Example sentences of "[conj] he [vb past] to [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm in the letters that he wrote to this bloke . |
| 2 | But I think that by the end of his career , Mario knew that he belonged to another time and another place . |
| 3 | It was while teaching a form called ‘ the sink ’ — the exam failures and the less bright — that he came to that perception which all good teachers share : to inspire pupils you have first to gain their attention and one of the best ways of doing that is through humour and anecdote . |
| 4 | ‘ Which is why it 's so super that he agreed to this interview , ’ she quickly covered her slip . |
| 5 | It was partly a gift for adaptability , partly a sense of fun or interest that he brought to any situation . |
| 6 | It was important to Trent that he held to that word ; as it had been important to him never to use the term ‘ Loyalist ’ when speaking of or reporting on the Protestant terrorists in Northern Ireland . |
| 7 | Perhaps Lord Ashley-Cooper was so horrified that he moved to another property , for there is evidence that the Manor reverted to being a tenanted farmhouse and remained thus until it was sold by the Shaftesburys in 1912 to Colonel Canning . |
| 8 | Wylie 's desire to maintain a more traditional notion of religion as a matter of truth and falsity ( where those with the truth have an obligation publicly to denounce falsity ) brought him into conflict with the state and he responded to that challenge by standing for election to the council . |
| 9 | The Ethics of Corporal Punishment appeared in 1907 and he returned to this theme in 1916 in The Flogging Craze , a Statement of the Case against Corporal Punishment . |
| 10 | We left there , we left about half five , six in the morning did n't we and we were getting lost in and we knew it was in the village in that town but we could n't find it and we kept getting lost so we all pulled her up and he went back and he said to this man can you tell me where the |
| 11 | In 1340 he was assessed to pay £10 towards the loan of £5,000 made to the king by the city of London ; and he contributed to another loan in 1346 . |
| 12 | Well , the angel Gabriel disguised himself as a poor beggar and walked through the forest until he came to this pear tree . |
| 13 | Thom was nearly caught in New Jersey , but he fled to another state . |
| 14 | There used to be a woman sergeant in [ place ] who used to refer to the reserve men as ‘ dick-head reserve men ’ , ‘ fucking idiots ’ , till one day this reserve man says to her , ‘ See that man over there , before he came to this job he was a aircraft technician , [ name ] used to be a chief mechanic . |
| 15 | Mary Benson recalls Orton Chirwa in Britain 40 years ago when he came to this country to protest against imposition of the Central African Federation : ‘ How vividly one recalls Orton , the slight , bespectacled , amused young lawyer who proved to be an articulate , passionate speaker whose wit enlivened public meetings from London to Edinburgh , while Banda , then a GP in Willesden , embarrassed organisers with his tub-thumping rhetoric — Banda the medical doctor , who was to subject Orton and Vera Chirwa to such extremes of suffering , remaining impervious to every appeal and protest on their behalf . |
| 16 | They were moving with me all the time and er , the eldest child was four year 's old when he came to this country and er , two and a half year 's old the girl , younger to him . |
| 17 | The instructor smiled as he went to each man in turn and pulled out two full arm lengths of cord from their parachutes before attaching it to the static line . |
| 18 | They spoke of Charles as though he were not there , as though he belonged to another world of logic from their own , as though he belonged , almost , to another species . |