Example sentences of "he [verb] to [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is to say a little evidence against it will cause him agonies of doubt and self-mistrust , moderate amounts will cause some real concern and a pursing of his lips — but total and irrefutable proof of his law 's inaccuracy , its illogic , its basic and undeniable untenability , will cause him to cling to it in all its unmodified entirety with the tenacity and single-mindedness of a barnacle . |
| 2 | Got him to agree to it at last . |
| 3 | I know that the Minister may not be in a position to respond in detail to the comments made on this subject by the hon. Member for Cardiff , North and me , but I hope that he will take them on board and I ask him to write to us on these important local issues . |
| 4 | It was n't going to be easy , arguing with someone from her inferior position , but she 'd be damned if she 'd let him speak to her like that ! |
| 5 | ‘ May God rest your soul , Mother , ’ I heard him say to himself at last . |
| 6 | It was always the other way round , and when he found overnight fame , he clung to it with both hands and worried sometimes that it would go away again . |
| 7 | He was late yesterday , got a brand new vehicle and , yet I mean if , if was getting here at one and yesterday he got to ours at half past eleven , so erm , it was half past eleven that 's right , it was dead on , so erm , erm whatever 's he going to be like when it gets near to Christmas ? |
| 8 | He appealed to her in several languages , including German . |
| 9 | Later that afternoon he came to me with some of my translations from the index cards . |
| 10 | ‘ But he came to us through normal casting , ’ said Rogers . |
| 11 | ‘ But Ellen , ’ she cried , staring horrified at him , ‘ how dare he speak to me like that ! |
| 12 | ‘ How dare he speak to me like that ? |
| 13 | He turned to me in dumbfounded fury . |
| 14 | This fellow 's excuse for putting his shovel into the public purse is that he is executive producer of the Wogan show , something he keeps to himself in public places if he has any sense . |
| 15 | As he bowed to me in that tight state , I almost believe I saw creases come into the white of his eyes . |
| 16 | His teaching after the resurrection , when " beginning with Moses and all the prophets , he interpreted to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself " , was the climax of what he had been teaching them through the years of his ministry . |
| 17 | " Beginning with Moses and all the prophets , he interpreted to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself . " |
| 18 | He called to her from one crowded floor to the other , ‘ Any luck ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Why did he talk to you about that anyway ? ’ demanded Ethel . |
| 20 | " Did n't he talk to you at all ? " |
| 21 | He sounded to himself like some tendentious student with balloon words coming out of his mouth . |
| 22 | I do n't know if you want them , he said to me like that you see . |
| 23 | ‘ Bloody fog makes your eyes water , ’ he said to no-one in particular . |
| 24 | And within a few days of his return from the United States , he wrote to me on 4 August to the Kensington Mews flat : |
| 25 | We naturally renewed our invitation as soon as we learnt of the new arrangements proposed by the English Club , and he wrote to me on 25 November 1935 on Criterion writing paper : |
| 26 | The point was — as he explained to me throughout that autumn and the winter that followed — to understand that habit was ritual , and ritual was habit . |