Example sentences of "he [verb] [to-vb] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why does he want to marry a white woman ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | After dinner he planned to make a proper start on sorting out the contents of the house . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | But he recovered to plant a glorious chip over Kelly from 20 yards . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Clearly unnerved by the physical presence of Mark Hateley , he failed to clutch a looping cross by Robertson . |
| 10 | But he failed to achieve a clean sweep of the end-of-season awards . |
| 11 | Encouraged by the new legislation , he sought to become a big player on the local production scene . |
| 12 | John , 43 , whose weight has dropped to 8st 12lb , said that he tried to live a normal life for as long as possible . |
| 13 | … He tried to sing a great deal , but it was difficult to hear what . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | 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 ! ’ |
| 16 | He tried to start a new conversation . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | His propaganda was often at its most effective in personal abuse , and at its weakest when he tried to expound a political theory . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | However , he has to take a complete rest for the next few weeks . |
| 22 | Alongside the challenges of the Social Charter and the Community Charge he has to keep a firm grip on the Government 's sponsored schemes . |
| 23 | To do that , he has to get a new constitution adopted which would abolish the existing parliament . |
| 24 | For a start he has to find a receptive female — not always easy with animals as solitary and spread about the forest as orangs . |
| 25 | DES WALKER knows he has to make a quick impression for his new club , Sampdoria . |
| 26 | Now that prices have fallen , as gold prices rose , he stands to make a pretty profit . |
| 27 | I do n't know but an ordinary barge used to have a little wooden crate and he want to have a little tank , they put a fixed charge on of two and six pence that 's what they done . |
| 28 | The detective on the other hand , immediately sets out to reduce these culturally created separations , for he needs to negotiate a statistical reality with the ‘ dirty prig opposition ’ . |
| 29 | That is probably why he needs to hold a general election , to get his clothes on the right way . |
| 30 | We will be able to provide the equipment he needs to lead a normal life , and we know he 'll want for nothing in the future . ’ |