Example sentences of "[conj] he [verb] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's actually back at the working class Blackburn Rovers he managed before that , where he had to scrape for money and look for bargains . |
| 2 | He says the ball is now in their court , but that he hopes to return to science with the company . |
| 3 | If Labov 's interpretations were suspect ( and of course they are not ) , this would not arise from the fact that he failed to test for significance . |
| 4 | Er my Lord it 's rather a complicated of transaction and the the essential heading this case was that he failed to advise in relation to title er the person who goes from with respect to a land transaction he 's entitled to expect that the lawyer investigates the state of entitlement to arrange the matter and to explain to the trial exactly what that is , what it is that is portrayed by the state of the title . |
| 5 | He did so now , read it , and was so disturbed that he had to drop into Cat 's Coffee Shop to sit down . |
| 6 | But the Old King rejected this , saying that he refused to act under pressure of this kind . |
| 7 | She was furious that he refused to talk about religion except in terms of duty to her parents ; what she wanted was a discussion of Peter Abelard and an immediate place in a convent . |
| 8 | It was only when nine bottles disappeared in one morning that he decided to lie in wait for the thief . |
| 9 | In view of his earlier encouraging remarks , will he now confirm that he intends to vote in favour of the private Member 's Bill on Friday ? |
| 10 | Those leaving the Cabinet , besides Thatcher , were Cecil Parkinson , who indicated that he intended to retire from Parliament at the next general election , and Lord Belstead who was appointed to a non-Cabinet post . |
| 11 | Soon after the toppling of Aoun , Hrawi announced that he intended to put in place a security plan for the whole of greater Beirut and start the process of disarming the militias . |
| 12 | In a national broadcast President Mobutu Sese Seko announced on Dec. 4 that he intended to stay in office beyond his seven-year mandate . |
| 13 | Zantford Granny Granville was a motor mechanic who decided that he wanted to get into aviation , so offered to work as a mechanic at East Boston Airport in exchange for flying lessons . |
| 14 | At one point , John decided that he wanted to learn about music , although in fact he newer acquired much technical knowledge of the subject , and could not read a score . |
| 15 | It 's just that he wants to let off steam , and you 're the only person he can lose his temper with . |
| 16 | Beyond that he has to rely on hand tools — planes , chisels , reamers , scrapers and the odd bicycle inner tube ( ‘ great for holding a psaltery in shape while working on the joints ’ ) . |
| 17 | Agnew knows that he has to prove to manager Kenny Dalglish not only that he can make a comeback but also that he can do his stuff at the highest level . |
| 18 | The Englishmen gave Paddy a good hiding and made him so he had to stay in bed for a week . ’ |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | And after that he was er T B and he had to go in hospital . |
| 21 | He collapsed at Debbie 's on Wednesday night , well he fell , bumped his head sort of fall down so the doctor come yesterday , tt , and he had to stop in bed two or three days and go at the doctor 's for ten minute appointment and he bloody test and to see why he 's lost so much weight cos his legs are like that . |
| 22 | He became a model landlord , a horticulturalist ( he won a gold medal from the Royal Society for some successful experiments with a variety of potatoes ) and he began to put into practice some of the notions of public service which he felt appropriate to his station in life . |
| 23 | But the A-level student , who wants to be a doctor , ran into trouble when one event bombed and he began to slip into debt , owing hundreds of pounds . |
| 24 | Dr Stroud , 37 , who is head of applied physiology at the Farnborough establishment , has frost-bitten fingers but should suffer no longer-term problems , and he hopes to return to work as soon as possible . |
| 25 | She did n't dare go in : he was such a light sleeper , and he seemed to know by instinct when his mother was in the same room . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , legislation still required his sanction , and he continued to preside over cabinet meetings . |
| 27 | The cloud base reduced further , and he decided to climb to safety altitude , along what he considered to be a safe track . |
| 28 | Terry B says he did n't think he was hitting the bottle but there 's one side of you that takes over and he started to slide down hill … he became and realised it was time to get real with himself and he has n't had a drink since march |
| 29 | Almost all of Bailey 's time now is spent with commercials , and he wants to move into feature films . |
| 30 | And he intends to call for loan schemes in a bid to make safety equipment available to everyone . |