Example sentences of "[subord] he have [verb] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was much bigger than he had imagined it to be . |
| 2 | Charlotte Ladram was more obviously nervous than he had known her to be on any previous occasion and professed herself reluctant to remain indoors , let alone cook a meal . |
| 3 | The doctor had wanted to bring him here but was not very happy about making the same journey twice , so he had taken him to the next valley . |
| 4 | Penry was tactful enough to leave her to her own devices once he 'd directed her to a chemist . |
| 5 | Once he 'd introduced me to the Princess , he never said another word . ’ |
| 6 | Bultmann was primarily a New Testament scholar , and his theological position , once he had settled it to his own satisfaction , remained more or less inflexible thereafter . |
| 7 | Once he had taken me to Brighton for the day . |
| 8 | His strategy was that he spent big , to give the club momentum , once he had got us to the top , he knew we were living beyond our means , but hoped that the structure he created would maintain our position . |
| 9 | Well , you know , once he , once he 's once he 's resigned himself to not getting this back . |
| 10 | But once he 's , once he 's resigned himself to that , he 's then got ta look at that operation next door and he must be losing money hand over fist for the amount of space it is . |
| 11 | A moral is drawn advising husbands : ( Do just as Hain did with his wife , who would only ever show him the slightest respect , until he had beaten her to the core . ) |
| 12 | It was something else that was bothering him , something illogical that he could n't explain to the Captain until he had explained it to himself . |
| 13 | but if he had sent him to the eye hospital he 'd have waited two years . |
| 14 | She 'd hoped , thought , it would be nice if he had taken her to lunch sometimes , or let her stay to breakfast in his room at the Franz Joseph instead of pushing her out early and sending her back to the Gasthaus . |
| 15 | I fear , however , that Woodward 's vocation would have been better exercised if he had confined himself to hospital portering . |
| 16 | If he 'd done something to or around the horses , I thought , then he had to have travelled with us on the train . |
| 17 | As she stared into her bemused eyes , he slowly smiled , and in that moment she would have committed murder if he 'd asked her to . |
| 18 | By the end , he acted as if he 'd said nothing to me at all earlier about being worried , being followed and everything and he turned the conversation round to me and my future . |
| 19 | For Rachel , who had never before experienced such intensity of feeling , it was as if he 'd transported her to another world — a world where every sensation was heightened , every touch the prelude to yet more delight as he explored and worshipped every inch of her body before taking her to the peak of fulfilment . |
| 20 | If he 'd got her to that state , why was she drinking coffee ? |
| 21 | " You 'd be wasting your time — if he 's made it to Dublin , then he 's vanished . |
| 22 | er for the time being and if you ask Dave about this thing you 've missed and also about what this business about erm cos he has explained it to me but I 'm not quite sure about it , this business of keeping a , a sort of l record of all the practicals for this term |
| 23 | Susie had been secretive partly because of who she was — a different woman might have confronted him openly — but partly because he had driven her to it . |
| 24 | He refused to swap it with opposite number Willie Carne after the game because he had promised it to the Mirror . |
| 25 | He was a very strong , patient , virile bloke who went on living with an awful woman because he had committed himself to a marriage . |
| 26 | The first time because he had allowed himself to be called away in the middle of things and had n't been able to supervise the men properly . |
| 27 | It is therefore difficult for him to appreciate the general view of the Service , that , on his return … he must re-establish his professional standing , even though a few years earlier the Service had sent him to University because he had proved himself to be a good , practical policeman . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | She wondered whether he had mentioned it to the Inspector privately . |
| 30 | But the worst of all was to read what she had finally written on the night before the bazaar , the night before he had added himself to the list of those who had betrayed her — It was the worst hurt of his life . |