Example sentences of "he [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , I asked 'im what 'e done in the war an' 'e told me it was no concern o' mine . |
| 2 | ‘ 'E went into the bathroom , and I went . |
| 3 | It finished 'is boxin'. 'E was goin' ter fight fer a title before 'e went in the army . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ My ole man got upset an' 'e told me ter get rid o' the bloody fing before 'e got 'ome from work ternight. 'E works on the trams , yer see , ’ the woman explained . |
| 5 | Thus , shortly after the Electricity Act received the royal assent , in September 1947 , Attlee appointed Gaitskell as Minister in his place , and it therefore fell to him to carry through the Government 's work of nationalisation by completing the appointments to the Boards and the working out of the new relationship of Ministry and BEA . |
| 6 | This also allowed him to carry off the Irish championship … |
| 7 | Anything that would pay enough to live and allow him to remain on the headland to carry on the campaign . |
| 8 | There was good reason for him to remain at the helm now , too : the wind was freshening and veering , so that it was coming close to dead astern . |
| 9 | It may be that the curiosity of Frederick I having a red beard has caused him to remain in the popular imagination : red-headed men and women have many superstitions attached to them , particularly red-headed kings . |
| 10 | Gambling on the dying man being able to comprehend , he had ordered him to go for the destruct button , while he himself had kept Grant occupied by an exchange of fire . |
| 11 | Though he reassured him about the boy 's future , his calling Isaac his ‘ only son ’ when he commands him to go to the land of Moriah might well suggest those assurances were empty and meant nothing . |
| 12 | He must be able to stamp his authority not only on his team but on the peloton as a whole , directing the whole tenor of the race before it is time for him to go to the front and win . |
| 13 | It was the experience he gained in Greenock which enabled him to go to the United States and feature so prominently in American deaf education . |
| 14 | Hence the perception that , however hard he tries — and it was brave of him to go to the wall at all — Mr Clinton will always carry this particular cross , and that his relations with the armed services will always be shaped by it . |
| 15 | The following morning he went to Dawson 's house , thereby missing a telephone call from the King 's private secretary asking him to go to the Palace before luncheon ( it is not clear why the message was not passed on ) . |
| 16 | Thus suppose , to take a less bloodthirsty example , that Pooh 's desire for honey makes his belief that there 's some in the cupboard cause him to go to the cupboard to get it . |
| 17 | Over at The Wine Cellar , Keith Meerza , the joint owner , has sat a customer down in the corner and is trying to persuade him to go to the police . |
| 18 | Also , unlike others who had been brought up in more cultured surroundings , it was a rarity for him to go to the theatre and even more of a rarity to go to other forms of public entertainments , including the cinema . |
| 19 | I even tried to get him to go to the studio . |
| 20 | He urged him to go to the local hotel , only twelve miles in the wrong direction . |
| 21 | She was too full of misery to finish and she brushed past him to go to the stairs , not able to face this at all . |
| 22 | I urge him to go to the railway stations each weekend and to get the newspapers that are handed out free of charge . |
| 23 | I asked him to go to the shed and take all my kites away and burn them , which he duly did , in a hollow now called Kite Pyre Dell . |
| 24 | They got him angry / They got him to go to the party ) . |
| 25 | He is engaged in conversation by McKendrick , another participant in the Colloquium , but does not reveal to him that what attracts him to the conference is the opportunity it affords him to go to the World Cup qualifying match between England and Czechoslovakia ( scene one ) . |
| 26 | Trust him to go to the other extreme . |
| 27 | Oh I asked him to go to the insurance company and find out whether I 'm covered with them for having my aerial replaced and I wrote a letter asking if he could be empowered to sign the claim form for me |
| 28 | Well , yes , I mean I can remember having a friend in Oxford who was schizophrenic and to be quite frank he needed to be certified and we could not get him to go to the doctors , and when he did he told sufficient stories that the doctor home with eye drops because he was seeing things . |
| 29 | This allowed him to go on the offensive , including on issues that Dr Cunningham devoutly wished would evaporate , like that cause célèbre . |
| 30 | His creator had fashioned him from clockwork and set him to go through the motions of living without giving him the actual breath of life . |