Example sentences of "he [vb past] to [adv] [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And yet there were times , fleeting but strangely precious times , when he seemed to momentarily forget the war of nerves raging between them . |
| 2 | Well , at that time my best pal went to the pit , his mother would n't let him enter in th for scholarship , but he did happen to come here for , Well , he seemed to always get a day 's day release from the year dot , I think , and er eventually he got some A levels . |
| 3 | He vowed to continuously challenge the Government . |
| 4 | There was a long , emotionally charged silence as they stared at one another , before he began to roughly shrug the jacket from his broad shoulders . |
| 5 | I found out later it was the weekend that he decided to definitely make a run for the presidency . |
| 6 | Due to such severe deprivation of mental stimulation , he had to continually wear an iron mask to prevent him from tearing strips off his own sides with his teeth . |
| 7 | Laura glanced through her eyelashes at the thick dark hair curling over the edge of his collar , the relaxed set of his broad-shouldered figure as he continued to idly watch the passing scenery , while he talked so calmly and dismissively about a marriage which , it was quite clear , had never been of any major importance in his life . |
| 8 | Still , if he wanted to formally emphasise the gulf between them , it was all to the good . |
| 9 | Paul Walsh , senior nursing officer in the psychiatric unit of Wexham Hospital in Slough , was sacked recently when he refused to forcibly inject a patient who was regarded as lucid by the nurses . |