Example sentences of "he [vb past] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He made to have another look at the distant diner . |
| 2 | I asked John how he planned to do this shot and he said , ‘ Simple . |
| 3 | He planned to pursue integrative schemes as a private citizen and it was thought doubtful whether he could achieve the same effect in that capacity . |
| 4 | In December 1990 , the Energy Minister , John Wakeham , had said that he planned to approve renewable-energy projects amounting to between 150 and 200 megawatts of electricity output in 1991 . |
| 5 | With the help of his mother and sister , he agreed to continue this work at home which would be set by the school and assessment centre jointly . |
| 6 | But after Monaco , a real miracle did occur : Stanley said to forget the rest of the payments to the team — as long as he agreed to stay two seasons more . |
| 7 | Finally , he agreed to meet various costs and charges of the countess ' children and grandchildren at her request . |
| 8 | Finally , he agreed to meet various costs and charges of the countess ' children and grandchildren at her request . |
| 9 | At the same time , communicating with Yeltsin behind Yazov 's back , he agreed to send some tanks to the White House . |
| 10 | Bishops Hall doing it nicely under Brad and it 's good to see him in the saddle today because he was offered the ride on Morley Street but he 'd already said yes and he 's a man of his word and he agreed to ride this horse . |
| 11 | He agreed to station Iranian guards both inside and outside the walls of the compound in the future . |
| 12 | Despite his personal battle against deafness he fought to help battered wives and rape victims . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , President Roh Tae Woo of South Korea welcomed the recent progress in relations between the two states , and on July 6 suggested that he expected to see Korean reunification achieved within five years . |
| 14 | He looked around him , as if he expected to see another presence there . |
| 15 | All the week the receipts had been unusually high , but this evening he expected to break all records . |
| 16 | Was it sheer bravado on Obispal 's part that he disdained to fire explosive bolts at that creature which itself could not manipulate a gun ? |
| 17 | I had written to Joe Ackerley about Dana , and how we were writing poems together , and he asked to see some examples of this unusual collaboration . |
| 18 | He had centre front stage , his voice projected forward over Therese 's , and he ceased to make any attempt to act out the plotted movements with her . |
| 19 | At one point he grew so angry he failed to blow any kind of a note on his horn ; he dashed it to the ground in a fury of petulance . |
| 20 | Guardian reader Peter John , who has holdings in Dumenil 's Swiss , French and Spanish funds , claims he failed to receive any dividends in June and November as he expected . |
| 21 | When he failed to promote any women into his first cabinet he insisted he would only appoint on merit . |
| 22 | When he failed to muster enough backing for a secret ballot Pawar announced his support for Rao who was then unanimously elected as leader on June 20. nation |
| 23 | However , I am surprised that he failed to mention persistent bed-wetting which , in my experience , was the one absolutely infallible method of obtaining release from military service . |
| 24 | Your dear brother left quite a few problems behind when he failed to take that corner . |
| 25 | The difference between an action under the Act and a negligence action , is that in the latter the plaintiff must show that the defendant was negligent , i.e. that he failed to take reasonable care in the preparation and putting up of the product . |
| 26 | There Tyndale wrote to urge him to avoid any discussion of the Sacraments , but he failed to take this advice and was convicted as a heretic precisely on this question and was burned . |
| 27 | He failed to interest American industrialists and in 1886 came to England , thereafter the centre of his working life . |
| 28 | Mr Field lost the nomination to a local Transport and General Workers ' union official , Mr Paul Davies , because he failed to secure sufficient votes in the trade union section . |
| 29 | Another deaf man , a David Bedwell who had partial hearing , enlisted in the Army Service Corps as a driver , and his deafness cost him his life when he failed to hear three challenges as he was approaching the gates of a barracks . |
| 30 | If he failed to pay one instalment , he was fined a halfpenny for every shilling , which became a penny after the second omission when the loan society secretary sent him a circular letter for which a fee of threepence was exacted . |