Example sentences of "[noun] he [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He must know not only about the risks he wishes to avoid , or to take , and the price at which he is prepared to transact , but also more about the characteristics of the underlying instrument such as its volatility and the degree to which its price is correlated with the risky prospect against which he seeks a hedge ( or upon which he plans to speculate ) . |
| 2 | His despondent letter to Thelwall was written immediately following an absence of ‘ a day or two ’ , during which , it seems likely , he walked westward into the Exmoor fringes above Porlock , the home territory of his maternal ancestors , and in a lonely farmhouse near Culbone Church sought the isolation he needed to complete Osorio . |
| 3 | In his songs he appears to realise that the dear old Blighty that he glorified has been reduced to a sorry Union Jack T-shirt on a frustrated football supporter . |
| 4 | In any experience , for instance , involving a man and a difficult horse he wishes to master , the most important element is not the animal itself but the man 's mind ; and especially that part of his mind over which he has no immediately willed or conscious control . |
| 5 | He repudiated the oath by which he had restored to the Holy See the ecclesiastical rights and privileges enjoyed by the emperors and the kings of Sicily and within a few months of his coronation he began to progress down into Italy . |
| 6 | The big bucks are tied up in the options on 500,000 shares of IBM stock he gets to exercise . |
| 7 | Bert he seemed to dismiss . |
| 8 | erm And erm when he came back after the war , he actually was so much involved on the parliamentarian side he had to leave Oxford during the war , but when he came back he built a school in the city which was actually in the Guildhall courtyard , it was built round the courtyard , and that remained a free school , for the city 's boys right up to the end of the 19th century . |
| 9 | When I was settled at his side he turned to scrutinize me . |
| 10 | Similarly , Murdoch 's Sun in 1970 was a close copy of the Daily Mirror , whose readers he sought to poach . |
| 11 | Remote too often as well from the readers he needs to reach . |
| 12 | He thought of a Socialist future for his half country , and conceived the hope of a job in which he might have the luck to be gripped by some stupendous ire of work , trying to avoid the spectacle of the people around him and in the wet street outside , which pointed out a fraternal indifference in the world that was the last perception he cared to harbor . |
| 13 | On shaking legs he began to descend . |
| 14 | Being adept at the set conversation piece he managed to extract the relevant data without ever putting his knife in it . |
| 15 | Tom Hanks had come to the fair with two ageing horses from the manor he wanted to sell and he brought Carrie with him , riding in a light cart behind which were tied the two horses . |
| 16 | On Tuesday he seemed to resume his normal routine of business calls and brought in two or three orders . |
| 17 | ASK Frank Bishop for his tip for the Grand National and his answer will be Direct — to suit the style of football he intends to throw at Margate , visitors to Cressing Road this afternoon . |
| 18 | It seemed fresh and charming compared with some of the bawdy , world-weary journalists he had to deal with . |
| 19 | Today he came face to face with the journalists he wants to reign in . |
| 20 | To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what new incentive to manufacturers he intends to introduce to stimulate the home machine tool industry . |
| 21 | When high rents and falling prices threatened the farm with insolvency he decided to use the experience he had obtained with domestic animals by training to become a veterinary surgeon . |
| 22 | The churchmen were less buoyant , having presented Mr de Klerk with a memorandum in which they listed six steps he had to take ‘ immediately ’ before negotiations about the government 's much-vaunted new political dispensation could start . |
| 23 | ‘ If I was a Romany I 'd have ended up fighting Nahum , ’ said Seb , trying not to allow the emotion he felt to show . |
| 24 | If he ran into Eleanor he planned to blame the general editor and make soothing noises . |
| 25 | Back on Venturous , Phil Andrews again hit the headlines in the early days of the pirate radio ships when , during a routine patrol off the Essex Coast he decided to speak to the Caroline to ascertain if bonded stores were carried . |
| 26 | Having made contact with a group of students at the nearby Architectural Association he went to see them play at the Goings On Club in Archer Street , a tiny place largely frequented by poets . |
| 27 | He was well aware of the depth of the chasm which separated the past from the future he hoped to create , and he was above all a realist , but inevitably the fusing of nearly 600 formerly independent undertakings into a new corporate identity was not painless . |
| 28 | Pinochet , who was still C.-in-C. of the army , was told by President Patricio Alywin Azócar on April 15 that in future he had to give prior notice to the government of any trips abroad . |
| 29 | A glance at the map revealed that there was a short cut down to the Miletti villa , so instead of summoning Palottino he decided to walk . |
| 30 | A : Neutrality concerning each person 's chances of implementing the ideal of the good he happens to have . |