Example sentences of "he [verb] [to-vb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Unless you 're like my Uncle Joe — a fox got his best foot , 'e 'ad to have a wooden leg , 'e was livid . ’
2 He thinks that he can lure me into making a statement that will have him attempting to give a poor man 's reading of ’ Erskine May ’ and saying that he wants me to lay the document before the House .
3 Why does he want to marry a white woman ?
4 On the Monday he phoned bosses back in England to tell them he would not be coming back , and that he planned to build a new life with their money .
5 After dinner he planned to make a proper start on sorting out the contents of the house .
6 Charles , who had a taste for mechanical devices , commissioned Gionallo Torriano of Cremona to repair it , but owing to corrosion he found that this was impossible and he agreed to make a similar instrument .
7 Terry Long was always a welcome visitor to Selhurst Park , but it was an enormous pleasure to everyone connected with Crystal Palace when he agreed to make a public return here in October 1984 to give recognition to Jim Cannon , who is the one man to have played more games for us than Terry himself did .
8 He invented the morning press conference for the purpose of calling an afternoon press conference to say he expected to make a shattering announcement later in the day . ’
9 But he recovered to plant a glorious chip over Kelly from 20 yards .
10 Dr Jones , of Coggeshall , was found guilty by the General Medical Council last month , which heard that he failed to detect a serious case of appendicitis , prescribing instead indigestion and ulcer tablets .
11 Clearly unnerved by the physical presence of Mark Hateley , he failed to clutch a looping cross by Robertson .
12 But he failed to achieve a clean sweep of the end-of-season awards .
13 Encouraged by the new legislation , he sought to become a big player on the local production scene .
14 John , 43 , whose weight has dropped to 8st 12lb , said that he tried to live a normal life for as long as possible .
15 He tried to sing a great deal , but it was difficult to hear what .
16 And , since you asked , she once went for a policeman with her stilettoes as he tried to bundle a black man into a car outside a dance hall on the bottom of the Tottenham Court Road ( derogatory remarks in that department were still more likely to earn a black eye than a black look in The Bar ) .
17 When he tried to construct a few sentences in his mind — excusing himself — excusing Rose — they did n't sound lucid .
18 Not least of this chairman 's social misdemeanours was that he tried to introduce a special charge for members who missed the meeting , but who came to the pub afterwards : ‘ Imagine it : jackboots in the YCs ! ’
19 Scott Reading was the focal point of a close finish as he tried to protect a five shot lead over the closing three ends after fantastic work by Paul Maynard 's rink .
20 He tried to start a new conversation .
21 PC Peter Betts was on a training run when he crashed into a hedge as he tried to avoid a head-on collision with a lorry .
22 His propaganda was often at its most effective in personal abuse , and at its weakest when he tried to expound a political theory .
23 Roger was prepared to co-operate with the subsequent regime of Simon of Montfort — in December 1264 he helped to arrange a temporary settlement with the Marcher barons — but he was not one of the bishops suspended from office after the battle of Evesham .
24 At Ashness Bridge , one of the most frequented sites in the Lakes , he helped to launch a major programme to combat the erosion caused by the pounding of millions of visitors ' feet over the years .
25 First he has to create a neutral police force .
26 However , he has to take a complete rest for the next few weeks .
27 Hence , to reflect Renaissance preoccupations adequately he has to include a wider variety of genres — and a wider variety of poets , for that matter — than the traditional canon allows .
28 Alongside the challenges of the Social Charter and the Community Charge he has to keep a firm grip on the Government 's sponsored schemes .
29 To do that , he has to get a new constitution adopted which would abolish the existing parliament .
30 Man walks home and the man 's depressed , he walks like this he has to buy a new pair of trainers on the way home cos he 's dragging his feet on the floor so much .
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