Example sentences of "he [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this situation the Commission believes that consideration should he given to the use of a cantor , or animateur . |
| 2 | Later he made to himself excuses for Eden ; that he left Durham young and that his childhood was unhappy . |
| 3 | He was one of the earliest arrivals at Augusta , playing his first practice round on Saturday , which was a direct contradiction of a statement he made to the Augusta Chronical when he said he tried to treat the Masters like ‘ any other tournament ’ . |
| 4 | He tried to set up the League of Princes , an international peace-keeping force aimed primarily against the Turks , and the exhibition shows the route of the journeys he made to other countries to promote the idea . |
| 5 | In the third of our series on major Scottish architects , David Walker describes the career of William Burn ( 1789–1870 ) and the important contribution he made to the planning of the Victorian country house |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | All this on top of the irony of an innocent request he made to a man with a radio listening to the cricket immediately he arrived in England after spending time with his family in Barbados . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The contrast between the two kings was ruefully noted by Louis himself in a remark he made to Walter Map : |
| 11 | That he had on previous occasions overcome his antipathy to women is suggested by remarks he made to others . |
| 12 | Nizan 's exceptionally good grasp of the Spanish political situation was doubtless the product of numerous visits that he made to Spain during 1936 . |
| 13 | He remembered now ; he always felt the same by this stage of every visit he made to the Dysons ' house in the daytime , while the children were about . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The unrivalled versatility of ‘ The Brig ’ was shown by the contributions he made to the solution of a number of machine ciphers during World War II . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ You know as well as any what answer he made to their urging and how fast they dropped it , at least in his hearing . |
| 19 | Will he tell the House a little more about what representations he made to the Government of India on those important matters ? |
| 20 | Will the Minister widen his reply to include funding of the national companies , and in particular will he explain the remarks that he made to the Royal Society of Arts last week , when he speculated on the Government funding the national companies directly ? |
| 21 | Perhaps the Home Secretary will get up to respond on the second point that he made to the Conservative party conference . |
| 22 | Is that what he has been seeking to negotiate in the references that he made to the limitations on deficits ? |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Out through the swing doors he made to the Rendezvous Coffee House . |
| 25 | Doctor the medical expert called on behalf of the defendant , had discussed the question of future care in a visit he made to the plaintiff 's hou home in July this year . |
| 26 | Mr Larkin is haunted by memories of a visit he made to the secluded woods at along with Marie Pettitt , Gary 's mother . |
| 27 | The offer he made to his boardroom colleagues yesterday was 20p a share , 30p less than their original value . |
| 28 | Pity he did n't fulfil a promise he made to Darlington Business Venture when he came up last November . |
| 29 | Perhaps he ought to remember those days and get around to living up to the promise he made to the last Tory conference . |
| 30 | He crosses to his wall safe . |