Example sentences of "he [verb] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They would n't expect him to go to a Job Centre and sign on . |
| 2 | Codron produced it , but even his links with the producer could n't persuade him to go to a play which ‘ sounded irreligious and immoral ’ . |
| 3 | A farmer and his wife have been teaching their son at home for over two years because they do n't want him to go to a special school . |
| 4 | No I do n't want him to go to a school where there 's a lot of bullying . |
| 5 | Though he reassured him about the boy 's future , his calling Isaac his ‘ only son ’ when he commands him to go to the land of Moriah might well suggest those assurances were empty and meant nothing . |
| 6 | He must be able to stamp his authority not only on his team but on the peloton as a whole , directing the whole tenor of the race before it is time for him to go to the front and win . |
| 7 | It was the experience he gained in Greenock which enabled him to go to the United States and feature so prominently in American deaf education . |
| 8 | Hence the perception that , however hard he tries — and it was brave of him to go to the wall at all — Mr Clinton will always carry this particular cross , and that his relations with the armed services will always be shaped by it . |
| 9 | The following morning he went to Dawson 's house , thereby missing a telephone call from the King 's private secretary asking him to go to the Palace before luncheon ( it is not clear why the message was not passed on ) . |
| 10 | Thus suppose , to take a less bloodthirsty example , that Pooh 's desire for honey makes his belief that there 's some in the cupboard cause him to go to the cupboard to get it . |
| 11 | Over at The Wine Cellar , Keith Meerza , the joint owner , has sat a customer down in the corner and is trying to persuade him to go to the police . |
| 12 | Also , unlike others who had been brought up in more cultured surroundings , it was a rarity for him to go to the theatre and even more of a rarity to go to other forms of public entertainments , including the cinema . |
| 13 | I even tried to get him to go to the studio . |
| 14 | He urged him to go to the local hotel , only twelve miles in the wrong direction . |
| 15 | She was too full of misery to finish and she brushed past him to go to the stairs , not able to face this at all . |
| 16 | I urge him to go to the railway stations each weekend and to get the newspapers that are handed out free of charge . |
| 17 | I asked him to go to the shed and take all my kites away and burn them , which he duly did , in a hollow now called Kite Pyre Dell . |
| 18 | They got him angry / They got him to go to the party ) . |
| 19 | He is engaged in conversation by McKendrick , another participant in the Colloquium , but does not reveal to him that what attracts him to the conference is the opportunity it affords him to go to the World Cup qualifying match between England and Czechoslovakia ( scene one ) . |
| 20 | Trust him to go to the other extreme . |
| 21 | Oh I asked him to go to the insurance company and find out whether I 'm covered with them for having my aerial replaced and I wrote a letter asking if he could be empowered to sign the claim form for me |
| 22 | Well , yes , I mean I can remember having a friend in Oxford who was schizophrenic and to be quite frank he needed to be certified and we could not get him to go to the doctors , and when he did he told sufficient stories that the doctor home with eye drops because he was seeing things . |
| 23 | I said I wanted him to go to an outside hospital , so they took him . |
| 24 | ‘ A pity you did n't get him to attend to the little bitch before , ’ commented Rachel . |
| 25 | His approach to clients was summed up in a remark I overheard him make to a colleague at the bar : ‘ You know me — I believe everybody ’ . |
| 26 | There was Stringfellows ' night club , that appalling leather suit , the friendship with an aerobic gymnast , newspaper photos of him stripped to the waist , the gold earrings , and his nights on the town . |
| 27 | FOLLOWING our revelation yesterday of claims about Di and her friend Major James Hewitt , it was reported last night that a photo exists of him stripped to the waist as he chats to the princess . |
| 28 | In the empty streets we finally flagged down a taxi , prostrated ourselves before him and persuaded him to drive to the hitherto uncharted climes of Muswell Hill . |
| 29 | Paragraph 8. 10 ( c ) of the PAC 's 1981 report , The Role of the Comptroller and Auditor General , stated that the present arrangements for the financial audit of nationalized industries should continue but that the C & AG should have access to the books and records of these bodies in order to enable him to report to the House of Commons ( paragraph 4.16 — 4.19 ) . |
| 30 | The defender is often faced with a claim of exorbitant amount , an agent for the pursuer who is unprepared or unable to quantify the same properly , and a pursuer who believes that his accident will be sufficient to enable him to retire to a comfortable abode in the sun . |