Example sentences of "[to-vb] in [adj] [noun] [conj] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again she was giving him the opportunity to ask her to lengthen the period — or to indicate in some way that he had no wish for her to leave . |
| 2 | Another great missionary , St Anskar , had to engage in similar arguments when he preached ( under the sponsorship of Louis the Pious ) to the Swedes at the prosperous port of Birka in the ninth century . |
| 3 | But it seems that , I mean , redressing a paper that you know what it says is one thing erm so something like Hillman 's Guardian , he knows what words they are going to use in those headlines and he provides them with a new look for saying those words in , but in many ways his redesign of that paper was erm it was an undynamic one in the sense that he was still providing them with elements which they could bolt together to make a page in a classic broadsheet newspaper way . |
| 4 | God knows it is hard enough to get him off to sleep in that place and he 's asleep now . " |
| 5 | ‘ That 's possible — he knows I 'll be looking for him — but he 'll have to remain in this country until he can collect his legacy , and by then he 'll expect me to have given up . ’ |
| 6 | As for Mr Gorbachev himself , he is desperate for the party to stay in one piece because he knows that , once on their own , neither hardliners nor reformers would be likely to want him as their leader . |
| 7 | For half an hour their talk was easy and pointless , and then Killion began to wonder whether Mary was going to stay in all night and he became uncomfortable , chatting pleasantly to someone he wanted to get rid of . |
| 8 | I encouraged the English boy to move in one evening after he had taken me to a pub , and I felt this urge to have a hold on all the different sides there were to London . |
| 9 | Martin strode quickly towards him , picked up the phone , said , ‘ Yes ? ’ then listened ; and as he did so his head began to move in small jerks as he looked from side to side . |