Example sentences of "he [verb] [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coleridge recognises the power and excitement of this world , but it is in the second stanza , when he delves into the folds of this metaphorical brain that we see him striving to express the very essence of creativity . |
| 2 | We watch him trying to master the pure theory of swimming — he has no intention of ever setting foot in the water . |
| 3 | L. MacNeill Weir , in his book The Tragedy of Ramsay MacDonald , was the main critic , suggesting that MacDonald was an opportunist , a liberal rather than a socialist , that he schemed to ditch the Labour government , and betrayed the Labour Party . |
| 4 | So he swooped to catch the falling child , drive away the wolf or restore the horse — all these miracles being depicted in small panels round the central figure of the Saint . |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't know how he planned to explain the false name and why he was living at Pen House , ’ said Holmes . |
| 6 | If he ran into Eleanor he planned to blame the general editor and make soothing noises . |
| 7 | He agreed to summon the Scottish parliament , that it should consent to Mary 's marriage with the dauphin Francis and to her departure for France , and that Scottish castles should be handed over to the French — as indeed Dunbar and Blackness were . |
| 8 | He could see the horizon just above the shining disc of his propeller , and he fought to drag the leaden nose up to it . |
| 9 | He applied to join the Oratorian Congregation newly formed by John Henry Newman ( later cardinal , q.v. ) , but was turned down in March 1847 . |
| 10 | And presently revulsion gave way to indifference : he ceased to see the flaunted female bodies of advertisements and magazines because they had nothing to do with him , they were irrelevant . |
| 11 | It was not Srikkanth 's day : he recovered to open the Indian reply , but was unhappy at being given out caught behind off McDermott ( Healy 's 100th Test catch ) , indicating that the ball hit his forearm . |
| 12 | He failed to notice the borrowed things that the girls wore , looking around him instead in dumb bafflement : it was a wedding day , a shining moment in his life , and , except for the dressed children , it could be any ordinary day . |
| 13 | In doing so , he failed to appreciate the political impact on the British , who had put their faith in Skybolt as a way of maintaining the greatest measure of independence for their nuclear deterrent that was practicable at reasonable cost . |
| 14 | With backing from Citrine and Self , Smith tried to exercise such leverage , and ( when he failed to persuade the existing boiler manufacturers to respond ) proposed to attract new firms to the industry by the promise of orders to keep them in business . |
| 15 | Andrea de Cesaris reads the bad news , he failed to pre-qualify the new Jordan . |
| 16 | We issued a summons and he failed to pay the full sum on time . ’ |
| 17 | He failed to make the necessary adjustments to his style of leadership — most obviously , to create some kind of transmission belt between himself and the nation . |
| 18 | But despite leading after the first round with a 71 he failed to make the four-round cut . |
| 19 | Harry lost the sale because he failed to recognise the well-used ‘ Krunch ’ technique in negotiation . |
| 20 | On reaching Khiva , however , he failed to convince the local khan that Uzbek goods ought to travel due west instead of north-west to Astrakhan . |
| 21 | And finally , thought Ian as he walked up through the Cathedral stairs from the crypt office , what does the Bishop want two of after Evensong and why did he put the phone down on me when he failed to get the odious Williams ? |
| 22 | He got to buy the lovely a present . |
| 23 | He worked and worried about this long before he got to play the old man . |
| 24 | This Eliot had taken from his reading of anthropology , as would become clear from his later social writings , and he sought to preserve the physical and spiritual bonds of his culture in the city of London . |
| 25 | In explaining how he managed to escape active military service during the war by signing on for an officers ' programme , Mr Clinton apparently omitted to mention that he had already received his call-up notice when he sought to join the Reserve Officers ' Training Corps . |
| 26 | In short , he sought to restore the Holy Roman Empire of Germany , Burgundy and Italy . |
| 27 | As a practical clinician he sought to describe the normal and the pathological without resorting to either the abstractions of galenism or the incomprehensible mythological and numerological symbolism of contemporary alchemy . |
| 28 | Above all he sought to dismantle the traditional peasant commune . |
| 29 | The motive force behind all of Peter 's reforms was the greater glory of the Russian state , and to this end he sought to harness the entire human and material reserves of his extensive kingdom . |
| 30 | By eliminating all theological and metaphysical elements from his work , he sought to challenge the prevailing constitutional orthodoxy which was founded on the natural rights of the citizen and the inalienable sovereignty of the state . |