Example sentences of "he [vb past] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nizan 's exceptionally good grasp of the Spanish political situation was doubtless the product of numerous visits that he made to Spain during 1936 . |
| 2 | He accompanied King James on the visit which he made to Scotland to impose episcopacy , and in his sermons there supported him in this venture , which was to have calamitous results for the monarchy in the next reign . |
| 3 | It is thought that the work may have been presented to the Queen by her Privy Councillor and Ambassador , Sir James Melville ( whose signature appears on the title-page ) , perhaps following a visit he made to Italy . |
| 4 | That he had on previous occasions overcome his antipathy to women is suggested by remarks he made to others . |
| 5 | The former head of stone and sculpture conservation at the Victoria and Albert Museum has been aware of the problems since a visit he made to Agra in 1985 . |
| 6 | The contrast between the two kings was ruefully noted by Louis himself in a remark he made to Walter Map : |
| 7 | My father had shot one , as had the Duke of Gloucester during a hunting safari he made to Chelalo in the Arussi mountains after Haile Selassie 's coronation ; otherwise , few Europeans had even seen a mountain nyala , soft was a prize that both Haig-Thomas and I were keen to secure . |
| 8 | Pity he did n't fulfil a promise he made to Darlington Business Venture when he came up last November . |
| 9 | Another example of the rich and regal possibilities which religion offered Cnut is provided by a visit which he made to Glastonbury on 30 November of a year which may have been 1032 , when William of Malmesbury says that he laid a cloak decorated with peacocks on the tomb of Edmund Ironside . |
| 10 | Within a few days he had received some opinions on it which he transmitted to Pons immediately . |
| 11 | ‘ Is it after you or my father ? ’ he whispered to Tallis when she came back to him . |
| 12 | In the back of the shop he whispered to George : ‘ He 's as queer as a nine-bob note , but he 's a good little worker . |
| 13 | ‘ Are you sure you 're OK , Connie ? ’ he whispered to Connon as the others went ahead through the door . |
| 14 | ‘ He 's Sir Benson Craig , the new owner of Enderley , ’ he whispered to Mary . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm sorry , my friend , ’ he whispered to Harald . |
| 16 | In March 1604 he was returned MP for Andover ; in 1614 he succeeded to Rushbrooke Hall , and , with this new dignity , was elected MP for Suffolk . |
| 17 | Astonishingly Mathews , the only member of the murder gang to be apprehended , was given £1000 , half of which he passed to Drury . |
| 18 | Carleton 's father was receiver to the abbot of Westminster and later deputy receiver-general to the dean and chapter , a connection which secured his son a Westminster exhibition at Christ Church , Oxford , whence he passed to Gray 's Inn in 1552 . |
| 19 | Even so , I had been surprised when he agreed to back me on the amateur circuit for one year after I left the university . |
| 20 | The next morning , a Sunday , he agreed to Dick 's suggestion to see a West German doctor , had tests done the following Wednesday and was referred to Zurich for an operation a week later . |
| 21 | If he agreed to marriage it would mean a whole new lifestyle . |
| 22 | Tony Page , Assistant Manager , Administration , Corporate Banking , Edinburgh devised a crossword , copies of which he sold to friends and colleagues for £1 each . |
| 23 | Liverpool magistrates heard that the illegal videos he sold to dealers all over Britain included scenes of cannibalism and disembowel ment . |
| 24 | The students I talked to here were Bryony Langworth who had designed an attractive coffee and tea service ; Christina Kirk , whose glass I admired ; Steven Keegan who had done a series of animal sculptures , one of which he sold to Dame Mary Soames ; Julie Sellars whose water sculpture for Shaftesbury Avenue 1990 looked most attractive ; Theresa Czyzewicz whose jewellery entailed the finest workmanship and was very pretty ; Clive van Heerden who was in a wheelchair near his exhibition as I arrived . |
| 25 | That ability to build and keep a good team explains why , when he sold to Shandwick in 1989 , the performance-related deal valued PRCS at £5 million plus and Murphy at more than £2.5 million . |
| 26 | He made use of the new Dover–Calais cable to transmit information , which he sold to clients , between the London and Paris stock exchanges . |
| 27 | Mr Packer was being actively lobbied to take joint venture control of the Bond Media Channel 9 Network , which he sold to Mr Bond for more than A$1billion several years ago . |
| 28 | If under the contract between A and B property had not yet passed to B ( see Chapter 3 ) , then A was still the owner when he sold to C. Still being the owner , A could pass that ownership to C. One has to examine the two contracts , B's and C's , and find out under which of them property was to pass first . |
| 29 | Mr Segni says he resorted to referendums after more than ten years of fruitless debate within the party on institutional reform . |
| 30 | THE gunman in the Darlington siege loved his girlfriend so much he resorted to violence in a fit of jealousy , it was claimed last night . |