Example sentences of "and he [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He turned to find the President , Max Klein , leading his party up the aisle and he hastened to take his own seat . |
| 2 | However , this was clearly not the moment in which to tell his dearest Laura that she looked magnificent when she was angry , and he hastened to set the record straight . |
| 3 | I had an old camping van that I lived in during tournaments , and he chose to go with me in it for a meal in Chinatown in Liverpool . |
| 4 | Monika asks : ‘ Do I answer ‘ Sorry darling , but Daddy is a priest and he chose to put God and his Church before you ’ ? |
| 5 | Everyone had to bring a cloth , bucket and duster and he guaranteed to provide a few large bottles of cheap wine and a cheap and cheerful meal like a curry or a paella . |
| 6 | He does rather qualify his view where he later considers that the present case is not ‘ an appropriate case for seeking to advance the frontiers of the law of negligence ’ , and he seeks to confine the decision to its own particular facts . |
| 7 | And so Jesus seeks this woman out because he loves her , and he seeks to communicate with you and with me , because he loves us ! |
| 8 | And he proceeded to do so , off the top of his head at considerable length , to the admiration of all present . |
| 9 | Simmons ( 1978 ) noted that geographers had taken little notice of the wave of concern for environment which peaked about 1972 and he proceeded to argue in favour of a humanistic biogeography ( see p. 124 ) . |
| 10 | And he proceeded to tell what he is doing now . |
| 11 | On 16 October 1991 , the trial judge ruled that the intended evidence was admissible and he declined to exercise discretion not to admit it . |
| 12 | And he thinks to hold Tracy Castle for the King , now that my brother … ’ |
| 13 | Christie 's mouth was now quite dry , and he had to gather saliva before he could speak . |
| 14 | He took it in the pub and he got three quarts of beer ; and he had to lay a penny down and bought me a bottle of pop . |
| 15 | Father used to do that , he would sit in the evening then and he had to scratch on this b it was a like a tin plate with a black sort of area to scratch |
| 16 | But not out yet , his savaged leg : and he had to turn — the door opened in on him — and Anton , sprung as a cat ; this opening , what he had sought , again flung himself at the foreman , who , caught by surprise , new horror , staggered back so that both of them , locked as one , a horrific beast , fell out against the far wall , the urinal , where : so long ago , as aeons past , Parker had first made his move . |
| 17 | He had the sensibility to see what war now really meant , and he had to power to explain it . |
| 18 | And he had to say something on the bloody tape did n't he ? |
| 19 | He was a mechanic in the Royal Flying Corps in France during World War One and he had to patch the planes whenever they got smashed up or shot down . |
| 20 | But down came melancholy like a guillotine and he had to wake up before the steel cut the quivering cold sweaty flesh . |
| 21 | And he could n't get no petrol for it and he had to call A A out . |
| 22 | He had to meet Martin at four o'clock and he had to kill time till then . |
| 23 | ‘ So , by the time he had made one broom the floor of the hut was covered in bits of twigs , and he had to use the broom he 'd just made to sweep the floor of his hut clean before he could start making the next broom . |
| 24 | George took early retirement at the age of 59 , and there 's no doubt that he felt he had been pushed — he had loved his job as a laboratory manager for a large company , but the firm was making massive redundancies , and he had to go . |
| 25 | The man might have seen us , Vern and me — he was trying to do a rough count , I could see his lips — but there were some screaming kids trying to push in behind the Germans and he had to go and sort them out . |
| 26 | Lumberjack came leaping around his front wheel , and he had to go slow . |
| 27 | ‘ The finger got stuck inside his nose , ’ Matilda said , ‘ and he had to go around like that for a week . |
| 28 | And after that he was er T B and he had to go in hospital . |
| 29 | Oh we used to have phosphate and sulphur , potash , coal , granite you name it anything , general cargo we 've had , loaded everything , even dead bodies , we sent , there was one young , one young person , he got drowned up the coast there and they and he had to go back to Holland and they brought that from out the warehouse and put it on the stern of our ship , his coffin , they sent that back and they erm export er pigs to Poland , all live pigs , pedigree pigs . |
| 30 | It was not easy to climb along it and he had to go slowly . |