Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | If your father 'e 'ad listened to the nurse and called for the doctor and not for the priest — puh ! ’ |
| 2 | But she did not wake and for a moment Henry was flooded by helpless rage , a feeling that made him want to run to the bedside table , snatch up Elinor 's nail scissors and twist them into her neck , this way and that , gouging out blood and veins . |
| 3 | And at the last him happened to come to a fair green way . |
| 4 | They pictured him lying abandoned to the grip of despair . |
| 5 | She wondered if Mrs Gray wanted to be fair to her husband and to avoid mentioning him in a role which showed him having to report to HQ , as it were ; or whether she wanted to be fair to Canon Wheeler , about whom , her tone suggested , she might share her husband 's opinion . |
| 6 | Contemporaries remember him coming scowling to school after what had clearly been rows with his patron . |
| 7 | She realised that , subconsciously , she wanted him to keep talking to her . |
| 8 | I remember him finding going to the school . |
| 9 | I only got to hear him start talking to your Raymond |
| 10 | They said me and him had to go to the social security the next morning , and if he did n't he 'd be picked up . |
| 11 | He prayed he might be forgiven whatever deficiency in him had contributed to her waywardness . |
| 12 | In 1899 he was a guest at the Wesleyan Methodist Conference and caused the normally sombre gathering to explode in laughter : the speaker before him had referred to himself as ‘ a humble Presbyterian ’ . |
| 13 | Agnes smiled at the old warrior , and then at Husband : by now , her anger at him had distilled to the warming spirit of pure hatred . |
| 14 | For on that Saturday Mr Pozsgay organised a radio interview to tell the world that a party committee working under him had come to the conclusion that 1956 had been a popular uprising , thus ensuring that the terms of reference in Hungarian politics would never be the same again . |
| 15 | This brought to mind Mr Major 's curious pronunciation of such words as ‘ want ’ and the way in which the politicians around him have taken to saying wunt . |
| 16 | Our concern to hold him into God 's truth will be greater than our concern for him to become adjusted to society . |
| 17 | Every troop has a leader and , putting it simply , the leader uses his initiative and the troops under him behave according to his directives and examples . |
| 18 | I told her and mouthed to Nigel who it was , and did he want to speak to her ? |
| 19 | And what did he want coming to this back of beyond ? ’ |
| 20 | His ‘ guys ’ in Lebanon , the Asmar network , were not to be risked on routine intelligence for the DEA , and Coleman had no other contacts there that he cared to expose to the Syrian-backed heroin cartel in the Bekaa Valley . |
| 21 | ‘ Nice boy , ’ he planned to say to Sheila later , ‘ artistic , too . |
| 22 | Once demobbed he planned to go to New Zealand and start a new life . |
| 23 | And Reynolds said he planned to return to indoor competition in the next couple of months and hoped to compete in both the world indoor and outdoor championships . |
| 24 | With this in mind , he planned to return to the project and , in 1978 , funded by the National Endowment for Humanities , the documentation entered its final phase . |
| 25 | Nithard pointed out that what Lothar had done to him was just what he planned to do to Charles . |
| 26 | He said he planned to fly to Libya with leading Scottish defence QC Lord Macaulay to meet the accused men . |
| 27 | Nothing he produced seemed to him genuinely his own work . |
| 28 | He agreed to talk to I Lawrie regarding existing plans . |
| 29 | He agreed to go to Rome himself to try to obtain an acceptable solution . |
| 30 | He agreed to write to the Peruvian Government . |