Example sentences of "[adj] he [vb past] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1895 he went to the new colony of Rhodesia and became a trooper in the Matabeleland regiment of the British South Africa Police . |
| 2 | When Rameshwar read this he went to Tukaram and praised his greatness and goodness . |
| 3 | All this he left to Mother . |
| 4 | This he returned to its position beneath the layer of coffee grounds . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | All this he told to Glorious and his friends . |
| 7 | At this he seemed to liven up , and went back to being Oliver . |
| 8 | This he attributed to the solo exercise . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | In 1876 he decided to be an architect , the following year becoming articled to Basil Champneys [ q.v . ] . |
| 12 | Crown lending was never a major part of Aaron 's business , however , and after 1169 he ceased to be a primary Crown lender , concentrating instead on building up his own vast financial network of agents and clients from his Lincoln base . |
| 13 | In July 1583 he escaped to St Andrews , and set about destroying his tormentors or pardoning some in return for abject submission . |
| 14 | In 1881 he moved to London in an unsuccessful endeavour to enter journalism . |
| 15 | Since he has a very fluent running style , with little lateral arm movement and a very low leg lift , it is often hard to tell when Zarei is weary , but at the 6-Day race on the Gateshead Stadium track last October , it was clear he ran to his absolute limit . |
| 16 | For a brief period after his accession Henry VII allowed the old Exchequer system to revive ; but from about 1493 he reverted to the methods of his immediate predecessors . |
| 17 | At the age of twenty-one he moved to London , working briefly as a civil engineer before joining the Admiralty hydrographers ' department . |
| 18 | About 1630 he moved to Stourbridge , living at Stourbridge High Street at the ‘ brickhouse ’ , the later Talbot Hotel . |
| 19 | In January 1801 he wrote to Charles James Fox , the Leader of the Whig Opposition , enclosing the two volumes of Lyrical Ballads , and asking him to read Michael and The Brothers , not for their poetic merit but because they illustrate ‘ the weakening of the bonds of domestic feeling among the poor ’ . |
| 20 | Appointed in April 1720 he had to be threatened with dismissal by James Craggs [ q.v. ] , the secretary of state , before he would go . |
| 21 | In 1808 he returned to Wavertree . |
| 22 | In 1790 he moved to Wavertree , near Liverpool . |
| 23 | After struggling free he went to nearby Bassetlaw Hospital where doctors closed the quarter-inch deep gash . |
| 24 | At the end of 1684 he returned to England , fully qualified , and was taken on by Dr Thomas Sydenham as an assistant in a busy London practice . |
| 25 | In January 1867 he went to the Paris exhibition as horticultural correspondent for that weekly , as well as the Field and The Times , and started to write his first two books , Gleanings from French Gardens ( 1868 ) and The Parks , Promenades and Gardens of Paris ( 1869 ) . |
| 26 | In 1985 he moved to Corporate Finance as Group management accountant . |
| 27 | His first formal education was received in the reading school kept at Ottery by ‘ Old Dame Key ’ , a relative of Sir Joshua Reynolds , and at six years old he progressed to his father 's grammar school , where he quickly surpassed all his contemporaries . |
| 28 | In 1903 he went to Merton College , Oxford , as one of the first Rhodes scholars and in 1906 he gained a second-class degree in modern history . |
| 29 | You should have told Pike which half he belonged to . ’ |
| 30 | In 1879 he returned to England and began studies at Manchester New College in London . |