Example sentences of "he [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a bunch of others voices inside him clamouring to be heard ( Dieter — the clipped-toned Kraftwerkian presenter of German youth show , Sprockets ; the maniacal owner of the Scottish gift shop , All Things Scottish — motto , ‘ If it 's not Scottish , it 's crap ! ! ! ’ ) , does he feel , the inevitable film sequel notwithstanding , that Wayne 's just about past his sell-by date ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | His father wanted him to go to Harvard Business School . |
| 4 | I told him to go to hell ! |
| 5 | If it had been any priest other than Father Devlin he would have told him to go to hell and mind his own business . |
| 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 | Although Haworth had intended to make a career in the chemical industry , he won a scholarship which enabled him to go to Gottingen for postgraduate work . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | For him to go to Stuttgart he would have had to pay his own way ( I was gaining only a pittance from athletics at this time ) . |
| 10 | The apparent cause was his father 's attempt to force him to go to church . |
| 11 | The Lord spoke to a nightwatchman in the port of Valparaiso in a dream , instructing him to go to his pastor and tell him to gather his most spiritual people together to pray every day . |
| 12 | ‘ His father is arranging for him to go to London . |
| 13 | He was anxious for further treatment , and Dr. Prior arranged for him to go to Kings College Hospital in London where treatment introduced by the celebrated Professor Koch was under trial . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I did n't want him to go to residential school at all . ’ |
| 16 | On the other hand , on a different occasion she expressed feelings of depression and powerlessness in the face of professional opinion , conceding that she might allow him to go to residential school if it could be shown that it was in his best interests . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | His new friends urged him to go to France , where he could do effective political work among the thousands of Vietnamese the war had brought to Europe to fight as soldiers , in the labour corps , and as civilian employees replacing the French who were fighting . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | But I remembered I 'd told him to go to bed ; he 'd be asleep by now . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | She promised Louis all the money she had earned , and asked him to go to his cousin who would contact the SOE reseau . |
| 24 | I said I wanted him to go to an outside hospital , so they took him . |
| 25 | Even in the evenings , he crafted his ships while Uncle Philip and Finn made puppets until it was half past eight and time for him to go to bed . |
| 26 | ‘ I still think you should try marrying Peg , ’ Fred said , starting for the door and giving Arthur as sharp a seizure as he had ever had of longing and hatred for an ally who was deserting him to go to sleep . |
| 27 | And he went and told them how necessary it was for him to go to Canada , in the interests of the firm . |
| 28 | I even tried to get him to go to the studio . |
| 29 | ‘ They 'll tell him to go to hell . ’ |
| 30 | It was Morris who encouraged him to go to London , recommending him to J. D. Sedding [ q.v. ] , the church architect . |