Example sentences of "he [vb past] to [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not that Both would ever admit to bowling a straight one the ball he produced to finally get rid of was a gem and it turned the match away from India . |
| 2 | Fay : ‘ Mr Potts , he was ever such a laugh : but when he got in a temper he used to really shout and nobody took any notice . ’ |
| 3 | He seemed to just FIT IN . ’ |
| 4 | And yet there were times , fleeting but strangely precious times , when he seemed to momentarily forget the war of nerves raging between them . |
| 5 | Well , at that time my best pal went to the pit , his mother would n't let him enter in th for scholarship , but he did happen to come here for , Well , he seemed to always get a day 's day release from the year dot , I think , and er eventually he got some A levels . |
| 6 | Er er it seems we had a very good er er quartermaster , he seemed to always turn up er he seemed to always turn up with something . |
| 7 | Er er it seems we had a very good er er quartermaster , he seemed to always turn up er he seemed to always turn up with something . |
| 8 | ‘ How does it follow from what you 've said that you came to be — ’ He paused and his lips compressed in a cruelly thin line before he seemed to deliberately force away the tension , saying simply , ‘ To be with my brother ? ’ |
| 9 | He was thoughtful and circumspect about what others , as teachers , did ; about what he experienced and felt inside and then , as though guided by some inner light , he seemed to intuitively arrive at simple , fundamental truths . |
| 10 | He vowed to continuously challenge the Government . |
| 11 | Do n't touch me ! ’ she added as he began to carefully straighten her leg and probe the flesh at the top of her boot . |
| 12 | There was a long , emotionally charged silence as they stared at one another , before he began to roughly shrug the jacket from his broad shoulders . |
| 13 | They treated him like one of them , complimenting him on his astuteness , until he began to genuinely believe that it was he who had selected Node Check , that he was an expert on account trading before he 'd learned anything about the stock market in general . |
| 14 | ‘ You have to be washed and changed , ’ she told him , when he began to noisily protest , ‘ and then — ’ she indicated Vitor ‘ — you can go in your papá 's motor car . ’ |
| 15 | Left back Ray Daniel 's cross was expertly controlled by Alan McCloughlin and he fed Walsh , who had all the time he needed to coolly slot in the ball . |
| 16 | I found out later it was the weekend that he decided to definitely make a run for the presidency . |
| 17 | This was a peripatetic Diogenes of the masses though , and fined for obstruction he had to constantly seek new pitches : ‘ His barrel was sandwiched between a fasting girl and a flea circus . |
| 18 | Due to such severe deprivation of mental stimulation , he had to continually wear an iron mask to prevent him from tearing strips off his own sides with his teeth . |
| 19 | For some time the only sound in the room was that of her choking sobs and his comforting murmur as he continued to tenderly stroke her hair . |
| 20 | Laura glanced through her eyelashes at the thick dark hair curling over the edge of his collar , the relaxed set of his broad-shouldered figure as he continued to idly watch the passing scenery , while he talked so calmly and dismissively about a marriage which , it was quite clear , had never been of any major importance in his life . |
| 21 | Now Dr Winfield — and I have ratified this — made 127 sorties ; he could not have enjoyed his period at the Institute very much because he never seemed to he there , But he would come on a station with some project he wanted to fully research and he believed the only way to fully research these things was to " try them out on the dog " . |
| 22 | Still , if he wanted to formally emphasise the gulf between them , it was all to the good . |
| 23 | Paul Walsh , senior nursing officer in the psychiatric unit of Wexham Hospital in Slough , was sacked recently when he refused to forcibly inject a patient who was regarded as lucid by the nurses . |