Example sentences of "he [verb] [to-vb] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He failed to release in time to prevent the towplane from being tipped over into the ground . |
| 3 | He failed to appear in court to face four charges of theft . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | When he moved to stand in front of her , barring her path , she looked down , terrified that he would read her fear on her face . |
| 7 | And just think of the calculations involved when a fielder runs to catch a cricket ball — he does n't necessarily realise he is doing it but he has to work out how high the ball is , how fast it is travelling , its precise direction and how quickly he has to run in order to catch it . |
| 8 | A reader from a common law background is often puzzled by this , because it looks like the single concept of ‘ service ’ with which he is familiar ; he has to keep in mind the civil law distinction between more and less solemn modes . |
| 9 | I wonder if he could tell us whether he is prepared to amend the legislation in this fashion , and perhaps tell the House exactly what other amendments he needs to make in order to take account of changing circumstances . |
| 10 | In a sibilant , fluttering voice he read his reply from the throne in Annamese , but his delivery , unlike the Frenchman 's , was hesitant and nervous and once or twice he stopped to swallow in mid-sentence . |
| 11 | He promised to keep in touch , to send monthly payments if he possibly could . |
| 12 | His life becomes even more complicated though when he starts to fall in love with his best friend 's lover and learns that his ex-wife is about to publish an expose of their marriage . |
| 13 | ‘ He means he wants to stay in bed with Mary . ’ |
| 14 | He said he wants to stay in football . |
| 15 | He also said this kind of feeling is why he wants to stay in football as long as possible . |
| 16 | Because it could n't wait until lunchtime and that , that 's perfectly understandable because he wants to feel in control of what 's going to happen to some degree , rather than just be at the mercy of someone else 's position . |
| 17 | He loves to ride in front of his father . |
| 18 | When he had shut the door of her bedroom behind them both , he came to stand in front of her and stroked her face with one finger , tracing her eyebrows , the semi-circular curve of the bones under her eyes , the diagonal lines of her cheekbones , and her lips . |
| 19 | To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what further action he intends to take in connection with the announced closure of Ravenscraig . |
| 20 | Her father 's loving- ( or lying- ) competition , designed though it may be to give her the best part of England ( which he is also giving himself , of course , since he intends to live in retirement with her ) , and revealing , in a way , his love for her , is nevertheless so constructed that she would have to compete with hypocrisy in order to win . |
| 21 | In view of his earlier encouraging remarks , will he now confirm that he intends to vote in favour of the private Member 's Bill on Friday ? |
| 22 | He began to cry in earnest , abandoning himself to a storm of weeping , sobbing against his folded arms . |
| 23 | Between the meetings he began to operate in earnest , seeing individually spending ministers worried that Concorde would drain funds from their budgets . |
| 24 | When he started to dress in front of the fire the two older girls turned away and when he looked for a collar stud the boy ran to attend . |
| 25 | In his horror at what happened in the House of Commons , he started to speak in favour of the motion . |
| 26 | For Ice-T to get away with all this requires major screen charm — something he appears to have in abundance . |
| 27 | He needed to fall in love again . |
| 28 | Gradually , he discovered what he needed to do in order to meet his responsibilities as governor . |
| 29 | Not once in the long years had he attempted to get in touch , to correspond with a daughter he had been all too ready to abandon . |
| 30 | It was only when nine bottles disappeared in one morning that he decided to lie in wait for the thief . |