Example sentences of "[det] he [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Rameshwar read this he went to Tukaram and praised his greatness and goodness . |
| 2 | In this he refers to a St. Kilda man who had occasion to visit Harris and later Skye , and of that trip Buchan writes thus : — ‘ One of the things he and they with him wondered at most was , the Growth of Trees , they thought the Beauty of Leaves and Branches admirable , and how they grow to such a Height above Plants was far above their Conception . |
| 3 | This he refers to as ‘ cultural defence ’ . |
| 4 | All this he left to Mother . |
| 5 | This he returned to its position beneath the layer of coffee grounds . |
| 6 | On 17 February 1895 Milne 's Tokyo house and observatory were destroyed by fire , and shortly after this he returned to England , settling at Shide Hill House , Isle of Wight . |
| 7 | All this he told to Glorious and his friends . |
| 8 | At this he seemed to liven up , and went back to being Oliver . |
| 9 | Walker ( 1975 ) has noted that mature students who did not satisfy the GER obtained significantly better degree results than all students while mature students who satisfied the GER did not differ significantly from the norm , and in seeking an explanation for this he points to the fact that those who did not satisfy the GER are on average somewhat older and can be seen as genuine returners , rather than students who have taken longer to meet the traditional qualifications . |
| 10 | This he attributed to the solo exercise . |
| 11 | Fossils from more recent strata showed progressively less similarities with time in the different continents ; this he attributed to the contrasting evolutionary paths of groups of animals and plants separated by continental drift . |
| 12 | This he attributes to our oceanic climate . |
| 13 | This he attributes to a resistance on the part of Northerners to adapt their speech towards a recognised stereotype , although they will happily adapt other vowels which carry less social significance . |
| 14 | All this he did to boys without any compulsion or correction ; nay I never heard him utter so much as a word of austerity among us . ’ |
| 15 | You should have told Pike which half he belonged to . ’ |
| 16 | But his honesty and modesty endeared him to many who valued his wise advice : not a few he encouraged to posts of greater responsibility and challenge . |
| 17 | Professor Miller , for such he has to be called for identification purposes , was first asked to give a definition of what psychology was , though the other Miller probably knew what the answer would be . |
| 18 | I am sure that they had a twofold motivation : reluctance to be burdened with a teenager who was n't earning a wage , and the consideration of how much he meant to Cis . |
| 19 | Yes , they realised how much he meant to the fans . |
| 20 | Police asked him how much he took to ‘ get a buzz ’ . |
| 21 | He was sensitive to this lack of recognition , but at the same time fully understood how much he owed to having been saved from the academic treadmill . |
| 22 | And at last , and most imprudently , he married an ambitious tyrant who drove him up the career ladder , and when things began to get too much he set to work on a toy church with pastor , pulpit , congregation , organ and so forth . |
| 23 | ( Dmitry did n't kill his father but he keeps baring his breast to people about how much he wanted to . ) |
| 24 | Huy started to walk away , realising with bitterness how far away he still was from being accepted in this new society , and realising to his renewed surprise how much he wanted to be . |
| 25 | I heard all he said to thee … though we could take a boat to France … they go regular . |
| 26 | He played a song at the end of the interview , and all he said to the band was : ‘ When I kick , that means I 'm going to start , and when I kick my leg again , that means I 'm going to stop . ’ |
| 27 | But i if you you see a all he said to me , Tats is closed at the moment , he said er |
| 28 | The success that Mr Clinton made of his economic package — the speed with which Congress passed his deficit-reduction measures , the positive reaction in the markets — convinced too many that he would turn all he touched to gold . |
| 29 | This shows an irony that although Saint Francis gave all he had to the needy , the church is spending its money on building magnificent and expensive structures instead of giving it to the poor . |
| 30 | All he seemed to be able to concentrate on was the small dimple that appeared to the left of Julia 's mouth whenever she smiled her rather lopsided smile . |