Example sentences of "he [verb] to [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You know as well as any what answer he made to their urging and how fast they dropped it , at least in his hearing . |
| 2 | I immediately set about trying to fulfil Mr Farraday 's wishes , but as you know , finding recruits of a satisfactory standard is no easy task nowadays , and although I was pleased to hire Rosemary and Agnes on Mrs Clements 's recommendation , I had got no further by the time I came to have my first business meeting with Mr Farraday during the short preliminary visit he made to our shores in the spring of last year . |
| 3 | His concern for the Dunsden poor and the compassion of his war poetry are at odds with a remark he made to his mother at the outbreak of hostilities . |
| 4 | The offer he made to his boardroom colleagues yesterday was 20p a share , 30p less than their original value . |
| 5 | He crosses to his wall safe . |
| 6 | teams know what it is like to play in a school for educationally sub-normal children who can not ( or do not want to ) distinguish between the ‘ baddy ’ character and the actor — who finds himself molested as he retreats to his car after the show ! |
| 7 | When Nigel 's not working , he retreats to his Wiltshire home , where his daughter Kate , now 13 , and Polly 's sons , William , 10 , and eight-year-old Ben , are frequent visitors . |
| 8 | He is an intellectual man but since he has married , a woman who is quite the opposite of him , the reader often notices that he retreats to his library during the course of the book . |
| 9 | After a gracious speech in which he asked America to unite behind the new president , he whispered to his wife : ‘ It 's over . ’ |
| 10 | " Do I have to wear this blazer-thing ? he whispered to his mother , |
| 11 | Whilst lying on his death bed , he whispered to his daughter , ‘ Look after your mother for me ’ . |
| 12 | In 1648 a knighthood was conferred upon Duncombe and in 1655 , upon his father 's death , he succeeded to his Bedfordshire estates . |
| 13 | He succeeded to his barony as a minor in July 1742 and may have been educated at the English Jesuit College at St Omer in France . |
| 14 | Tranmere were restricted to the occasional breakaway which usually ended with an offside decision and Nixon came to their rescue again when he swooped to his right to hold Wright 's shot . |
| 15 | To find an issuer , he turns to his stable of MTNs , pre-arranged programmes under which a company can issue a variety of securities . |
| 16 | He turns to his deputy and says , ‘ Is that made of steel ? ’ |
| 17 | Where an officer wants to see what a new or unconsented discharge consists of , therefore , or where his own judgment suggests that a discharge may be polluting , he turns to his sample bucket , which offers the ultimate means for practical purposes of establishing the kind and degree of pollution . |
| 18 | As we approach he points to his left and with some aggression in his voice . |
| 19 | He wo n't divulge what , but ‘ it affects my appearance , too ’ , and he points to his new haircut , a welcome improvement on Adrian 's slightly leftover hippie look . |
| 20 | He remarks to his son that unhappiness is just as necessary to mankind as happiness — one of those cherished convictions of Dostoevsky that get slipped in when our attention is elsewhere . |
| 21 | The freedom of creation is equally important for Coleridge ; as he remarks to his son , lying beside him , ‘ but thou , my babe ! shalt wander like a breeze ’ , is a further indication of the poet 's personal response to his own ordered Christian upbringing , and the manner in which he wants his own offspring to be free in terms of imagination , and therefore have the freedom of creative thought . |
| 22 | But before he cruised to his unbeaten 85 which sealed this victory with more than 11 overs to spare , he was put through quite an ordeal by the pumped-up Waqar . |
| 23 | Boon was their hero … he cruised to his century and set his team up for a big score … |
| 24 | In that year , represented in Paris by Francois Cothereau , ‘ hautbois du Roy de France living on the rue St Marguerite , parish of St Sulpice ’ he sold to his brother Jean ( ‘ hautbois du Roy living in this city of Paris , rue des Fosses , St Germain des Pres , parish of St Sulpice ’ ) land in La Couture which he had inherited on his mother 's death in 1669 ( document 3 ) . |
| 25 | He goes to their parties ! |
| 26 | A prude , Chloe , marries a zealot , Enthusiano , who eventually locks her up with directions to say her prayers , as he goes to his mistress . |
| 27 | Maybe he seeks a more thrustful mien so that when he goes to his nasty little hutch in the City and glares at his neurotically blinking little screen and barks into his cellular telephone for another tranche of lead futures or whatever , he comes over as just a trifle more macho than we all know him to be . |
| 28 | He goes to his lorry where he drags six bags to the edge of the lorry 's platform . |
| 29 | And that 's where he goes to his meetings on Tuesdays and Fridays , and sometimes on a Sunday and any other time his need calls him . ’ |
| 30 | and he goes to his mum , Mum ? and she 's cooking he goes Mum ? erm What does A mean ? |