Example sentences of "[pers pn] [subord] he [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was lovely that you came , ’ and she took his hand and raised her mouth eagerly to his as he bent to kiss her for the first time . |
| 2 | he tends to thump ye Before he tries to hump ye Then |
| 3 | The Welsh lad 's got this steady gaze on me like he wants to use my head as a rugby ball . |
| 4 | No it was just it was just that he , he , he wound you , he wound up , he said oh someone 's looking for you cos he wanted to get rid of him |
| 5 | And he tells you when he wants to go , or is it regular times of the day ? . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm sure the doctor will tell you when he comes to see you . ’ |
| 7 | He said it would n't be fair on me because he had to finish his exams first before he could get seriously involved with me ! ’ |
| 8 | ‘ He said that he could n't pay me because he had to maintain his cash flow for the London opening , but what he would do was to let me regard what he owed me as a stake in the show . ’ |
| 9 | He racked his brains till he finished teaching , and he racked them while he tried to sleep , but nothing presented itself . |
| 10 | Gassendi had suggested that it shows improper pride for a person who has feet to take him where he wants to go to ‘ yearn to fly like the birds ’ . |
| 11 | He reckoned it would take him where he wanted to go — at least for a few weeks . |
| 12 | The Englishmen gave Paddy a good hiding and made him so he had to stay in bed for a week . ’ |
| 13 | And er he went to him so he went to speak to this woman about the thing and she was member of the Co-op see . |
| 14 | What was it to her if he chose to conduct himself with duplicity ? |
| 15 | A sixteen-year-old girl ( they 're always sixteen in this story ) who had been having regular sex with her boyfriend , began worrying that he might lose interest in her if he had to keep wearing a condom . |
| 16 | And woe betide both of them if Leonard failed to phone her if he decided to stay out and thereby wasted the food ! |
| 17 | Belinda wanted to tell him not to worry about waiting for her if he wanted to return to Labour and Delivery , but somehow the words would n't come . |
| 18 | Paragraph seven making it clear put that an initial assessment has already established er it has already passed the preliminary assessment stage er and that er the director is undertaking the data collection procedure so that the site can be properly assessed and I do drawn er Mr attention er to that I erm have taken the opportunity during the last adjournment Chairman to speak to Mr about the appropriateness of the wording of his er er amendment and I believe that he he may wish to er move something which is slightly different er which will certainly er we 'll deal with that er if he does move that but er it clearly is the intention of this report and of the committee that when the work has been completed on the assessment of traffic calming measure in Shalford and its priority established , that we would then bring er another report er to the highways and transportation committee in response to this petition er as as indeed is set out in paragraph ten B and if Mr wished that to be brought forward through to council then that will be done but I leave to him if he wish to move an amendment to make it quite clear , since er I must say this motion is rather bland . |
| 19 | There were times when his own belief in himself as a great player could backfire on him if he failed to realize that he was having an off day , and he could look stubborn and bloody-minded as a result . |
| 20 | He could tell by the tone of her voice that today she would be counting , and woe betide him if he failed to reach the kitchen before his allotted twenty seconds were used up . |
| 21 | Shah said he wrote to Knighton when his offer to buy out the shareholding of United 's chief executive , Martin Edwards , was first made public , and received a phone call last Friday from Knighton , who asked him if he wanted to participate in the deal . |
| 22 | I enquired if he had volunteered for Pathfinders , to which he replied that he had thought about it , I told him if he wanted to come he could join my squadron . |
| 23 | No I did not , I asked him if he wanted to stay . |
| 24 | As he did so Jude asked him if he wanted to have a doctor examine him . |
| 25 | She 'd found her wallet of credit cards and flourished it under his nose , every fibre of her being poised to defy him if he tried to deny her the right to pay . |
| 26 | On September 22nd , 1870 , Flaubert bought himself a revolver ; at Croisset , he drilled his ragged collection of men in expectation of a Prussian advance ; he took them out on night patrols ; he told them to shoot him if he tried to run away . |
| 27 | The early Turbomeca Marbore IIs fitted to G-FUGA are unsophisticated single-stage centrifugal-compressor straight turbojets with minimal automatic controls , so the pilot is entirely responsible for their well-being at low rpm , and woe betide him if he tries to hurry them . |
| 28 | ’ I ca n't stop him if he wants to go . ’ |
| 29 | Then it 's that person 's prerogative it 's up to him if he wants to show everyone else where the water is . |
| 30 | Ask him if he wants to come and knock at my door . |