Example sentences of "he [verb] [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Contemporaries remember him coming scowling to school after what had clearly been rows with his patron . |
| 2 | She realised that , subconsciously , she wanted him to keep talking to her . |
| 3 | I remember him finding going to the school . |
| 4 | I only got to hear him start talking to your Raymond |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And what did he want coming to this back of beyond ? ’ |
| 7 | He sits whispering to his neighbours while someone else is speaking in the debate . |
| 8 | He avoided going to the prize-giving so that he would n't have to meet her . |
| 9 | Since for most of his reign he avoided going to war , he hardly deserves the reputation for belligerence which contemporaries conferred on him . |
| 10 | He clung shivering to the comfortless bed that seemed now the only tenuous security he had , but he was plucked away from it and hustled through the doorway , still bemused with cold and sleep . |
| 11 | Papa did n't know what to do , and then he got talking to some of his cronies , and he decided on a Grand Scheme . |
| 12 | He got talking to a man called Mac he met while listening to Vivaldi in Regent 's Park and they agreed to try playing something in one of the Baker Street concourses . |
| 13 | There he got talking to a gaunt girl in an ash-stained black smock who claimed to have read his screenplay and who , over glasses of red wine , and later in the terrible pub , told him he was a weakling and a hypocrite with no notion of the ways of men and women . |
| 14 | NORMAN Waller was cleared of murder this week after he admitted stabbing to death a man he believed was trying to break into his neighbour 's car . |
| 15 | Some parasites of insect eggs , for instance , can stop a small population of pests from increasing , so application of a pesticide has to he timed according to the number of the larvae of the pests rather than the number of their eggs . |
| 16 | He tried protesting to Selkirk , who simply struck him across the mouth and pushed him through the metal-studded door . |
| 17 | He had studied and pondered the case , and was immersed in it ; he tried talking to both Marco and Eddie , and pursues Marco for the promise that could save Eddie 's life . |
| 18 | If not , as some changes will be made to its membership after the election , will he consider writing to all Members explaining how the system works — what the Public Accounts Commission , the Public Accounts Committee and the NAO do ? |
| 19 | He stopped talking to me and changed deadlines so they became impossible to meet . |
| 20 | But he notices , it builds up , he starts thinking to himself , they 're always late . |
| 21 | He said to the Thing : ‘ And do you know how much time we have before he starts going to Florida ? ’ |
| 22 | Then as four pints of blood spurted from his gaping wounds , he staggered screaming to the nearby home of 63-year-old Mavis Clark . |
| 23 | Er he mentioned going to Leicester . |
| 24 | Actually there 's Paul , the guy who 'd given me a lift to the concert and , and he mentioned going to the , the film I saw , erm but I knew he was going to the pub , he always goes to the pub afterwards . |
| 25 | He loves chatting to the staff . ’ |
| 26 | And as for those bloody red boxes , ’ he says pointing to the battered containers which deliver official papers to Ditchingham Hall every weekend , ‘ hate 'em . ’ |
| 27 | I felt and slid my arms under Harry 's and with my feet slipping on the muddy bottom yanked him upwards as fiercely as I could and found him still stuck and yanked again twice more with increasing desperation until finally whatever had been holding him released its grasp and he came shooting to the surface , only to begin falling sluggishly back again as a dead weight . |
| 28 | Anyhow , ’ he continued , ‘ the three of us spent the day locked in consultation , as Marc called it , the result being that he came charging to my rescue , routed the two con-merchants , who thought they 'd got me over a barrel , and generally behaved like the perfect human being he is . ’ |
| 29 | At times he advised reverting to a lower potency if the higher potency aggravated ; at other times he advised giving a few doses of a partially similar remedy if any aggravation should occur ; he also suggested administering the remedy in liquid form , giving a few succussions before repeating ( the plus system ) . |
| 30 | Just , well he fancies going to bed ! |