Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] he [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He realised suddenly that he had to go to the bathroom . |
| 2 | The truth was that Harry understood Minter better than he cared to admit . |
| 3 | George got financial support from Parliament for troops to defend his Electorate and they did well enough to maintain his position , but he could not establish in office the ministers he really wanted , who would have been committed to full-scale involvement in Germany , so that he had to put up with a government which was not completely devoted to fighting on the continent of Europe . |
| 4 | The Revolution of 1688 lost D'Urfey the courtly connections he had developed , so that he had to turn to other means of support . |
| 5 | And then , horizontally down the spine , so that he had to turn it round to read it in the light of a street lamp . |
| 6 | A gentle breeze broke the absolute silence , moving the curtain so that he had to steady it with his hand . |
| 7 | His family gave him control of his own finances again , so that he had to resume making budgetary decisions in his everyday life , such as choosing between a meal at Claridges or a physiotherapy session . |
| 8 | This must have been a joke , as he laughed , or perhaps any mention of marriage was a joke to Gordon , who walked past Nenna and settled himself between them in a small chair , actually a nursing chair , surviving from some earlier larger family home and much too low for him , so that he had to try crossing his legs in several positions . |
| 9 | She stirred against him , and he mistook it for something like the small movements of a child asleep , and smiled down at her through the slow current of perfume rising from her black , turmoiled hair ; but she was awake and brought her head up , drawing away from him a little , looking at him , so that he had to hide his smile quickly , because it was n't something he had meant her to see . |
| 10 | But he was n't going to climb up there now and once up there see some obstruction ahead , some tunnel rim that might be just too low , so that he had to get down again and come back in like Damon had . |
| 11 | So that he had to get a job elsewhere — somewhere much better , ’ said Pickerage . |
| 12 | His face was smiling and , when you tapped the head , it rocked on a concealed axle so that he seemed to chortle at the absurdity of human antics . |
| 13 | The microphone was likely to exaggerate the idiosyncrasies of a voice , so that he appeared to say ‘ Jairmany ’ rather ‘ Germany ’ and ‘ Jeeoos ’ rather than ‘ Jews ’ . |
| 14 | It 's got to be important to the child so that he needs to know whether he means four times two-plus-one or four-times-two plus one , whichever way it is . |
| 15 | He then leans forward , and is guided up and round , so that he pivots to swing his hips round and onto the chair . |
| 16 | He was burrowing into responsibilities , looking for them almost , for they gave substance to that which bound Emily to him — and still the shock of jealousy pulsed occasionally making him shudder so that he blushed to seem to be shivering . |
| 17 | Predictably , the terse prose of Hemingway is found to lack the transformational complexities typical of Faulkner : which is not to say that Hemingway is innocent of transformations , only that he tends to use transformations of a different kind . |
| 18 | The King , visiting as a private citizen , was reticent about his political ambitions , saying only that he wanted to help Romania . |
| 19 | Perhaps you really wounded his pride when you turned him down so he wants to see you humiliated . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ ( 1 ) Where the seller delivers to the buyer a quantity of goods less than he contracted to sell , the buyer may reject them , but if the buyer accepts the goods so delivered he must pay for them at the contract rate . |
| 21 | He may be completely landless , or it may be that his plot is n't big enough and he has to spend part of his time , or part of his family has to spend part of their time , working for somebody else to get in some extra money or possibly renting land from somebody else . |
| 22 | He once lost £80,000 when a tour of Japan was cancelled suddenly and he had to pay the cost of transporting the show 's equipment back to Britain out of his own pocket . |
| 23 | His first cigarette of the day he smoked while he waited , extinguishing it two minutes before she was shown in and he had to tell her that her cervical smear had shown pre-cancerous signs . |
| 24 | The weight of the engine tugged his nose down and he had to keep tugging it up again . |
| 25 | He had walked all the way down and he began to walk back . |
| 26 | He felt she was about to laugh aloud and he wanted to join her , his every thought consumed with the miracle that had so suddenly happened to bring Ken back to them . |
| 27 | A Mandela book might attract many of these readers , but only if he wants to write it . |
| 28 | An expert misconducts himself only if he fails to decide the issue in the way he has agreed with the parties to do : see 13.13 . |
| 29 | Indeed the Law Commission Working Paper No 77 , Implied Terms in Contracts for the Supply of Goods ( 1977 ) , recognised three possible approaches : firstly , the bailor is strictly liable ( Jones v Page ( 1867 ) 15 LT 619 per Kelly CB at p621 ) ; secondly , the goods must be as fit as care and skill can make them ( Hyman v Nye ( 1881 ) 6 QBD 685 per Lindley J at p682 ) ; thirdly , the bailor is liable only if he fails to take reasonable care to ensure that the goods are fit which , as the via media of the two other approaches , was eventually adopted in s9 of SGSA 1982 . |
| 30 | Only cos he wants to snog . |