Example sentences of "he [verb] [to-vb] [coord] [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a strong khaki handkerchief he kept his money , the handful of coins he had managed to save or pilfer and hide away in spite of Sweetheart 's threats that she would always find him out if he tried to lie or keep wicked secrets from her . |
| 2 | It teaches a child to let go of his own will for the sake of others , with whom he has to live and let live . |
| 3 | The immediacy of this world of conflict demands that regardless of his proximity to the metaphorical dirt he is controlling , he needs to erect and maintain social and psychological barriers and separate himself conceptually from the ‘ prig ’ . |
| 4 | How he yearned to attack and injure those burlier youths who stood watching , grinning . |
| 5 | In any case , although some of the speeches became tougher ( in tabloid terms he began to slam and lash Labour ) , his delivery has never matched the words . |
| 6 | It was like a valedictory speech , possibly the last big statement he would utter as Leader of the Opposition , the opportunity to deliver a personal justification of what he did to try and ensure that Labour 's values joined together with the popular vote to save the party from the political wilderness . |
| 7 | No , he had to try and keep Bartocci happy . |
| 8 | He learns to analyse and recognise possible danger points . |
| 9 | His dedication to the subject was complete and he continued to write and give high quality papers at various conferences . |
| 10 | In Histoire , the narrator is engaged in the elaboration of descriptions which are suggested by a set of postcards : he attempts to evoke and organize these fragments of the past , aware that it is ultimately unknowable and that reconstructions are inevitably incomplete and distorted by the passage of time . |