Example sentences of "[vb past] he [verb] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Sometimes , when he thought he might die , as Eileen had died , some deep and insatiable curiosity about life and living in him , some craving to take with him a deeper knowledge of women and their essence made him long to lie in love with her , to taste the sweetness of her mystery , to see the world just once from a vantage point where the lost and lonely flesh that is man and woman comes together in a healing synthesis . |
| 3 | The powerful bike between his thighs , the beautiful morning and the prospect of a full week 's work ahead , all made him want to burst with joy . |
| 4 | As the Clinton cavalcade approached the Old State House , on the steps of which he first announced he intended to run for President , a black choir sang America The Beautiful . |
| 5 | Actively employed at sea for nearly twenty years , for the most part in Far Eastern seas which can legitimately be called romantic , Conrad had no need to add extra colour to his raw material , nor did he have to go beyond fact to find episodes , incidents and nuggets of action to transfer to fiction . |
| 6 | Not once in the long years had he attempted to get in touch , to correspond with a daughter he had been all too ready to abandon . |
| 7 | Oliver said he wanted to go to nursery today because I got some yellow cards you know they 're Daffy Duck |
| 8 | One day my son said he wanted to stay at home with me . |
| 9 | He said he wants to stay in football . |