Example sentences of "he [adv] [verb] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He rarely seemed either to have the time or the inclination to return to Brougham . |
| 2 | He claimed he only did so to seal the sale of a barbecue which was damaged . |
| 3 | He soon learns either to give you misleading information or delay sending in the document . |
| 4 | He once arranged unofficially to take part in a raid from his station at Hemswell in Lincolnshire in a Hampden of No 61 Squadron . |
| 5 | His total of 275 was 13 under par , four outside the record , and he also failed narrowly to become the first man to score in the 60s in every round . |
| 6 | He also promised unilaterally to reduce Soviet strategic nuclear warheads to 5,000 , rather than to 6,000 as required under the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty ( START ) [ see pp. 38320-21 ] ; challenged the USA to open negotiations to effect deeper cuts , i.e. a further 50 per cent reduction , in the strategic nuclear arsenal of both countries ; and called on the USA to join the Soviet Union in imposing a ban on nuclear testing for at least a year and to renounce the " no first use " nuclear strategy . |
| 7 | He also worked hard to promote the formation of a Baptist church in St Helens . |
| 8 | He also strove staunchly to strengthen relations between the Poles living in Poland and those scattered abroad in the 13-million-strong Polish diaspora — links which had been almost destroyed during the Cold War period by Communist authorities , oblivious to their potential value to both sides . |
| 9 | ( He also borrowed heavily to fund other projects : a vast aluminium-smelting complex at Slatina , for instance , that threatened to consume as much electricity as the domestic consumers of Romania ! ) |
| 10 | He also reacted quickly to save after both McLoughlin and Clarke had seen efforts cleared off the line by Houghton . |
| 11 | The assumption here is that ‘ when [ a driver ] happens to feel subjective risk or fear he often tends immediately to eliminate this feeling by certain behavioural changes ’ ( Summala , 1976 , p.239 ) , a major cause of accidents is thus that drivers have too high a ‘ subjective risk threshold ’ . |
| 12 | In childhood he acquired fluent French , a language he often pretended hardly to speak . |
| 13 | He now had nowhere to go , despite overtures from all three political parties . |
| 14 | Indeed , he frequently managed both to play the French and the Americans off against each other and then to blame them when anything went wrong . |
| 15 | He then proceeded tactfully to admonish the theorists of botany in order to protect the practitioners of gardening . |
| 16 | He then rose rapidly to become chief conductor at La Scala , Milan , and later became musical director of the London Symphony Orchestra and , for the past three years , of the Vienna State Opera . |
| 17 | It is likely that he did express a preference , for although his collapse was dramatic enough for premature reports of his death to reach at least two cities , he then rallied sufficiently to add codicils to his will . |
| 18 | It is likely that he did express a preference , for although his collapse was dramatic enough for premature reports of his death to reach at least two cities , he then rallied sufficiently to add codicils to his will . |