Example sentences of "[adv prt] [subord] he [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps you really wounded his pride when you turned him down so he wants to see you humiliated . ’ |
| 2 | Ray , who runs a local lost and found bureau for the National Petwatch organisation , took the dog in while he tried to trace the owner . |
| 3 | He shouted her name , but she only let him in after he threatened to kick down the door . |
| 4 | The officer was run down as he tried to wave Haytons motorcycle into a layby on the A5 near Weedon in Northamptonshire . |
| 5 | Norman Dale , 50 , was struck down as he tried to pick up a cup of tea . |
| 6 | Islanders also staged an unprecedented protest demonstration in St Helier on May 13 , during which the Lieutenant-Governor of Jersey , Air Marshal Sir John Sutton , was shouted down as he tried to explain the decision . |
| 7 | And when it was not shouting him down as he tried to suggest that the powers of the courts were adequate , the conference heard Mr R. A. Butler pledge himself to a new building programme of short-sharp-shock Detention Centres . |
| 8 | I can only get in when he forgets to lock the door . |
| 9 | The worst mistake is to leave clothes near the patient when he is unattended : he may fall over if he tries to put them on by himself , as he may not yet have realized that he can not balance and move normally . |
| 10 | This is not only likely to be painful for him , but it undermines his stability , so that he can only walk slowly , with constant concentration , and he is much more likely to fall over if he has to change direction or if he is distracted . |
| 11 | The Rangers defender slipped and fell over as he went to make a routine interception and Atkinson advanced forward to place the ball through Roberts ' legs into the net . |
| 12 | One part-time farmer was killed when struck by a falling tree during a storm while a forestry worker died after a section of a felled tree trunk apparently rolled over as he attempted to handle it . |
| 13 | She spun round , eyes wide , ready to fight him off if he tried to kiss her again . |
| 14 | Hope had set him off because he wanted to think something over . |
| 15 | When , in the opening scene , McKendrick tries to initiate a new topic , by referring to the " fictions problem " ( p. 46 ) , Anderson fails to take it up because he fails to realise that McKendrick is referring to the paper which Anderson himself is going to give . |
| 16 | She did not look up as he struggled to open the door and stepped inside , where he stood perfectly still , hardly daring to breathe for fear of dropping his awkwardly held gift . |
| 17 | ‘ Doc … tor … ’ he croaked , his mouth seizing up as he tried to speak . |
| 18 | Lapsing into silence , she sipped her now unwanted coffee and only looked up when he came to sit opposite her , a large plate of bacon and eggs before him . |
| 19 | But Mr Kowalski trips up when he tries to get a bit too popular , as in another Capriccio release , ‘ Plaisir d'amour , ’ in which he sings clichéd salon music ( CD 10 324 ) . |
| 20 | It all came back once he began to think about it . |
| 21 | In a strong khaki handkerchief he kept his money , the handful of coins he had managed to save or pilfer and hide away in spite of Sweetheart 's threats that she would always find him out if he tried to lie or keep wicked secrets from her . |
| 22 | He said : ‘ Straight away Mr Mellor phoned his secretary to find out if he needed to go back . |
| 23 | One senior detective said : ‘ We 'll probably never find out unless he decides to tell us ’ ( Sun ) . |
| 24 | Yet , Jesus seeks her out because he wants to demonstrate to her that he loves her ! |
| 25 | The Scottish National Party 's vice-president , Andrew Welsh , challenged Mr Smith last night to spell out whether he intended to exempt Scotland from his ‘ neo-Tory policies ’ , which were designed to win votes in the south of England by taking his Scottish voters for granted . |
| 26 | He watched William 's face , wondering if he 'd forgotten , or blocked it out as he appeared to have blocked out so much else . |
| 27 | Another seeking a management post in Saudi Arabia knocked 10 years off his age but was caught out when he had to hand in his passport . |
| 28 | The camera panned back as he prepared to play . |
| 29 | She knelt before the fire , facing Raynor now , leaning her head back as he began to explore her body , feeling his hands , tentatively at first and then growing more assured , sliding over her shoulders and her breasts … |
| 30 | She could see his old confidence flooding back as he began to realize that everything was working out very conveniently … . |