Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [pron] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He drives her to work next day , humming unconcernedly into her silence . |
| 2 | You were his victim ; he wants it to stay that way . |
| 3 | He wants that , yo , he wants you to put some water in that for a test , some of your water in that |
| 4 | He is nervous , Preston thought , he wants us to like each other . |
| 5 | I found it hard to find Mill 's arguments for this , although he seems to be , he seems to be arguing the point over several pages , but erm we get pretty much rhetorical claims and evidence and so he wants us to consider those states which have been ruled by despots with those contemporary states which have been democracies England versus Spain say and he thinks it 's obvious which type of system we ought to prefer . |
| 6 | He takes himself to have true premises and a valid inference to a true conclusion ; the premises might include the proposition that in the past he has made mistakes . |
| 7 | So when he uses the term utilitarianism he takes it to mean eudaemonistic consequentialism . |
| 8 | Jesus Christ was big himself , he came into the world to do big things and he calls us to do big things . |
| 9 | On the premise that ‘ too many cooks spoil the broth ’ , he asks us to reiterate that day to day management of the Village is in the hands of the Warden , Mrs. Pat Holmes , and any guidance , questions or advice on such matters should be addressed to her in the first instance . |
| 10 | On the opening page of Amis 's first novel , Jim mentally decides on his own word when his professor uses another , deferentially pretending as an untenured lecturer to look amused at a weak professorial joke , and he promises himself to make another sort of face to himself when next alone . |