Example sentences of "he [vb past] [to-vb] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd danced here on the same legs that now lay dead beneath him , while Sartori had told him how he planned to take this wretched Dominion , and build in its midst a city that would shame Babylon ; danced for sheer exuberance , knowing his Maestro was a great man , and had it in his power to change the world . |
| 2 | Kinnear , who said he expected to make one more signing this week-end , looked forward to Jones the manager with a wry smile . |
| 3 | The British driver , whose Formula One career ended in acrimony when he failed to agree new financial terms with Williams , could not resist a jibe at old rivals Senna and Frenchman Alain Prost , who has taken his place at Williams . |
| 4 | Sadly , during his attempt to secure a direct line or three from Ms Sigourney Weaver he failed to grasp some obvious points . |
| 5 | Where he was intellectually confused was that he failed to see any close connection between the economic stance of his Government and its industrial problems . |
| 6 | He failed to announce any new security initiatives in his Commons statement on the atrocity , in which two soldiers died , and his words were dismissed by Strangford MP John Taylor as ‘ bland generalities ’ . |
| 7 | So whenever he tried to explain any musical idea he just could n't make his bands understand . |
| 8 | Nonetheless , he tried to find some comforting way to explain it : maybe the Israelis had set up some sort of contingency fund . |
| 9 | He tried to molest some poor girl at the Shakespeare School and got thrown out . |
| 10 | Suddenly he tried to make some sexual advances . |
| 11 | He was nonetheless a key figure in setting up Britain 's statutory system of buildings conservation , when he helped to create that invaluable archive the National Buildings Record ( now shortly to be banished to Swindon from its present sensible location next to English Heritage ) , which he joined as deputy director in 1941 . |
| 12 | He came to realize that traditional accounts of science , whether inductivist or falsificationist , do not bear comparison with historical evidence . |
| 13 | Consequently , in a spirit of scepticism , he came to distrust all dogmatic claims to knowledge . |
| 14 | He seemed to recall some casual acquaintance saying something recently about market gardening . |
| 15 | He seemed to find that adequate gratitude . |
| 16 | He seemed to find this next bit difficult to say . |
| 17 | It was only after his second marriage , when he was able to share his life with another human being , that he began to take any real satisfaction in his life 's work . |
| 18 | He himself was considered too old for general naval duties so he began to teach these young folk to be first class fishermen . |
| 19 | The winter of his second year of university he began to do some special research on the Gulf for a project he 'd been assigned . |
| 20 | To defy the man , to show him , he began to run this last lap . |
| 21 | He declined to give any personal details about the pair apart from saying they were from the United Kingdom . |
| 22 | He declined to give any official view on the situation except to say : ‘ Any Marxist must say it 's a good thing that nobody has been hurt and we should give thanks to the police . ’ |
| 23 | Well he started to buy some bloody peppermints erm them bar peppermints erm then he bought hole in the wall , them there round ones . |
| 24 | The story continues with an account of how the next day when he started to get upset Little Turtle remembered what the tortoise had told him so he closed his eyes , pulled in his arms close to his body , put his head down so his chin rested against his chest , and rested for a while , until he knew what to do . |
| 25 | Domestically he needed to integrate twelve million refugees into German society and to demonstrate the benefits of the ‘ social market ’ over the SPD 's preference for nationalisation . |
| 26 | Until he was granted a discharge , any income which a bankrupt earned in excess of what he needed to cover basic living expenses had to be paid to the trustee in bankruptcy . |
| 27 | He had come , he believed , because he needed to discuss certain administrative problems with Frederica . |
| 28 | There was a long silence , during which he decided to leave this unpromising subject . |
| 29 | So he decided to add another fifteen knots to the approach speed and give it a go . |
| 30 | He decided to make one more call — and crashed his two-seater Cessna plane into her house . |