Example sentences of "he [verb] [to-vb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , too , Colin Watson was particularly adept in the creation of the detective he chose to investigate , or struggle with , the curious crimes he made to happen in everyday Flaxborough . |
| 2 | Well , I say , he tend to go at eleven and three , so think about it . |
| 3 | And Reynolds said he planned to return to indoor competition in the next couple of months and hoped to compete in both the world indoor and outdoor championships . |
| 4 | When the Shah realized that his hosts family was at such risk , said Marenches , he agreed to leave within three weeks . |
| 5 | He agreed to talk to I Lawrie regarding existing plans . |
| 6 | He offers to return at eight . |
| 7 | The minister did not introduce the anticipated stringent spending cuts , apparently under pressure from the PSOE , but said that the government would continue to use high interest rates to restrain domestic demand , which he expected to fall by 3.2 per cent in 1991 compared with 4.7 per cent in 1990 . |
| 8 | It was normal , moreover , as in earlier generations , for a diplomat going to one of the more out-of-the-way capitals , if he expected to stay for any length of time , to equip himself with a mass of essentials which might be difficult or impossible to obtain at his destination . |
| 9 | He failed to respond to increased doses of cyclosporin , up to 150 mg twice a day . |
| 10 | Afterwards , oesophagoscopy was repeated twice as he failed to respond to conservative management . |
| 11 | In fact these lectures offered an elegant and lucid exposition of educational theories and assumptions ( he had been exercised by this topic since the early forties ) and although he failed to arrive at any conclusions he suggested that none could in any case be reached . |
| 12 | He paced his talk well , and his use of live models caught the attention , but he failed to capitalise on this by describing exactly what the models were demonstrating . |
| 13 | AFTER paying disability insurance premiums for six years , a 55-year-old part-time magistrate 's claim was refused because he failed to apply within 60 days of leaving his job . |
| 14 | He failed to win in three starts and was particularly disappointing when runner-up here back in February . |
| 15 | Before the war Lionel Curtis had published an ambitious book entitled Civitas Dei ( 1934–7 ) in which he sought to prove in three volumes that the British Commonwealth was no less than the ultimate expression in the international social order of the basic principles of Christianity , or , to summarize , ‘ simply the sermon on the mount translated into political terms ’ . |
| 16 | He sought to show by ingenious argument that it must be false because he could find thought experiments which circumvented it . |
| 17 | as he tried to explain in rhyming verse |
| 18 | An unidentified East German , arrested in a crackdown on corruption as he tried to flee with more than half a million marks ( about £180,0000 ) , has hanged himself in his cell . |
| 19 | An unidentified East German , arrested in a crackdown on corruption as he tried to flee with more than half a million marks ( about £180,000 ) has hanged himself in his cell . |
| 20 | While an angry woman in a cardigan sadly toasted herself a crumpet by the jet of a gas f ; re , he tried to shift to another topic . |
| 21 | He tried to slip in unnoticed but it was too late . |
| 22 | He tried to brake with this ice-axe but started turning great cartwheels , bouncing all the way down . |
| 23 | As it was he tried to think of other things . |
| 24 | He tried to think of other names , and remembered one ; Olivia . |
| 25 | Mr Spong is currently overseeing the closure of the Interchurch Media Programme ( IMP ) , which he helped to found in 1977 . |
| 26 | With all of these writers the technical , and apparently neutral , quality of their specialist , language is used to give greater weight and universality to arguments about literacy and objectivity which , when analysed closely , can he demonstrated to rest upon social and ideological presuppositions . |
| 27 | He has to rely on three small robots , or drones , Huey , Dewey and Louie , whom he programs to help him . |
| 28 | He has written novels and travel books set in Latin America , Africa , the Caribbean , India and Europe ; what he has to say about any country is worth reading . |
| 29 | I look forward to hearing from the hon. Gentleman how he will deal with the complaints that I expect he will receive from his constituents , when he has to explain to those employed at Guy 's hospital why the Labour party 's policies would deny that hospital the opportunity to increase staff pay by £6 a week . |
| 30 | It is true , as Mr Chedlow has stressed , that he has not got as many years before him through which he has to live with this discomfort , pain and impairment of movement . |