . |
| 22 | Even then , Lloyd went down fighting with 72 in his last innings ; it took him to a total of 7,515 runs at 46 , with nineteen centuries . |
| 23 | It inspires him to be so close . |
| 24 | It introduced him to the human race . |
| 25 | It introduced him to the bizarre situation that Churches treated each other worse than they treated anyone else ; and to the recognition that the reason for this was not religious but racial . |
| 26 | It introduced him to enlightened learning and a sophisticated life of foreign travel , and enabled him to move in the scientific circles centred round Sir Charles Cavendish . |
| 27 | Today , of course , it suited him to be doing the shopping . |
| 28 | This meant that he never fought them on his own terms , always theirs , and it blinded him to the realisation that when all else failed , when all the appeals for ‘ fair play ’ fell on stony ground , that he could have utilised his mass following of workers to shake the ground beneath the Empire . |
| 29 | Was he so wrapped up in his beautiful secretary that it blinded him to everything ? |
| 30 | The relationship that the building surveyor is able to develop directly with the client is unusual in its closeness , and has a special significance in that it enables him to be identified as the expert in the area of work under inquiry . |