Example sentences of "he [verb] 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 | He turns to Perry . |
| 18 | He turns to Ludo . |
| 19 | And then with great deliberation he turns to GUIL . ) |
| 20 | He turns to GUIL who takes no notice . |
| 21 | Then he turns to God , not away from Him . |
| 22 | To be sure , God 's Spirit is at work in the East and everywhere , but that is different from saying that he contributes to beliefs which deny the truth that he has inspired . |
| 23 | He points to savings on rates — which can obviously be substantial in London — if one of the premises is kept empty , and other immediate gains from the cutting of staff in areas of duplication such as administration , accounts , quality control and training . |
| 24 | He points to Derrida s fascination with fourfold elements , evident in his deconstruction of the Hegelian triad — thesis , antithesis , synthesis — to add a fourth element , which is deconstruction itself . |
| 25 | Already across a wide range of different activities he points to advances in the process of ‘ breaking up , dissolving and methodologically as well as critically reconceiving the unitary field ruled hitherto by Orientalism , historicism , and what could be called essentialist universalism ’ . |
| 26 | Walter gave crack sprinter Sheikh Albadou a spin yesterday morning and he flies to New York to ride the horse in a pre-Breeders Cup race on Saturday week . |
| 27 | After that , he flies to Paris for a meeting with the French President , then on to Germany for the first historic conference with the heads of all the NATO , European Community and Warsaw Pact countries . |
| 28 | Since then Five Bellies , who is planning to live with his parents in Dunston until he flies to Rome , has been torn between his family and his Italian job with fun-loving Gazza . |
| 29 | But he will not be able to start planning his own campaign yet , because he flies to South Africa next week to help the ANC prepare for elections there . |
| 30 | Astonishingly Mathews , the only member of the murder gang to be apprehended , was given £1000 , half of which he passed to Drury . |