Example sentences of "he [adv] [verb] [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He felt strange being with someone like me who was open with him yet did n't want to be involved . |
| 2 | I knew he 'd used firearms in the past and because he was on the run from prison he obviously did n't want to be rearrested . |
| 3 | He suddenly felt farcically drawn to Simon 's Prunella , which seemed a sign of health if nothing else . |
| 4 | as if he suddenly did n't want to be here at all . |
| 5 | He just does n't seem to be clicking . |
| 6 | No , only about I 'd say late twenties Ed , you know , do know what it was though , he never had a drink he just sat there talking to himself , having a good chat to somebody , aye |
| 7 | What amazes me though he just do n't seemed to of . |
| 8 | It did not take Hugo long to decide that the boy was wilful : he could learn , he just did not want to . |
| 9 | Fretting that he still had not written to Liza , he proved to be a difficult patient in more ways than one . |
| 10 | One might point out that this morning he issued to the press a 20-page document which he still has not come to the House to answer for . |
| 11 | Maidstone had now stepped up to the bar beside Sandison but he still did not look to be at ease . |
| 12 | She was two years older than him , and a thousand miles away at a girls ' school in Gloucestershire , and on the rare occasions when they met he hardly dared even speak to her ; but Richard was always in love with someone and his passions were all the more intense for being largely fantasy . |
| 13 | He said hardly anything , I knew he really did n't want to be with us ( with Caroline ) but he 'd caught us up ; he ca n't have spotted from behind who we were , he was obviously going the same way . |
| 14 | As we know er Darwin published his great work in eighteen fifty nine cos he had to , he really did n't want to but was forced , but in eighteen seventy one he published another important book called the Descent of Man or Evolution in Relation to Sex and in this book Darwin established a principle , which a which at the time he was widely criticized and ridiculed and this was the principle of female choice . |
| 15 | He simply does not need to be loved , apparently , whether by his relatives or anyone else ; he does not even , at all reliably , want it . |
| 16 | But he simply does not come to grips with the genuine political and cultural difficulty of establishing effective institutions for research in applied sciences , such as agriculture and medicine , which can not be seeded entirely by individual commitment and talent . |
| 17 | He simply did not want to be solemn . |
| 18 | He evidently did n't want to be seen . ’ |
| 19 | But later in the day , after most of the press had gone , he actually came over to speak to me . |
| 20 | Goodness knows , you hear somebody saying sometimes , goodness knows why he should suffer like that , he never did any harm to anyone . |
| 21 | His success rate was obvious by the number of struggling competitors , many of whom he subsequently bought out to add to his ever growing empire … |
| 22 | He certainly did not seem to be missing her and , unless someone else mentioned her , he never did . |
| 23 | He certainly did n't appear to be overburdened with guilt about leaving the rest of his crew to do all the work . |
| 24 | He certainly did n't account to her for his ! |
| 25 | But he definitely does n't get to me ! ’ |