Example sentences of "[pron] he [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is there someone he would listen to , such as a close friend or relative ? |
| 2 | Instead of carding someone he 'll put his arm round her and say Do n't ! |
| 3 | He changes slowly from messing Lennie around and playing stupid jokes on him , to treating Lennie as a friend , a companion , but someone he must protect from his own strength and stupidity . |
| 4 | Someone he could want without feeling he was betraying all he believed in . |
| 5 | And then he looked around to find someone he could send to the omda . |
| 6 | He wanted a home , someone he could love , someone he could relax with . |
| 7 | And Colt , after long days of torture , had recognised in the Colonel someone he could like , someone whose trust he would value . |
| 8 | They became lovers , but Valerie did n't know that Sanquest regarded her as a mere plaything — someone he could have a little fun with ; someone he could display before his friends as his latest conquest . |
| 9 | They became lovers , but Valerie did n't know that Sanquest regarded her as a mere plaything — someone he could have a little fun with ; someone he could display before his friends as his latest conquest . |
| 10 | He wanted a home , someone he could love , someone he could relax with . |
| 11 | but someone he could trust , someone who understood the language , someone who would afterwards be gone , who would n't remain as a perpetual reminder of his uncertainties , a fellow professional to whom he could comfortably think aloud . |
| 12 | You can tell him from me that if he wants me to stay in this urban backwater of yours he 'll have to provide me with an interesting occupation — and I do n't mean modelling your dress . |
| 13 | Generally the offence is straightforward as outlined but if an unlicensed pillion passenger on a motor bicycle persuaded the rider to take off his ‘ L ’ plates or the passenger took them off himself he would aid and abet the rider 's offence of no ‘ L ’ plates . |
| 14 | To clear himself he would have to implicate his young brother in the embezzlement of a large amount of money from the family business , it would break his mother 's heart . |
| 15 | Without himself he would have died , for which else , of them all , would not have stopped running after such punishment ? |
| 16 | Within himself he would have a sensation of liquefying with giggles and of becoming extremely thin , like a puddle . |
| 17 | ‘ Socialistic ’ rather than socialist , he tells himself he would belong to a political party if he could just find the right one to join . |
| 18 | Coffin nodded , telling himself he might remember this fact when people talked to him about ‘ neighbourhood ’ crimes . |
| 19 | He repeatedly told himself he 'd beat the stiffness out of it one day . |
| 20 | Afterwards , of course , he told himself he should have been able to predict what would happen . |
| 21 | For himself he will take a handful of the pencils they always leave out for you … |
| 22 | Being able to be himself he could talk to teachers from the heart in a way which was amusing , touching and inspiring . |
| 23 | He told himself he could take life easy : |
| 24 | Then , before Spain , Niki managed to overturn a tractor on himself He could have been killed ; he escaped with cracked ribs and bad bruising . |
| 25 | He drew in deep , deep breaths of air ; then , almost quietly now , he told himself he must find Martin . |
| 26 | One suspects that it is his concession to a profound loneliness , a loneliness which he dare breach only at great cost to his true self , his equilibrium as thinker/artist . |
| 27 | Sometimes , another dealer tipped off a director as to the identities of miscreants , so as to curry favour for which he might reap a tangible reward like extra leads . |
| 28 | Whether this was a firm intention , which he might reconsider , or a tactic designed to reveal potential rivals for the presidency was itself a component of the speculation . |
| 29 | When Rodrigo heard this it pleased him well , and he said to the King that he would do his bidding in this , and in all other things which he might command ; and the King thanked him much . |
| 30 | Much has already been said in the preceding pages about the subsequent progress through the learned hierarchy of the student who chose to become a muderris : with ability , luck , good connections or a combination of the three he would teach through a number of grades of medreses , eventually to turn to the mevleviyet kadiliks through which he might hope to rise ultimately to what had become by the end of the sixteenth century the principal office in the hierarchy , the Muftilik of Istanbul . |