Example sentences of "[verb] he [vb infin] [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the first time Harry had ever seen him do such a thing for himself , but then he had heard that staff were far less easy to come by since the war . |
| 2 | She smiled gently at him , letting him see all the love she had kept hidden from him before . |
| 3 | If ‘ that bloody woman ’ had heard him utter such a curse , she would have ripped into him with a piece of her mind , then he would have whipped her with his tongue , then this sop of a man before him would have got between them , and afore you knew it , there would be a full-scale war waging — and in the heat of the moment he might foolishly betray his devious plans to boot the lot of them out of his house and out of his life . |
| 4 | And I 'd like to see him get all the way back here because … just because . ’ |
| 5 | The experience of war made him question both the metaphysical assumption of an impassible God , and the hortatory patriotic moralism of many contemporary churchmen and political leaders . |
| 6 | She smiled grimly , let him sleep , let him get all the rest he could — he was going to need it . |
| 7 | And how dared he use such a method , and then have the gall to ask if it would have succeeded ? |
| 8 | What the hell did he do all the time , except drink ? |
| 9 | So why did He make such a pig 's ear of the climate ? |
| 10 | Not on that day or on any other day did he attempt such a sortie with me . |
| 11 | The famous British journalist and broadcaster , Alistair Cooke , recalled that at no time in his many years in the United States did he receive such a " blizzard of disgusted mail " from the old country . |
| 12 | And if Hasan was just an ordinary little boy , why did he have such an alarmingly high success rate in the prophetic-dreams department ? |
| 13 | Yet , what guarantee did he have that the Emperor was actually the begetter of the hydra project ? |
| 14 | Now how on earth did he say such a thing ? |
| 15 | But when he is away from his desk does he leave all the decisions about running the British economy to one of his colleagues ? |
| 16 | ‘ How come , if he 's the Devil Incarnate , does he spend half the book down there in that poxy little room ? |
| 17 | What sort of twisted thoughts went through my father 's brain at the time to make him choose such a name for the child I can not start to imagine , but that was the name Angus chose for his new son . |