Example sentences of "[adv] he [verb] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly he tried to make some sexual advances . |
| 2 | He had memories of Vienna before the 1939 war , and liked people who took care over such things as coffee — proper , expensive coffee — as he tried to himself , however much he decided to ignore most of the facts of being poor . |
| 3 | The same feeling of brooding menace wells up on his version of Presley 's ‘ Heartbreak Hotel ’ , only he decides to leave any anger on hold and transforms the rock ‘ n ’ roll classic into a haunting ballad that sounds as though it came from the pen of Edgar Allan Poe rather than that of Axton , Durden and Presley . |
| 4 | By giving the Secretary of State the power this side of the general election , perhaps he intends to implement such a council after the election . |
| 5 | Perhaps he wanted to feel this moral force of a man was really no better , no finer than him . |
| 6 | So he determined to take that too . |
| 7 | He wants me , she thought with panic , and then hot on the heels of that thought came another ; he wants me because he 's spent the afternoon and evening with the woman he loves but ca n't have , and so he wants to release some of that frustration on me . |
| 8 | So he decided to add another fifteen knots to the approach speed and give it a go . |
| 9 | So he tried to placate this man and he was n't going to be placated . |
| 10 | It was irritating how easily he seemed to do several things at once . |
| 11 | What is interesting about the system is that the driver can decide for himself — by pressing a button — whether or not he wants to use these features . |
| 12 | If ever he manages to do this , he concludes , he hopes he will have a patron of similar eminence . |
| 13 | He was not supposed to know whether the dealer was buying or selling on his client 's behalf , but nonetheless he attempted to guess this from the runner 's facial expression and comments . |
| 14 | But to say the truth , madam , let a man love reading never so well , when once he comes to know this tawn , he finds so many better ways of passing the four-and-twenty hours , that 't were ten thousand pities he should consume his time in that . |
| 15 | Later he came to rationalise that , seeing it as part of a family pattern . |
| 16 | Since the intra-verbal support of the infinitive is a general virtual person , the speaker must also conceive the actual support to which the infinitive 's event is incident and the relation in time between the virtual and actual persons whenever he wants to use this verb form . |
| 17 | So whenever he tried to explain any musical idea he just could n't make his bands understand . |
| 18 | Your child fails to complete a task you have set , e.g. he fails to eat all his vegetables , she wanders away halfway through picking up her toys . |
| 19 | Now he hopes to find some compensation in his forthcoming testimonial match . |
| 20 | Now he hopes to find some compensation in his forthcoming testimonial match . |
| 21 | But now he has to face all those people in the great big world to whom he is just another person , starting quite often with his own brothers and sisters . |
| 22 | Despite his hot streak of goals , Quinn has not yet been on the winning side for the Sky Blues and now he wants to put that unwanted record in the dustbin . |
| 23 | Now he wanted to promote this triple alliance : he told Attlee , ‘ The iron appears to me to be hot . |
| 24 | After attempting to speak to his ex-girl friend on the telephone and finding she was out he decided to have another drink , and then started to think about taking some tablets which his GP had prescribed for him at the time when his girl friend had left him . |
| 25 | Well he started to buy some bloody peppermints erm them bar peppermints erm then he bought hole in the wall , them there round ones . |
| 26 | Eventually he managed to turn this into a special trick , with the cat knocking down a coin each time his owner clicked his fingers . |
| 27 | Then he seemed to get some sort of control over himself again . |
| 28 | But erm when I lost my sight then he had to close that down and come back so we were all under one roof again . |
| 29 | Then he began to see that friendship and love , shown to our marriage partner , our friends and to God himself , are ultimately the most important dimensions of life . |
| 30 | But then he appeared to undermine that position by urging critics to question whether it was in agriculture 's interest to unravel the agreement . |