Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [that] he [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shaun confessed to me loads of times that he wanted to leave the band because it was n't a good living and he did n't enjoy it that much . |
| 2 | Moran felt so outside their circle of concentration that he had to resort to tiptoeing into the room in an exaggerated parody of someone trying to enter unheard but his only audience was the boy , and that not often , and laughter only lifted the girls ' heads from their books for a forgotten moment . |
| 3 | He felt he had scarcely fallen asleep , he was dreaming of a black river , with no banks , yet there was something there , a source of light that he wanted to reach , which he could not reach against the cold drive of the current … |
| 4 | Swod allowed himself a quarter smile at her recognition but his body was so unused to this display of emotion that he began to cough . |
| 5 | He ca n't find anybody , , sort of girl that he wants to marry . |
| 6 | There then appeared a chink of light when we were advised by Mr F. Musgrave of Saintfield that he wished to sell the site of the former Ballynahinch Junction Station , a site which the Trust had been trying to secure for the past 20 years . |
| 7 | I think Lazlo introduced this , to us , very refreshing sort of sound that he wanted to achieve and we were able at the beginning to quite take people by surprise with this what was described as a young , fresh sound , and we did quite a number of recordings . |
| 8 | Drawing close to the body , under the watchful eyes of Lorrimer and Doyle , he thought , as he often did at such a scene , that it looked unreal , an anomaly , so singularly and ridiculously out of place that he had to stifle a nervous impulse to laugh . |
| 9 | Boswell had by now made it plain over a number of years that he wished to write Johnson 's Life . |
| 10 | Sturt , who would have been able to take a much faster and direct route , only made it as far as the western approaches to the bend , and was so hard-pressed by lack of water that he had to bleed a horse to survive . |
| 11 | Not all of the attributes of God that he intended to pass along to the human race were present in Adam , eg God has a mother 's heart . |
| 12 | There were lots of little gems of advice that he wanted to offer his daughter , but Ian could only look blankly at her as he steeled himself to give her away . |
| 13 | He was so out of breath that he had to swallow a couple of words to get air . |
| 14 | The man was not wanting to be interviewed , but such is the power of television that he had to agree . |
| 15 | As a man whose sensibilities would be troubled by these liaisons with ‘ beastliness ’ , a basically tender-hearted man , it was perhaps in compensation for his acts of relief that he tried to befriend and help women in trouble , as we shall see . |
| 16 | Such was this sailor 's quality of draughtsmanship that he had to develop a technique of etching and aquatinting to multiply the number of views required to satisfy the demand . |
| 17 | On the other hand , it is equally true that it is through participation in the service of others that he comes to realize his true Self and his identity with all that lives . |
| 18 | As usual , the Minister makes a lot of statements but gives no real facts , It would be useful if he followed the Prime Minister 's example and supported the concept of targets for the number of women that he expects to see in grades 1 to 5 of the civil service in one , two and five years ' time . |
| 19 | ‘ He has confirmed for business that he wants to promote growth . |
| 20 | So impressed was the forward-thinking Murray with the two games against Leeds that he wants to speed up the introduction of a British Cup . |
| 21 | She marked with satisfaction that he appeared to brood on that . |
| 22 | A was held liable to B for trespass to his goods and to C for unlawful interference with his contract with B. However , there must be some conduct which is ‘ unlawful ’ apart from the intent to injure C , so that , for example , refusing , without any breach of contract , to provide B with supplies that he needs to fulfil his contract with C is no more a tort against C than it is against B , even though A 's motive is to injure C. |
| 23 | Unfortunately , it is precisely at the point when the plaintiff can not succeed in a claim in negligence that he needs to have recourse to the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher . |
| 24 | Mr P R Field of the Oldbury Steam Live Railway Museum ( Bridgnorth ) was our guest speaker on 2 February 1990 when he gave his views on Britain 's railways over the years , first explaining that it was in Scotland that he began to take an interest in them and then he become ‘ hooked ’ ! |
| 25 | It was during the five years he spent in Orkney that he began to make a name for himself in the field of English-language studies ; he was also the writer of the ‘ Orcadian Boatman 's Song ’ . |
| 26 | They then lost Gatting , who had been in better form than anyone , in the first one-day international when his nose exploded after coming into contact with a ball from Marshall that he failed to hook . |
| 27 | I have an indication from Mr that he wishes to speak . |
| 28 | In an attempt to reassure them , EC Environment Commissioner Carlo Ripa di Meana announced at the October session of the Parliament in Strasbourg that he hopes to announce ‘ soon ’ firm plans for an EC centre for alternative testing — including an opening date . |
| 29 | He made no attempt to present her to the other man , however , apparently so deep in thought that he seemed to have forgotten her very existence . |
| 30 | President Nixon , however , used the weapon of impoundment without restraint , embarking ‘ on large scale impoundments in programs that he wanted to terminate or curtail . |