Example sentences of "he [verb] [to-vb] [conj] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again , he failed to appreciate that the conspicuous consumption which was the fruit of successful emulation was not as invariably absurd as he made out , or that in the course of history world-wide they were responsible for the greatest architecture and other manifestations of high art . |
| 2 | He tried to pretend that the nasty pink thing he had to strap on did n't exist , that it had nothing to do with him . |
| 3 | My father preferred and still prefers to screw up his eyes and lean forward should he need to see whether the pink or blue is about to be potted . |
| 4 | My father preferred to screw up his eyes and lean forward should he need to see whether the pink or blue was about to be potted . |
| 5 | He began to see that God was not a tyrant but a loving Father ; he began to see that the Christian life was not a series of impossible demands to satisfy the whims of an unreasonable employer ; he began to see that he was welcome because of who he was , and not on the basis of what he could achieve . |
| 6 | In his songs he appears to realise that the dear old Blighty that he glorified has been reduced to a sorry Union Jack T-shirt on a frustrated football supporter . |
| 7 | Using his earlier experience , he felt , when he moved in , that he needed to gauge where the new school should be in five years ' time . |
| 8 | Instead they had assured the purchaser that the papers were in order , which he took to imply that the necessary certificate would be present . |
| 9 | At this moment he managed to convey that the one thing requiring attention was comparatively unimportant , a short communication on a sheet of quarto-sized white writing paper . |
| 10 | He meant to imply that the Old King trusted William , that they were close politically , not sexually . |
| 11 | Forcing the subject to use an acoustic strategy , by making the task one in which he had to indicate whether the terminal phoneme of one letter 's name was the same as that of another ( e.g. B and G have the same terminal sound , B and M do not ) , still led to a RVF advantage . |
| 12 | When Galileo compared the rate of fall of different materials he was attempting to answer a fundamental question : he wanted to know whether the gravitational attraction on different materials was the same . |
| 13 | Interviewed later on BBC Newsnight he refused to accept that the German election results invalidated the case for introducing PR in Britain . |
| 14 | He fails to mention that the two studies recorded in common from at least two folia in the ventral paraflocculus and he fails to cite the fact the individual Purkinje cells in these folia show the same effects reported by both groups . |
| 15 | Regan is right to the extent that to talk of recognition in such circumstances does have a purpose , as it would of a dog 's staccato barks and tail-waving on hearing its master 's voice , but he fails to realise that the same form of words now features in a related , but different , language-game . |
| 16 | He intended to demonstrate that the two could coexist , and that from their coexistence could flow something unique and beautiful . |