Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adv] [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He recovered sufficiently to carry on racing — although the car required rewelding ! |
| 2 | He failed conspicuously to do so and continues to side-step any commitment to taking the effective steps which many senior military experts believe could at least limit the damage , by calling from time to time for a mere tightening of sanctions against Serbia . |
| 3 | He sought only to take up the challenge they had thrown down in their fight against Fascism and Britain . |
| 4 | He tried unsuccessfully to sniff back the tears as he watched Yanto race back towards the docks . |
| 5 | Although he tried hard to do so , Richard could never see how anyone could live without things in working order . |
| 6 | He moved quickly to cut short any illusions that they might have about possessing an independent authority or having de Gaulle in their debt . |
| 7 | Sammy scampered leisurely in front of him while he stopped intermittently to pick up sweet chestnuts on the way . |
| 8 | ‘ He came here to get away from all women . |
| 9 | He could have forced the window in time , anyone could , but he seemed suddenly to think better of it . |
| 10 | And Chapman , 51 , was so traumatised by the experience he vowed never to get back behind the wheel , magistrates heard . |
| 11 | For a moment he stood gazing balefully at the Corsican 's back as he turned away to pass on down the line . |
| 12 | When the critical point was reached in mid-1941 , he acted quickly to turn down the heat . |
| 13 | He campaigned tirelessly to win back the twice yearly courts or assizes , which Buckingham had lost to Aylesbury . |
| 14 | A forest of hands clutching a variety of tickets waved about his head like the tentacles of a sea anemone and he began patiently to explain where they had gone wrong . |
| 15 | Kneeling over her lower body , his belly hanging on to her knees , he began gently to cut off her panties . |
| 16 | But I felt strongly that , like Dickens again , though not to the same extent , he needed occasionally to get out into the open : which is why he made his way down to Cornwall once or twice to see Ronald Duncan . |
| 17 | However , he decided instead to take up the post he had been offered of Captain and Governor of the Isle of Wight . |
| 18 | While he went ahead to direct Yet , I looked about me . |
| 19 | He made Willie cocoa and left him with Sammy to look at the ‘ straw roofs ’ while he went upstairs to put up more blackouts . |
| 20 | He went upstairs to change out of the heavy boots he had ( unnecessarily ) decided were good rugby-watching gear . |
| 21 | After a lunch of Roquefort sandwiches and the remains of last night 's salad , he went inside to lie down . |
| 22 | Some still persist in their view that Morris burnt his boat when he chose previously to hand over the captaincy , saying in effect that he thought his cricket was suffering because of it . |
| 23 | Half an hour later : Z : " I could n't get a word in edgeways " , muttered as he managed finally to get away . |
| 24 | He knew that he had somehow to stay here on the headland , to keep always in view that monstrous building which dominated his imagination as it did his view . |
| 25 | This time he had less to shout about on his Aston Martin stand — just the new two-plus-two Volante with the lower hood line . |
| 26 | Griffith had demonstrated that the theoretical strength could be approximated experimentally in at least one case , he had now to show why the great majority of solids fell so far below it . |
| 27 | ‘ Agreed , ’ he answered reluctantly , wishing he had more to go on before meeting Leitzig . |
| 28 | He was sure of it but there was no point in putting on pressure until he had more to go on . |
| 29 | And now he longed only to get away . |
| 30 | The first real indication of the mood of the new House came on Wednesday , 3 June 1992 , the day after the Danish ‘ no ’ vote and a few hours after the prime minister had told Parliament that he intended nevertheless to press ahead with the bill ratifying the Maastricht Treaty . |