Example sentences of "he [verb] [to-vb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Green , did n't he want to go for grey ? |
| 2 | Did n't he want to go for grey ? |
| 3 | Why should he want to die in Palestine — away from his family and people ? ’ |
| 4 | ( He turns to look at Fateha ) Where do you live , er … |
| 5 | ‘ Nice boy , ’ he planned to say to Sheila later , ‘ artistic , too . |
| 6 | Once demobbed he planned to go to New Zealand and start a new life . |
| 7 | To show the world how many princes felt it worth their while to dance attendance on him , Henry invited them and also the King of Navarre to a court he planned to hold in Limoges at the end of the month . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He drew up a very elaborate Writer 's Guide to explain what he had in mind to the authors he planned to canvass for Doctor Who . |
| 10 | Nithard pointed out that what Lothar had done to him was just what he planned to do to Charles . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He said he planned to fly to Libya with leading Scottish defence QC Lord Macaulay to meet the accused men . |
| 13 | He agreed to go to Rome himself to try to obtain an acceptable solution . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He goes to live in London with Herbert Pocket , and is turned into a gentleman , living an expensive but futile sort of existence , and becoming ashamed of Joe and his village origins . |
| 16 | All the people he goes to meet for dinner and tea . |
| 17 | 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 ’ ) . |
| 18 | As Dr. Bonnard had gone over to Rendlesham Hospital he asked to speak to Mr. Malone . |
| 19 | He failed to release in time to prevent the towplane from being tipped over into the ground . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ I have attempted to see Queen Yolande to ask her why she did not send out a search-party for the King when he failed to arrive at Kinghorn Manor . |
| 22 | So he did , and sick indeed he was , for Brother Richard found him grey and shaking on his bed , when he failed to attend at Compline . |
| 23 | He failed to appear at court to answer a charge of inflicting grievous bodily harm which allegedly happened in Durham Prison last July . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He failed to appear in court to face four charges of theft . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 ) . |
| 29 | As he sought to negotiate with Aguinaldo , Florendo , the director of the civil relations office of the Armed Forces of the Philippines and a former friend of Aguinaldo , was taken hostage along with three other members of the arresting party . |
| 30 | Knighton is ready to offer the Manchester United boss a new deal on the 50.6 per cent shareholding which he sought to buy from Edwards for £10m , and which is now the subject of a damaging legal wrangle in the High Court . |