Example sentences of "[vb past] he [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Francis believes he could become Alan Shearer 's partner in the England side , and rated him highly enough to agree a new , four-year contract in the summer worth £4,000 a week . |
| 2 | I disabused his mind on this point by telling him about the fresh pug marks I had seen at the pool , and advised him very strongly to collect his buffaloes and return to the village . |
| 3 | The Foreign Office advised him very strongly to take no part in the transaction , but this was in fact an encouragement . |
| 4 | On their third night she ordered him quite roughly to bring his legs closer together and found a way of rubbing herself against his knee while sucking at his neck that made him shudder . |
| 5 | He was a primitive misogynist whose hatred of the wife of one of his friends led him quite seriously to plan her murder . |
| 6 | But his enthusiasm for system led him too easily to assume that a native administration duly gazetted was a native administration actually functioning as a responsible organ of local government , and this set a limit to his achievements in reform . |
| 7 | Charlotte , her eyes on Albert who was taking her attention , asked him rather half-heartedly to desist , but the boy threw the ball out of the window . |
| 8 | I knew him well enough to spot that . |
| 9 | Already she knew him well enough to realise he would never make threats he was n't prepared to carry out . |
| 10 | Florian broke off , looking astonished , and Maria knew him well enough to realise that his attention had made a rare leap outward . |
| 11 | But Amanda knew him well enough to suspect that he might be bluffing . |
| 12 | She knew him too well to imagine he 'd let her get away easily , even when he learned there was money . |
| 13 | Wycliffe had scarcely spoken since leaving the hall and Scales knew him too well to try to involve him in conversation . |
| 14 | This superb American served the Allies on the sea and in the post-war relief organizations till disgust at the treatment of the Poles by the Western Alliance sent him back home to lick his wounds and write an epic book . |
| 15 | First Parker put him clear only to see him miscontrol and allow Gunn to save — and then Gunn kept out his close-range diving header . |
| 16 | Theodore Mann , co-founder and producer of Circle-In-The-Square since 1951 , had seen Dustin on stage and wanted him badly enough to have dismissed two directors instead of the actor . |