Example sentences of "he [verb] [vb pp] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The local authority to which he applied refused to provide the necessary grant , and the person was sadly compelled to turn down a place on a one-year post-graduate course which had already been offered to him . |
| 2 | Much praised for his Paris-set debut feature , A World Without Pity , he looks poised to consolidate his reputation for conceptual clarity with his second film , Autobus . |
| 3 | It is nineteen months since Richard Ryder was appointed Government Chief Whip and in that time he has risen to become John Major 's right-hand man . |
| 4 | Gravenor Henson , the leader of the Framework Knitters " Union , regarded the existence of the acts as " a tremendous millstone round the neck of the local artisan , which has depressed and debased him to the earth , every act which he has attempted every measure that he has devised to keep up or raise his wages , he has been told was illegal : the whole force of the civil power and influence of the district has been exerted against him because he was acting illegally " . |
| 5 | He has pledged to give greater state help to the estimated 37 million people not covered by health insurance in the USA . |
| 6 | He has pledged to increase support by 10 per cent above the rate of inflation for the next three years . |
| 7 | Next year , he has pledged to increase the present company car taxing scales by 8pc , but from 1995 drivers will pay tax according to the manufacturer 's list price for each car . |
| 8 | This year he has endeavoured to compete in as many Challenge Tour events as he can . |
| 9 | It is common for a Member who has asked a question on an important matter but who is dissatisfied with the answer that he has received to give notice that he wishes to raise the matter again on the adjournment and to do so . |
| 10 | Each one should use whatever gift he has received to serve others , faithfully administering God 's grace in its various forms . |
| 11 | I stand on his heel and ask the others if he has gone to sleep or what , and one of them responds on cue and asks what happened to the bozo in the front room . |
| 12 | ‘ I imagine he has gone to say goodbye to Claudine , ’ she announced , although Jenna had not dared to ask where he was . |
| 13 | He has gone to see Madame Verveine at the nursing-home . ’ |
| 14 | But the case is widely referred to as ‘ the Baltimore affair ’ because of the surprising lengths to which he has gone to defend Dr Imanishi-Kari . |
| 15 | One of the critics concerned is the director of a choir in the best Oxbridge tradition ; the other is a British composer who finds the Iberian peninsula so attractive that he has gone to live there . |
| 16 | I guess he has gone to switch on . |
| 17 | Indeed , callers to his home in the Hampshire village of Whiteparish were greeted with a sarcastic telephone message , which said : ‘ I am sorry Robin can not come to the phone — he has gone to have his foot amputated . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ He has gone to find you a room , ’ said the Feldwebel , sitting down in front of the fire and stretching his legs . |
| 19 | He has gone to meet ordinary people . |
| 20 | Nelson says he has striven to maintain that balance rather than provide a recording of the set pieces interspersed with insubstantial spoken passages . |
| 21 | Already in The Black Riders , though , he has begun to grow up and Violet Needham has begun to equip him for the role of teacher and mentor even as he is still meeting the challenge of danger with the eager opportunism of a boy . |
| 22 | He has begun to remove teacher training from the colleges which have served us so ill in the past and to put it in the hands of the best schools . |
| 23 | While research looks like taking more of a backseat in the new government , the extent to which Fabius will change research policy will become apparent only when he has begun to change the people in key staff positions . |
| 24 | Peter Davenport is now 60 years old , and although he is still very much in charge , he has begun to show signs of wanting to take things more easily . |
| 25 | The measures he has adopted to achieve this objective include : |
| 26 | I welcome the view of the hon. Member for Harrow , West ( Mr. Hughes ) that Le Pen — a person whose only claim to fame is the manner in which in France he has agitated to poison race relations and incite hatred — is completely unwelcome in Britain and should not have been allowed in . |
| 27 | Faced , as far as he can see , with a future of minimum inflow and maximum outflow , he has decided to sell his gallery at 22 Cork Street as an art object . |
| 28 | The Secretary of State has made regulations specifying teachers ' contractual obligations ; a comprehensive list of duties ; he has decided to scrap the long-established machinery in which teachers ' pay and conditions were negotiated and has assumed temporary powers to determine these himself ; and he has introduced a national curriculum . |
| 29 | The injury has failed to respond to treatment and he has decided to retire . |
| 30 | As a result , he has decided to withdraw his backing from the production . ’ |