Example sentences of "he [adv] [adv] [vb past] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 He never left our shores and he only once ventured to cross the border into Scotland .
2 Still the reality he so urgently wanted to communicate seemed to escape him , as if he was distracted by a voice whispering in his ear of what might have been , if only Kee had said yes .
3 I asked him why he so dearly wished to walk in a street as dank as a sewer , and to play by the waters of an oily , rat-infested canal , when we had the exquisite reaches of the Seine at hand , and the gardens of his school friends .
4 Sometimes I understood a few words or phrases ( ‘ Japaner nicht gut ’ , ‘ Demokratie ’ ) but on the whole it was a hopeless conversation just because he so badly wanted to get his meaning across to me .
5 North , the zealous visionary , besotted by his lone struggle against Communism , was so blinded by right-wing hubris that he saw nothing wrong in breaking the laws of the country he so devoutly wished to defend .
6 Tom laughed , of course , and she did n't know if she was pleased or angered that he so often seemed to find her so amusing .
7 For all his long hair , bandeau and earrings which made him look like a weedy Viking , Terry Gill was a very ordinary young man , and pathetic ; pathetic because he so obviously wanted to amount to something and had no idea what .
8 And he just about managed to make out the three words uttered by Sheriff James Farrell : ‘ You are discharged . ’
9 A few weeks after the opening of the play , he once more began to suffer from bronchitis .
10 But he honestly only wanted to defend his title with Williams .
11 He also always managed to see the good side of a person , and would defend them as he saw fit ( ie Rodolpho ) which shows a very christian type of behaviour .
12 Indeed , he probably even helped to draft the document ’ Britain 's New Deal in Europe ’ .
13 He then frantically tried to revive her before leaving her face down in a copse .
14 He then twice conspired to overthrow the junta , and is unofficially considered to head the paramilitary death squad , the White Warrior Union .
15 On 24 December 1662 Howard was elected a fellow of the Royal Society ; he almost immediately began to participate in its proceedings , taking a special interest in agrarian and technological matters .
16 During the strike Donald Trump , a New York real estate magnate , announced that he no longer wished to purchase Eastern 's shuttle services to Boston from New York and from Washington DC .
17 Even during the period of the " phoney war " he had fantasies of the house being bombed , and in June 1940 he asked Herbert Read to store in the country some of his books and clothes in order to prevent them from being destroyed in an air-raid.When on 7 September the " blitz " against London did begin , he decided that he no longer wished to stay in the capital .
18 He held onto his back as they leapt from shelf to shelf and soon he no longer had to shut his eyes as they flew through the air .
19 Hamilton 's death in 1895 brought the Headmaster a rise in Salary to 150 , as he no longer had to fund his predecessor 's pension .
20 Dr Neil had the baby upside-down and was smacking him to make him cry — having been born , he no longer seemed to want to survive in the harsh world outside his mother 's warm body .
21 Having shown the sudden , deep interest , how could Mungo now claim that he no longer wanted to visit the stable ?
22 But after August 23 he no longer wanted to continue ; the present was best forgotten as soon as it slipped into the past .
23 He no longer bothered to talk to her when she brought him his coffee .
24 As a child Vidor had hated the Military Academy at San Antonio and he very much wanted to make ‘ an honest war picture ’ that would correct the excessive jingoism of the normal Hollywood war film .
25 What a pity he never even seemed to notice she was there !
26 He never even came to see me , never wrote .
27 Maggie began anxiously but he never even bothered to answer .
28 He never once tried to contact me .
29 In all these encounters , direct or indirect , he never once hesitated to draw on the capital of his own history .
30 Although Steven Morrissey 's general depression , disgust and horror was certainly fuel for his songwriting ( he wrote constantly , almost as if in anticipation of the forthcoming band ) , he never really thought to question why he wrote .
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