Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adv] [verb] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The River Police Headquarters Building was not far from Southwark Bridge , and Redpath felt he 'd better call there to put his problem , before getting involved in something that might turn out not to belong to his division at all . |
| 2 | He felt clear headed enough to tackle the remainder of the long journey north . |
| 3 | He did not come home to sleep . |
| 4 | So he did not wish greatly to eat , although he did , and he kept the same singing pitch running through his being as he talked quietly with Tuathal and Eochaid and the others about what was to be done ; which meant what Siward would do . |
| 5 | He did not attempt now to touch her . |
| 6 | But he did n't want just to go back to Hereford Road and drink it on his own . |
| 7 | They were carefully guarded , as if they hid secrets he did n't intend ever to reveal to anyone . |
| 8 | He had even come there to look at the river at low tide , it was in Ellen Ash 's Journal , they had brought a picnic of chicken and parsley pie . |
| 9 | Mr Arnold questioned why he had not tried harder to set up a system for receiving such information more swiftly . |
| 10 | Boy was not surprised at the kind of sex they had , because he had already learnt never to assume that people made love in the same way as they talked . |
| 11 | One thing was clear , though , from that stealthiness of Adam 's : he had n't come here to ask Ben Hesketh for the cup . |
| 12 | He had n't come here to bring her a birthday present ! |
| 13 | Although he had always worked hard to maintain good relations with the tsar and the central government , he was not a professional courtier . |
| 14 | By twelve o'clock he had usually earned enough to live on for the day . |
| 15 | But everyone in the Zoo knew of his love for this particular eagle though all through the years he had resolutely refused ever to handle her . |