Example sentences of "he [verb] [to-vb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He recalls the efforts he made to acquire a p-38 : ‘ A Lightning that I had been pondering about for some time was owned by a chap called Merril Wayne , who ran an airline called Wayne Airlines up in Anchorage , Alaska . |
| 2 | Why does he want to marry a white woman ? |
| 3 | L. MacNeill Weir , in his book The Tragedy of Ramsay MacDonald , was the main critic , suggesting that MacDonald was an opportunist , a liberal rather than a socialist , that he schemed to ditch the Labour government , and betrayed the Labour Party . |
| 4 | I refused to believe that he chanced to have the same name as the previous tenants of the cottage — unless he himself was the previous tenant , and had for some reason returned to Moila without wanting to be known ? |
| 5 | He chanced to find an identical skull in Cambridge which , to his surprise , came not from Egypt but from the Chatham Islands , near New Zealand . |
| 6 | So he swooped to catch the falling child , drive away the wolf or restore the horse — all these miracles being depicted in small panels round the central figure of the Saint . |
| 7 | ’ He turns to face the elder policeman . |
| 8 | Now they got much the same thing for the dinner , but if the prisoner had got any money of his own , and if he cared to contribute an extra sixpence he got a hot meal at midday . |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't know how he planned to explain the false name and why he was living at Pen House , ’ said Holmes . |
| 10 | Now he planned to do the same with the female cub , who had been given the most unleopard-like name of Harriet . |
| 11 | He planned to catch the 6 pm flight back to Munich . |
| 12 | On the Monday he phoned bosses back in England to tell them he would not be coming back , and that he planned to build a new life with their money . |
| 13 | After dinner he planned to make a proper start on sorting out the contents of the house . |
| 14 | If he ran into Eleanor he planned to blame the general editor and make soothing noises . |
| 15 | He agreed to do the first voyage there and back before receiving payment , as long as Ralemberg agreed to underwrite the voyage , using his house as collateral . |
| 16 | Charles , who had a taste for mechanical devices , commissioned Gionallo Torriano of Cremona to repair it , but owing to corrosion he found that this was impossible and he agreed to make a similar instrument . |
| 17 | Terry Long was always a welcome visitor to Selhurst Park , but it was an enormous pleasure to everyone connected with Crystal Palace when he agreed to make a public return here in October 1984 to give recognition to Jim Cannon , who is the one man to have played more games for us than Terry himself did . |
| 18 | He agreed to summon the Scottish parliament , that it should consent to Mary 's marriage with the dauphin Francis and to her departure for France , and that Scottish castles should be handed over to the French — as indeed Dunbar and Blackness were . |
| 19 | He could see the horizon just above the shining disc of his propeller , and he fought to drag the leaden nose up to it . |
| 20 | He invented the morning press conference for the purpose of calling an afternoon press conference to say he expected to make a shattering announcement later in the day . ’ |
| 21 | He applied to join the Oratorian Congregation newly formed by John Henry Newman ( later cardinal , q.v. ) , but was turned down in March 1847 . |
| 22 | And presently revulsion gave way to indifference : he ceased to see the flaunted female bodies of advertisements and magazines because they had nothing to do with him , they were irrelevant . |
| 23 | It was not Srikkanth 's day : he recovered to open the Indian reply , but was unhappy at being given out caught behind off McDermott ( Healy 's 100th Test catch ) , indicating that the ball hit his forearm . |
| 24 | But he recovered to plant a glorious chip over Kelly from 20 yards . |
| 25 | The bungled pit stop dropped Hill from second on Prost 's tail to fourth and , although he recovered to grab a brilliant third place behind the Frenchman , it was difficult for him to hide his disappointment . |
| 26 | He failed to notice the borrowed things that the girls wore , looking around him instead in dumb bafflement : it was a wedding day , a shining moment in his life , and , except for the dressed children , it could be any ordinary day . |
| 27 | Yates blamed father Mike 's coaching after he failed to reach the 1500 metres final . |
| 28 | In doing so , he failed to appreciate the political impact on the British , who had put their faith in Skybolt as a way of maintaining the greatest measure of independence for their nuclear deterrent that was practicable at reasonable cost . |
| 29 | Dr Jones , of Coggeshall , was found guilty by the General Medical Council last month , which heard that he failed to detect a serious case of appendicitis , prescribing instead indigestion and ulcer tablets . |
| 30 | With backing from Citrine and Self , Smith tried to exercise such leverage , and ( when he failed to persuade the existing boiler manufacturers to respond ) proposed to attract new firms to the industry by the promise of orders to keep them in business . |