Example sentences of "he [verb] [to-vb] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because of his inexperience and the firing of the two previous directors , he asked to do it under another name , not wanting to take the rap for a flop . |
| 2 | He straightened to kiss her with lazy possessiveness on her mouth , his tongue devouring her even as he was impatiently unbuckling the waist of his trousers , dispensing with the remainder of his clothes with rough masculine haste . |
| 3 | It 's something that has taken us years to do and he has to do it in five minutes . ’ |
| 4 | He began jocularly by saying that he rose to address them with some apprehension , reminded of a piece of graffiti he had seen on a Whitehall notice board which had read , ‘ I used to be indecisive … but now I 'm not so sure , , which brought a few chuckles from the floor . |
| 5 | Yeah see you see , hold on Patrick would you , erm go round Carl 's house tomorrow about eight o'clock and ask Carl if he wants to swap his for one of my freedom dragon 's la land ? |
| 6 | No he wants to tape us on some sort of tape . |
| 7 | and if he wants to send them as one consignment , but now the value is twenty five thousand pounds collectively you can ring up Stubbings and as , or get your F and A to do this for you , Finance and Admin , ring up Stubbings and can you give me a special rate for these goods and ar , can you give me what I can charge them for special coverage to take it higher than our normal coverage of fifteen thousand pound ? |
| 8 | It will certainly seem so to the Englishman ( as I take him to be ) , who found in the ‘ Envoi ’ to Hugh Selwyn Mauberley — Pound 's most explicit farewell to England , as he prepared to leave her in 1918 — ‘ externality : an externality which , considering what Mauberley attempts , is utterly disabling ’ . |
| 9 | God in heaven , he seemed to do nothing on this job but envy Boxer and his easy role . |
| 10 | He seemed to resent them on that occasion and will not wear them today . |
| 11 | He seemed to resent them on that occasion and will not wear them today |
| 12 | He refuses to commit himself at all on the dating of Abdulkerim 's Muftilik , not even naming the sultan in whose reign it occurred . |
| 13 | Mr. Kemp is entitled to his opinions but why he chooses to express them in such flippant and dismissive manner is puzzling . |
| 14 | He intends to divest you of all your power and become the caliph himself . ’ |
| 15 | He began to take her to antique shops , sought out trade exhibitions of fabrics and contemporary furniture , bought her books on design — on Bauhaus , which brought him back to his own youth , on the Viennese Secession with its decorative flights and insistence on utility . |
| 16 | Suddenly I became a target for this lunatic , and he began to shower me with machine-gun bullets . |
| 17 | So he began to involve them in some of the decisionmaking about how their environment might be improved , their needs met . |
| 18 | What need did he have to justify himself to this pampered youth ? |
| 19 | Did he have to fix her with that piercing scrutiny ? |
| 20 | Certainly , this was the way he needed to present it for domestic consumption , for this new alliance and the concession of territory for military use by a foreign power scarcely seemed consistent with the many hours and column inches he had devoted to demonizing the western democracies and to denouncing the British " occupation " of Gibraltar . |
| 21 | Patiently occupied with his household tasks and with his sketching of Willem , it amused him to notice that ‘ already he seems to oppose himself to all social institutions and conventions . ’ |
| 22 | Whatever tasks a doctor performs , whether routine or unusual , he seems to measure it against this standard of ‘ the great save ’ . |
| 23 | I met Jenkinson briefly and he seems to have plenty of practical , if not authorial experience ; there is apparently a profile of him in January 's EFL Gazette . |
| 24 | He decided to smack her for this . |
| 25 | He managed to grab it with both hands as the force of the water , aided by his frantic struggles , propelled him into the yawning mouth of the tunnel . |
| 26 | You must have given the driver some bribe , Edward , I do n't know how he managed to help me at all , he was terrified of being caught . ’ |
| 27 | How often had he wanted to kiss her in those happy days at Talbothays ! |
| 28 | he tries to do it with one finger but he 's just not quite strong enough |
| 29 | Yeah the l that 's the laughable thing as well , he tries to criticize it on ideological grounds |
| 30 | Well , now , when you see the doctor , if he decides to mend you with one or two stitches , you tell him I said , could he please give you a stitch to take home in a matchbox ? |