Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [subord] he [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean if he wants to put a shelf up or |
| 2 | I mean if he has to come on Monday it wo n't be too bad . |
| 3 | ‘ I suppose because he got to know what I had seen and how much I remembered . |
| 4 | But I doubt if he agreed to talk . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I doubt if he intended to meet a priest or that Erceldoun was murdered by one ; he was a powerfully-built young soldier , I doubt very much if any priest , or even more than one , could get the advantage of such a man . ’ |
| 6 | Now I wonder whether he managed to do it ? |
| 7 | I wonder if you feel that even if there was a deal , the British government , the Foreign Office , represented as they were , so admirably really , by Sir Edward Heath , he seems to have done a very good job , I wonder if he had to work very hard , or do you think perhaps , anybody could carry that out ? |
| 8 | I waited until he started to turn round , then took the catapult , binoculars and spade off the table . |
| 9 | It is important that you negotiate with a man you trust as he has to agree to practise safer sex from test to pregnancy — which may take a considerable time . |
| 10 | She realized as he started to load the projector that he probably did n't have many people to talk to . |
| 11 | ‘ Our friend Kustow … do you know if he likes to gamble ? ’ |
| 12 | She stopped as he began to shake with suppressed laughter , then added indignantly , ‘ I 'm serious , Robert . |
| 13 | Hovering in the doorway , Wilson heard Mr Browning plead with her to say something to him and then she listened while he tried to make out a case for the French Emperor , to argue this might not be the betrayal it seemed , and that all hope might not be lost . |
| 14 | She waited until he went to pass her to reach the door and leave at the end of the night . |
| 15 | Disappointed , Tug turned back to the sink , listening vaguely to what she said as he began to wash up . |
| 16 | ‘ Herr Wolff , ’ she said as he started to leave her , ‘ I hope you and your brother understand that , though I am grateful for your trust , I do not admire your judgement . |
| 17 | And he , erm , in fact puts in a greater investment than she does because he has to do the transportation , protection and everything . |
| 18 | Everything has to be left in separate heaps in his manger for him to inspect before he condescends to eat it . |
| 19 | She hugged him to her , stayed by his side , let him speak when he wanted to speak , held him when he cried . |
| 20 | It slipped down again and she could hear him swearing as he tried to haul it up . |
| 21 | And he used to come and they could see him coming for he had to come in a cart . |
| 22 | I felt responsible because I encouraged him to be in the group in the first place , I persuaded him to stay when he wanted to go and yet in the end we asked him to leave , ’ says Gedge . |
| 23 | It 's where he goes when he has to write a speech … ’ |
| 24 | He writes because ‘ if I do n't write , I suffer ’ ; he writes because he wants to know what will happen in his book ; he is , he says , his ‘ own reader ’ , prey to a phenomenon : automatic writing . |
| 25 | I think it looks like he wanted to get the thing over and done with before the Sabbath . |
| 26 | ‘ What 'll he do if he wants to go to the lavatory though ? ’ |
| 27 | ‘ It seems after he decided to pull me off , he looked back and decided on different reasons for things over the years to stir up our relationship . ’ |
| 28 | At Surrey the ‘ amateur ’ W. W. Read was employed as ‘ assistant secretary ’ to the club for £250 a year — a post he relinquished when he ceased to play . |
| 29 | I reckon he died cos he wanted to go back to his home in Heaven and be with God . |
| 30 | It is , indeed , part of what he meant when he claimed to adhere to science as a Weltanschuung , as distinct from a religious creed . |