Example sentences of "he [adv] [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He rather wished to pass on his experience to the rest of you , but felt that my column was a more appropriate medium for that purpose . |
| 2 | He humbly begins to grease himself . |
| 3 | He slowly came to realise that there was no longer any firing from the rear turret . |
| 4 | With his gaze locked on hers , he slowly began to undo the buttons of his shirt . |
| 5 | Then he slowly began to open the staircase door . |
| 6 | He slowly turned to face her . |
| 7 | ( 1937 , You 're in the Army Now in US ) , the improbable tale of an American hoodlum who takes on the identity of a murdered gambling companion and finds himself in the British Army , where he slowly comes to understand the habits of self-effacing Englishmen . |
| 8 | This causes the reader to feel very sorry for him but this pity soon fades as Pip starts to blame Joe for his common ways and he slowly begins to turn into a snob . |
| 9 | He presumably wants to say that the idea that there can be a general definition of the economic sphere is a residue of the classical claim that it is defined in terms of some universal trait such as human needs . |
| 10 | So Milosh was sent for , and he gladly agreed to go . |
| 11 | He found himself struggling on his back with the stifling presence of the flag wrapped round him like a shroud ; the strange thing was that as he weakly continued to struggle ( for the staff lay across his legs , pinning him down , and the lanyards had somehow trussed his elbows to his sides ) , he recognized the sensation immediately : this was a nightmare he had had on the night they had taken refuge in the Residency , and repeatedly since then throughout the siege ; when the Collector , cursing , had at last fought his way out of the flag , it was such a relief to escape from his nightmare that he felt he did not mind so much about the sepoys . |
| 12 | He was wearing a polonecked sweater of such advanced dilapidation that the hem hung in long woollen fronds almost to his knees , and as he tremblingly attempted to light his pipe he looked very vulnerable . |
| 13 | He politely declined to pose for pictures with Nesta and added : ‘ I have nothing else to say today … but I will say plenty when the time comes . ’ |
| 14 | The following evening Penry rang again , but this time he spoke to Elise , who was rather mystified when he politely declined to speak to Leonora . |
| 15 | Philip Mairet , the editor , who was sympathetic to my views , tried to persuade Eliot to contribute his , and he eventually agreed to do so . |
| 16 | Mulhern does n't sell horses but he was partly influenced this time by Jeremy Maxwell who used to train On the Other Hand and he eventually agreed to part with the gelding to Robert Ogden with a view to running in the Grand Military Gold Cup at Sandown . |
| 17 | Although he eventually managed to finish his ( televised ) speech , the image remained of a President no longer in full control of events , being angrily accused of lying to the American people . |
| 18 | He eventually managed to assemble about 170 of his foot , all that had survived , and some 450 horsemen , and led them southwards towards Coldstream , by what was long remembered as Johnny Cope 's road' , and thence next day to Berwick . |
| 19 | He eventually managed to secure some work in the form of a commission from a surgeon with the Dutch East India Company at Mannheim , an amateur flautist , to compose ‘ three short , simple concertos and a couple of quartets for the flute ’ ( 10 December 1777 ) , for which he was to be paid 200 gulden . |
| 20 | Mr McKenzie said he eventually had to stop work because of pain and shortness of breath . |
| 21 | But it is at scrum-half or stand-off that he eventually aims to establish himself . |
| 22 | Ask AFHQ to ask Tito how many enemy he eventually wishes to retain . |
| 23 | He eventually decided to take the latest letter round to the proper 27 The Grove . |
| 24 | He eventually contrived to smuggle himself , heavily disguised , on to a commercial flight out of Iran and to exile in Paris . |
| 25 | Over the last weekend , he single-handedly managed to create a 3-4 point drop in his own party 's support , with a knock-on effect against Labour . |
| 26 | He badly wants to complete the task and continues hoping to pick up more lift on the way . |
| 27 | He badly wants to play against Spain . ’ |
| 28 | He badly wants to play , and believes that once he has a League match with Lazio under his belt he will be ready to give his heart to England . |
| 29 | He badly wants to play against Spain . ’ |
| 30 | We could n't talk because I believe he badly wanted to telephone someone who had just returned from China , so it was just a handshake really . |