Example sentences of "he [verb] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though arrested in Denmark , Britain , France and Spain for narcotics and arms offences , al-Kassar had made himself too valuable an asset to European and American intelligence agencies for them to allow him to go to waste in prison , so that he went about his illegal business with a brazen assurance matched only among international criminals by his partner , Rifat Assad , younger brother of the Syrian president , who also owned a villa outside Marbella , and whose daughter , Raja , was al-Kassar 's mistress . |
| 2 | The powerful bike between his thighs , the beautiful morning and the prospect of a full week 's work ahead , all made him want to burst with joy . |
| 3 | She wondered if Mrs Gray wanted to be fair to her husband and to avoid mentioning him in a role which showed him having to report to HQ , as it were ; or whether she wanted to be fair to Canon Wheeler , about whom , her tone suggested , she might share her husband 's opinion . |
| 4 | Sometimes , when he thought he might die , as Eileen had died , some deep and insatiable curiosity about life and living in him , some craving to take with him a deeper knowledge of women and their essence made him long to lie in love with her , to taste the sweetness of her mystery , to see the world just once from a vantage point where the lost and lonely flesh that is man and woman comes together in a healing synthesis . |
| 5 | Green , did n't he want to go for grey ? |
| 6 | Did n't he want to go for grey ? |
| 7 | There were other , smaller tasks which he wished to complete : when he had finished the play , he planned to revise for publication the lectures which he had given on education at the University of Chicago . |
| 8 | Yet when his campaign train reached McCarthy 's state of Wisconsin , where he planned to speak in defence of his old chief , he thought better of it and let that guy from the gutter stay on the train . |
| 9 | In fact he returned to Amsterdam , but in 1681 he agreed to serve as leader of the English Sephardi community which had been so generous to him years before . |
| 10 | All the people he goes to meet for dinner and tea . |
| 11 | He expected to act as sponsor to Chou En-lai in the unfamiliar field of international diplomacy , but it was actually Chou who took over centre stage ( as The Times pronounced , 25 April 1955 , ‘ It has been Mr Chou En-lai 's week ’ ) . |
| 12 | He failed to release in time to prevent the towplane from being tipped over into the ground . |
| 13 | If Labov 's interpretations were suspect ( and of course they are not ) , this would not arise from the fact that he failed to test for significance . |
| 14 | He failed to appear at court to answer a charge of inflicting grievous bodily harm which allegedly happened in Durham Prison last July . |
| 15 | A police search is under way for a businessman accused of attempting to export a military camera to the Soviet Union after he failed to appear for committal proceedings at Rugby Magistrates Court . |
| 16 | He failed to appear in court to face four charges of theft . |
| 17 | The trainers loved him and some , like Beamish , took it as a mortal insult when he failed to come in person to minister to their valuable charges . |
| 18 | Er my Lord it 's rather a complicated of transaction and the the essential heading this case was that he failed to advise in relation to title er the person who goes from with respect to a land transaction he 's entitled to expect that the lawyer investigates the state of entitlement to arrange the matter and to explain to the trial exactly what that is , what it is that is portrayed by the state of the title . |
| 19 | Rather than reject Marxism on the grounds that it had been disproved by history , as Merleau-ponty had done , he sought to account for Stalinism through a dialectical analysis of the specific history of the Soviet Union since the Revolution : theory and practice , he argued , had become separated with the result that the former had become ‘ sclerosed ’ while the latter had become ‘ blind ’ and ‘ unprincipled ’ ( I , 50 ) . |
| 20 | If he tried to return to Earth in defiance of his oath he strongly suspected that he might never be allowed to reach the homeworld … |
| 21 | Boldly coloured ties draped Levinsky 's neck ( he sold them on the street ) , his synapses now like two eggs over light , in permanent sizzle , as he tried to move into stride with a young Cassius Clay . |
| 22 | As soon as he realised his mistake he tried to go into reverse , but once America sent troops to Saudi Arabia the dictator was trapped : only then did he make Kuwait the 19th province and drop all talk of withdrawing . |
| 23 | Unless you count the occasion in Turkey when he tried to go to bed with a prostitute while suffering from the pox . |
| 24 | When money became scarce , he tried to go on welfare , but the woman official said , ‘ What 's your problem , Mr Webb ? |
| 25 | The next day he tried to beg for money , but large signs in some villages warned him that anyone caught begging would be sent to prison . |
| 26 | Sergeant Alan King died after being stabbed repeatedly by Vernage as he tried to crawl to safety . |
| 27 | Even those he tried to establish with office girls seemed to founder fairly rapidly . |
| 28 | in Greek mythology , Bellerophon 's winged horse , on which he tried to fly to heaven . |
| 29 | He tried to shout for help , but was too weak to raise even the feeblest of cries . |
| 30 | He tried to run for help straight after the crash but then he saw Jason on the road and collapsed with the shock . |