Example sentences of "[vb past] he [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.

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1 What 'd he ever do to ya ?
2 But Shaw had not been well and Charlotte felt he urgently needed to be revived with country air .
3 Did he have any questions about our parish , or did he just listen to what information was being given ?
4 Did he ever give to the poor ?
5 did he ever explain to you what the urgency of having to have the article in on the following Saturday was ? , did he ev , did he ever tell you anything ?
6 He could go , but did he really want to ?
7 Did he never come to the Tabard again ? ’
8 Had he not travelled to parts of Kurdistan where no white man had ever trod ?
9 Brittain believes that Top Class would have caused Nashwan and Cacoethes a lot more problems had he not gone to the front so early .
10 Naturally , Greenidge tried to emulate Richards which , when things went well , was fine , but when they did not it meant that , for a while , he gained a reputation for not being over-reliable ; perhaps he suffered from trying to hit the ball too hard , for there were plenty of people who felt that he would have been a better player had he not tried to ‘ bury the ball into the wall of some distant building ’ ( his own words ) at every opportunity .
11 Nor had he ever intended to .
12 When had he ever had to be pricked into action before ?
13 Why now , when all this time he 'd stuck rigidly to her real , rather austere christian name , had he suddenly switched to the softer-sounding Rory ?
14 Sir Rhodes said he also objected to the Labour Party ‘ playing politics ’ with the vote when it should simply be about the Maastricht Treaty .
15 JOHN SALAKO last night shrugged off an injury scare and said he desperately wants to be part of England 's World Cup plans against Turkey at Wembley next week .
16 ‘ You said he still wants to be boss . ’
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