Example sentences of "he [verb] [to-vb] [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Justice Forbes is examining claims by a Stirlingshire farmer that the former Re-Chem Toxic Waste Incinerator was responsible for him having to destroy of his entire dairy herd . |
| 2 | However , Nellie 's nagging won the day and he agreed to go in his new Austin car and look for Dr Nolan . |
| 3 | He died within a year of taking up his new office , but by then he had successfully completed the first stage of the reduction of Wales which , according to his will , he expected to complete within his three-year term of office . |
| 4 | He had given up writing poetry and had been living the duplicitous life of a critic deciphering his own works , but when he fell in love with Howard 's wife Elizabeth his former self was reawakened and he ceased to believe in his own existence . |
| 5 | The 45-year-old , who worked at Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council from 1977 to 1985 and at Durham County Council from 1985 to 1988 , sparked a nationwide search when he failed to return to his High Farm home on August 24 . |
| 6 | Gavin Hastings ' conversion , allied to his four earlier penalties , pitched Watsonians into a 6-19 advantage into which Selkirk could make no dents by the interval , Jeremy Brett mis-timing two penalties as he sought to build on his initial brace . |
| 7 | He wished he could be alone , he tried to say with his own look . |
| 8 | He tried to add to her full glass . |
| 9 | Or it may have been the sweet tyranny of his mother 's childhood rules , never quite outgrown , which he tried to recreate in his rigid adult life . |
| 10 | She gave him a basilisk gaze and he tried to dispose of his long legs around the legs of the Sheraton chair . |
| 11 | He tried to think of what little he had heard of snares . |
| 12 | After his inspection , he tried to think of something positive to say . |
| 13 | He has to see with his own eyes that the object he takes to be a rough piece of hemp , destined to choke the life out of him , is in fact a string of priceless pearls . |
| 14 | He has to come of his own free will . |
| 15 | He argued that he has to persist with his Euro flops as he tries to qualify for the World Cup . |
| 16 | He says he needs to talk to you first . |
| 17 | Because he 's got a plan of the site so he wants to know with his little squares , what 's what . |
| 18 | As for Mr we 're out of recession are we ? well if that 's an excuse for saying let's close homes well , I think that 's a a terrible shame , all he , the certainty that he wants to offer to our elderly people is the certainty that their home will close and they 'll be thrown out of it . |
| 19 | But as Edward exhausted his foreign creditors he came to rely on his own nobles and the London merchants for loans , and this necessitated a greater sensitivity to the political views and interests of his creditors than his predecessors had had to show . |
| 20 | Dostoevsky had come to a very similar conclusion when he came to write about his four years of penal servitude in Siberia : ‘ I felt that work might be the saving of me , might build my health , my body . ’ |
| 21 | Henry chose England , but because the imperial promise to preserve his territories was broken , he returned to fight for his hereditary claim in 1189 . |
| 22 | Alf was able to play on either flank of our defence and indeed , on occasions early in his career , in various positions further forward , but it was at left-back that he settled to give of his best from 1958 to 1961 . |
| 23 | As they walked on , he started to talk about her future contract , and as he did so he put his arm about her shoulders and held her close . |
| 24 | Talking about him with the others , I did find out that several other people had had the same experience with him as me ; that his lovemaking was done in silence , that he never said a word ( in fact with me he hardly looked me in the eye either , just stared at his own hands as he moved them over my body , not stroking so much as seizing and kneading me , holding me down too ) ; but then later in the night you would wake to hear him talking to himself , lying there fast asleep ( O always asked the men he fucked to stay with him all night long , always ) , fast asleep and talking out loud in the night , talking in a fast , furious , hushed , hollow voice . |
| 25 | The character talks freely about himself , and what he hopes to gain from his new rank . |
| 26 | Would he ever have got to the Olympics if every time he went to train at his local track he got swamped by the waste from a few thousand local toilets ? |
| 27 | He liked to rub in her few months extra from time to time . |
| 28 | Some say — Vic has overheard them saying it — that he tries to compensate for his short stature by his aggressive manner . |
| 29 | It must have been very galling for Major , when he established membership of the A-Team to write the election manifesto , that he had to choose for it those very men who are most likely to profit from his failure . |
| 30 | Such energy as he had to spare from his clerical duties was expended on the cultivation of orchids for which he enjoyed a national reputation . |