Example sentences of "he [verb] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made to shine the torch into her face , but she pushed his hand down . |
| 2 | As he made to leave the chamber , Deems said , ‘ If you perceive that the Emperor does not trust you , why continue faithful ? ’ |
| 3 | He made to close the door . |
| 4 | He also — as a by-product of the grant he made to repay the monks for the loss of their plate following his aid to Rufus in 1095 — provided money for the rebuilding of the cathedral choir on a greatly enlarged scale . |
| 5 | The difficulty with writing it down was that it became real to the extent of being in a book , there were two lives , the one in the book and the one which he lived to collect the details for the book one ; he could go further in his head than on the page , the words slowed him down . |
| 6 | He lived to see the headquarters of the organization to which he had devoted his life established in purpose-built premises on the site at the National Water Sports Centre . |
| 7 | Author of The Road to Serfdom , published — impossibly ill-timed — on the eve of Labour 's great victory in 1945 , he lived to see the crumbling of communism ; the destruction , as no doubt he saw it , of collectivism 's inner citadel . |
| 8 | Deteriorating eyesight compelled him to give up painting in 1975 , but he lived to see the beginning of a major revival of his reputation . |
| 9 | He lived to tell the tale . |
| 10 | L. MacNeill Weir , in his book The Tragedy of Ramsay MacDonald , was the main critic , suggesting that MacDonald was an opportunist , a liberal rather than a socialist , that he schemed to ditch the Labour government , and betrayed the Labour Party . |
| 11 | I refused to believe that he chanced to have the same name as the previous tenants of the cottage — unless he himself was the previous tenant , and had for some reason returned to Moila without wanting to be known ? |
| 12 | So he swooped to catch the falling child , drive away the wolf or restore the horse — all these miracles being depicted in small panels round the central figure of the Saint . |
| 13 | ’ He turns to face the elder policeman . |
| 14 | I replied to him that if he cared to submit the List to any representative group of Jews , he would hear their ‘ no ’ from Downing Street to Golders Green . |
| 15 | Outside in London , if he cared to leave the flat , he would have found an atmosphere , an edge , that any man of twenty-five with money in his pocket and an afternoon like that behind him should have delighted in . |
| 16 | ‘ I do n't know how he planned to explain the false name and why he was living at Pen House , ’ said Holmes . |
| 17 | Now he planned to do the same with the female cub , who had been given the most unleopard-like name of Harriet . |
| 18 | He planned to play the Florida mini-tours , did so without much success , tried some events in and around New England in the summers , bounced around some more , then finally got his USPGA Tour card on his third try . |
| 19 | Cover up … how he planned to burn the evidence . |
| 20 | He planned to catch the 6 pm flight back to Munich . |
| 21 | In 1936 Trinity gave him a scholarship and he planned to study the Elizabethans , but when the Spanish civil war broke out on 18 July 1936 , on a sudden impulse and without even saying goodbye to his family he left for Dieppe . |
| 22 | General Nocenzi had offered his office for the young Prince 's use , and it was there , at the very top of the vast , three-hundred-level fortress , that he planned to meet the boy . |
| 23 | There were plans to revive it and turn it into an Ulster Loyalist pressure group when a leading member , Archibald Whitmore , an ex-member of the Ulster Volunteer Force , announced to influential people at the Bath Club that he planned to develop the BF in Ireland along the same lines as the movement in 1914 . |
| 24 | If he ran into Eleanor he planned to blame the general editor and make soothing noises . |
| 25 | The answer is that they pursued the site owner monthly for three years until he agreed to sell the plot , seconds away from Hampstead Heath , then designed a five-bedroom house with 40ft outdoor pool and had it built . |
| 26 | No one really wants to know about him , and he knows why he agreed to do the film , why on the last day of shooting he dismissed it as a ‘ stinker ’ , what he thinks of it now . |
| 27 | I do n't honestly know why he agreed to do the film , except that all he wanted was a fifteen-minute death scene . |
| 28 | He agreed to do the first voyage there and back before receiving payment , as long as Ralemberg agreed to underwrite the voyage , using his house as collateral . |
| 29 | I told him stealing a car would n't solve anything and he agreed to park the car . |
| 30 | " For God 's sake ! " whispered Mr Plant , and without further argument he agreed to convey the tin bath from Swines ' yard to the rectory garden on the morning of Easter Saturday . |