Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His despondent letter to Thelwall was written immediately following an absence of ‘ a day or two ’ , during which , it seems likely , he walked westward into the Exmoor fringes above Porlock , the home territory of his maternal ancestors , and in a lonely farmhouse near Culbone Church sought the isolation he needed to complete Osorio . |
| 2 | In any experience , for instance , involving a man and a difficult horse he wishes to master , the most important element is not the animal itself but the man 's mind ; and especially that part of his mind over which he has no immediately willed or conscious control . |
| 3 | He repudiated the oath by which he had restored to the Holy See the ecclesiastical rights and privileges enjoyed by the emperors and the kings of Sicily and within a few months of his coronation he began to progress down into Italy . |
| 4 | The big bucks are tied up in the options on 500,000 shares of IBM stock he gets to exercise . |
| 5 | erm And erm when he came back after the war , he actually was so much involved on the parliamentarian side he had to leave Oxford during the war , but when he came back he built a school in the city which was actually in the Guildhall courtyard , it was built round the courtyard , and that remained a free school , for the city 's boys right up to the end of the 19th century . |
| 6 | When I was settled at his side he turned to scrutinize me . |
| 7 | He thought of a Socialist future for his half country , and conceived the hope of a job in which he might have the luck to be gripped by some stupendous ire of work , trying to avoid the spectacle of the people around him and in the wet street outside , which pointed out a fraternal indifference in the world that was the last perception he cared to harbor . |
| 8 | Being adept at the set conversation piece he managed to extract the relevant data without ever putting his knife in it . |
| 9 | Tom Hanks had come to the fair with two ageing horses from the manor he wanted to sell and he brought Carrie with him , riding in a light cart behind which were tied the two horses . |
| 10 | ASK Frank Bishop for his tip for the Grand National and his answer will be Direct — to suit the style of football he intends to throw at Margate , visitors to Cressing Road this afternoon . |
| 11 | When high rents and falling prices threatened the farm with insolvency he decided to use the experience he had obtained with domestic animals by training to become a veterinary surgeon . |
| 12 | ‘ If I was a Romany I 'd have ended up fighting Nahum , ’ said Seb , trying not to allow the emotion he felt to show . |
| 13 | Back on Venturous , Phil Andrews again hit the headlines in the early days of the pirate radio ships when , during a routine patrol off the Essex Coast he decided to speak to the Caroline to ascertain if bonded stores were carried . |
| 14 | Having made contact with a group of students at the nearby Architectural Association he went to see them play at the Goings On Club in Archer Street , a tiny place largely frequented by poets . |
| 15 | He was well aware of the depth of the chasm which separated the past from the future he hoped to create , and he was above all a realist , but inevitably the fusing of nearly 600 formerly independent undertakings into a new corporate identity was not painless . |
| 16 | Pinochet , who was still C.-in-C. of the army , was told by President Patricio Alywin Azócar on April 15 that in future he had to give prior notice to the government of any trips abroad . |
| 17 | A glance at the map revealed that there was a short cut down to the Miletti villa , so instead of summoning Palottino he decided to walk . |
| 18 | A : Neutrality concerning each person 's chances of implementing the ideal of the good he happens to have . |
| 19 | It had been far from the capital week he had come to expect from Cowes , what with Willie winning everything in sight , having to make diplomatic speeches to his own nephew about how jolly it was to lose to him , and then just as he got time to drown his sorrows at the Yacht Club he had to come to Broadstairs . |
| 20 | NK : May I ask my Right Honourable friend what club he intends to use on this hole ? |
| 21 | At every stride he has to turn a corner |
| 22 | When the dust settled yesterday Michael Knighton , a thwarted professional footballer who has been elected to the Manchester United board , spoke bitterly of the vilification he claims to have endured since moving in on the club and Martin Edwards , the chief executive . |
| 23 | If the trailer knows that the car he wishes to sell has already been ‘ clocked , ’ the way for him to avoid committing an offence is , not to ‘ clock ’ it further himself , but to give the customer a candid intimation of its falsity , i. e. a disclaimer . |
| 24 | Another man drove into the street , to look at a car he wanted to buy , and left his Peugeot unlocked with the child inside . |
| 25 | As Head of Poetry in the early days of the Third Programme he grew to know Dylan Thomas , Roy Campbell and the post-war generation of poets and writers . |
| 26 | Then the actor told his agent he wanted to see his name up in lights at the cinema . |
| 27 | To make a living he had to sell things over the counter-like his brother . ’ |
| 28 | When he found out his daughter had a stroke he had to come from America and look after her and like then , from then on , he was just like , had that money in the bank , really . |
| 29 | ‘ I ca n't figure out why foreign investment is the battlefield he decided to pick , ’ one official said on Friday . |
| 30 | He felt sure he could sweet-talk Antonio and get the 25 per cent equity he needed to put the new deal to bed . |