Example sentences of "he [verb] [to-vb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is now scared to use outside loos and says he has lost work with bosses who wo n't let him go to find other facilities . |
| 2 | He planned to pursue integrative schemes as a private citizen and it was thought doubtful whether he could achieve the same effect in that capacity . |
| 3 | In December 1990 , the Energy Minister , John Wakeham , had said that he planned to approve renewable-energy projects amounting to between 150 and 200 megawatts of electricity output in 1991 . |
| 4 | But after Monaco , a real miracle did occur : Stanley said to forget the rest of the payments to the team — as long as he agreed to stay two seasons more . |
| 5 | Finally , he agreed to meet various costs and charges of the countess ' children and grandchildren at her request . |
| 6 | Finally , he agreed to meet various costs and charges of the countess ' children and grandchildren at her request . |
| 7 | At the same time , communicating with Yeltsin behind Yazov 's back , he agreed to send some tanks to the White House . |
| 8 | He agreed to station Iranian guards both inside and outside the walls of the compound in the future . |
| 9 | Despite his personal battle against deafness he fought to help battered wives and rape victims . |
| 10 | All the week the receipts had been unusually high , but this evening he expected to break all records . |
| 11 | Was it sheer bravado on Obispal 's part that he disdained to fire explosive bolts at that creature which itself could not manipulate a gun ? |
| 12 | I had written to Joe Ackerley about Dana , and how we were writing poems together , and he asked to see some examples of this unusual collaboration . |
| 13 | Guardian reader Peter John , who has holdings in Dumenil 's Swiss , French and Spanish funds , claims he failed to receive any dividends in June and November as he expected . |
| 14 | When he failed to promote any women into his first cabinet he insisted he would only appoint on merit . |
| 15 | He failed to interest American industrialists and in 1886 came to England , thereafter the centre of his working life . |
| 16 | Mr Field lost the nomination to a local Transport and General Workers ' union official , Mr Paul Davies , because he failed to secure sufficient votes in the trade union section . |
| 17 | Another deaf man , a David Bedwell who had partial hearing , enlisted in the Army Service Corps as a driver , and his deafness cost him his life when he failed to hear three challenges as he was approaching the gates of a barracks . |
| 18 | Further , he failed to get satisfactory answers to questions which he asked pupils about the work in hand and why they were doing certain things . |
| 19 | President Richard von Weizsäcker of West Germany paid an official visit to Poland on May 2-6 during which he sought to dispel Polish anxieties about German unification . |
| 20 | He tried to spot any spy-flies lurking in this foyer , little spies which so recently had been his own to command , till they were stolen . |
| 21 | He stepped back , pausing to think , but the more he tried to invent reasonable explanations , the more he came back to the obvious truth : someone had put out the light and locked him in . |
| 22 | He tried to take two dogs on . |
| 23 | Charles the Bald though he tried to regulate some forms of relations between landlords and peasants was in no position to intervene in those relations extensively . |
| 24 | The police have already recorded one of their officers being attacked , when he tried to arrest some youths . |
| 25 | He tried to apply psychoanalytic findings to political issues , and in particular to trying to change sexual understanding and morality among young people , both students and young workers . |
| 26 | Lord Owen spoke during a break in talks at Medjugorje , a Bosnian Roman Catholic pilgrimage town , as he tried to end eight days of fighting between Moslems and Croats in the city of Mostar . |
| 27 | In 1538 he was named a justice of the peace for Wiltshire , an appointment he retained until his death , and in March 1539 , during an invasion scare , he helped to muster able men in Malmesbury and elsewhere in the county . |
| 28 | He helped to assemble geological specimens on microscope slides , and in addition attended classes in chemistry and other subjects at the Institution . |
| 29 | To do that he has to consult historical sources — the original instruments existing in museums and contemporary drawings and paintings — and from them work out the construction and draw up a plan . |
| 30 | To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what plans he has to consult local authorities on housing requirements for ex-service personnel . |