Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The claims he made went directly against traditional thought . |
| 2 | Her hand shot out to grasp his arm as he made to move away . |
| 3 | He made to protest again , but she shook her head . |
| 4 | So , unless he planned to lie there until nightfall , which would rule out any possibility of his getting up to town to give his evening 's performance , he had to make a move . |
| 5 | Mr Mandela , who is on a three-day tour of powderkeg areas around the Natal provincial capital Pietermaritzburg , said earlier he planned to attend tomorrow 's funeral . |
| 6 | Furthermore , Mr Farraday had made it clear that he planned to hold only very rarely the sort of large social occasions Darlington Hall had seen frequently in the past . |
| 7 | When he agreed to go ahead he could not have been more generous . |
| 8 | According to Geoffrey le Baker , the bishop first of all called upon Edward to abdicate , and in an emotional scene he agreed to do so . |
| 9 | When Henry , who had not been present at the death-bed , arrived for the funeral , he at first refused to take the oath but eventually , confronted by his father 's decomposing body , he agreed to do so . |
| 10 | When he appeared in the Home Circuit Court at Kingston before Theobalds J. on 26 September 1983 both counsel invited the judge to see them in chambers and he agreed to do so . |
| 11 | He agreed to do so , and Apollinaris , the son of a previous bishop , the great Sidonius Apollinaris , was sent off to king Theuderic as the candidate for the office , and was appointed . |
| 12 | And even if a miracle somehow happened and he agreed to try again , it would simply end up exactly the same way it did the first time . |
| 13 | After discussions between Bond , the Shrewsbury board and Burnley police , he agreed to stay away rather than run the risk of provoking incidents on the terraces . |
| 14 | Imagine his surprise , therefore , when he discovered that not a single German he met had ever been in the Nazi Party , let alone had even heard of a concentration camp . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , Irwin appears to have reconciled the two to his own satisfaction , though the arguments to which he resorted owed more to the theological aptitude displayed in his youthful biography of Keble than to ordinary practical intelligence . |
| 16 | And amazingly enough , he expected to earn more . |
| 17 | The players have now scored 70 goals between them for Rangers in all competitions this season , though McCoist was jocularly chided by his manager as he attempted to reply to the unanswerable question , posed him by a foreign journalist , of how many goals he expected to score tonight . |
| 18 | Mr Carey , 46 , a distinguished BBC journalist for 23 years , said he expected to liaise constantly with broadcasters on what footage they required . |
| 19 | Details of a promotion were discussed with the manager , a promotion in which he expected to do well having sold a considerable amount of Stoddard Templeton carpet . |
| 20 | But if he entered diplomacy at all he expected to do so at or near the top . |
| 21 | However , when subsequently he became employed solely by an audit firm established in Germany , and thus ceased to fulfil the conditions described above , his authorisation to practise in Luxembourg was cancelled . |
| 22 | This is partly because he became known much sooner . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm not going in there , am I ? ! ’ he asked pointing nervously to the basket . |
| 24 | He asked to speak confidentially with Ron Bullough , the Chief Scientist of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority ( UKAEA ) whose office is at Harwell , on the grounds that he ( Fleischmann ) had something ‘ very important that might require a major decision ’ . |
| 25 | Who 's trying to swindle you this time ? ’ he asked smiling wryly — his job had made him cynical . |
| 26 | It was also noticed that he ceased to whistle unconsciously as he walked up the aisle from the vestry . |
| 27 | He ceased to breathe yesterday about five o'clock . |
| 28 | The alarm was raised when he failed to return home after a pottery class . |
| 29 | In order to prove it was not composed of ‘ patsies ’ , as Reagan put it , the United States insisted that Arafat repeat specifically worded concessions concerning terrorism and recognition of Israel , and when he failed to do so verbatim , it required him to repeat the authorized US version . |
| 30 | Called on to repeat information he failed to do so . |