Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alton 's back row combined to give club captain Dave Osborne — playing in the centre — a try and then Malcolm Osborne flipped an overhead pass to flanker Alan Purdon for him to go over between the posts . |
| 2 | She wanted him to stop yet at the same time wanted him to go on in the hope that the lovely sensations would begin again . |
| 3 | I 'm an Army officer and all I want to do is persuade him to go back to the Army . ’ |
| 4 | A year ago Nicky , Rob 's girlfriend of about eight months convinced him to go back to the ice pack that nearly killed him . |
| 5 | On this occasion he could only get 5in so he told one of the shunters , George Dyson , what had happened and asked him to go back along the fish vans and find out if a bag was off . |
| 6 | Well we 're gon na try get him to go out for a drink er one evening with that tape recorder so we 're gon na record the conversation on the side of that . |
| 7 | To get him to go out to the Lock with her , Marie had told Simon all sorts of lies . |
| 8 | I rang the owner Gary Harris , and arranged with him to go out to the USA and view the aircraft , after which we came to an agreement and I purchased the Corsair . |
| 9 | He 'd been shaken , certainly , when Cedric Downes had invited him to go along to the North Oxford Golf Club and knock up the caretaker if necessary . |
| 10 | ‘ He made his way along the road until a colleague told him to sit down on the pavement . |
| 11 | He slung his cloak of feathers over the staff and Scathach helped him to sit down in the slight shelter that this garment offered . |
| 12 | They danced two dances together — or , rather , one and a half , for in the middle of the second , a waltz , he complained of feeling hot and giddy and she took him to sit out at the side . |
| 13 | As she put her coat on she could hear him rattling about in a conspicuous way with pans and dishes , and talking to Tam . |
| 14 | She gave Charles the address , and looked so happy and excited when she asked the Stage Door Keeper to get her the Wimbledon number , that he quite forgave her for keeping him hanging about in the draughty passage outside his box . |
| 15 | He said : ‘ Edwards is the best support player in the game but it 's no use having him hanging about in the wings when the experience could be given to a younger player . |
| 16 | She remembered him propped up by the nurses , waving his little hands about . |
| 17 | But something made him glance up at the lounge window as he approached . |
| 18 | Charlotte saw him glance out through the window and clench his teeth before turning back to face Ursula . |
| 19 | Ask him to write down in a few words what he thinks his present image is , and what he wants his image to be , and he will most likely fail to do it . |
| 20 | It is absurd , every time we introduce another element of our policy , for him to leap on to the populist pitch and then , as he no doubt will in a few minutes ' time , find some detailed reasons for being opposed to it . |
| 21 | Taylor has been to Rome to talk to Gascoigne , whose last serious outing saw him carried off in the 1991 FA Cup final against Nottingham Forest with knee ligament damage . |
| 22 | She reached up , and kissing him fiercely on the lips , whispered a rhyme she had made up years before : " Tristram Pascoe , Tristram Pascoe , never , never let your lass go ! " — and when they had hugged , she watched him climb nimbly over the wall and heard him jump down into the hayfield on the other side . |
| 23 | Defender turned star striker Paul Warhurst passed a fitness test after recovering from the groin injury that forced him to pull out of the England squad . |
| 24 | Igglesden is still troubled by the groin strain which forced him to pull out of the squad for the first Test at Old Trafford while McCague was nursing a pulled hamstring . |
| 25 | I can remember willing him to jump out as a child . |
| 26 | He was very normal , you could see him walking down to the bank Monday to Friday , but he 's got this completely eccentric side to him . ’ |
| 27 | In her mind 's eye , she could see him walking out of the velvet sea , the sunlight golden on his skin . |
| 28 | He is right to change the emphasis of the list and we urge him to stand up to the civil servants who are resisting change . |
| 29 | The industrialist MP Samuel Morley and others persuaded him to stand down on the grounds that ministers should not directly enter the political arena and Morley paid all his expenses when he gave up the contest . |
| 30 | Executive members of one of the party 's most active branches , Mossend , confirmed yesterday they had written to Mr Salmond asking him to stand down as a result of the MPs ' decision to strike a deal with the Conservatives in exchange for their votes on the Maastricht bill . |