Example sentences of "[subord] he [vb -s] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a delightful passage where he addresses himself to the role of dreams and faces out the difficulty inherent in medieval lore which others like Chaucer resolve through ambiguity : namely , that in a situation where some dreams were held to reveal truth and others to be the products of a disordered digestive system , it is difficult to distinguish true from false . |
| 2 | Although he mentions it to me , he finds he is unable to display this aspect to men . |
| 3 | He 's mad on polo so he takes me to the Hurlingham Club to watch him play . |
| 4 | ‘ Father is afraid I 'll die soon , you see , so he wants us to be married tomorrow morning . |
| 5 | If you are under 60 but your husband has reached 65 and is retired , he may be able to claim a dependency addition of £32.55 for you , provided he pays it to you or is maintaining you to an equivalent amount . |
| 6 | McQueen is happiest in the action sequences such as the exciting ‘ Great Escape ’ from the prison during a concert of French ballet music , and his subsequent flight through the jungle , surviving snakes , crocodiles , Indian blowpipes , and a leper colony until he gets himself to a nunnery and is betrayed by the Mother Superior . |
| 7 | In England and Wales this is done by the coroner 's court , as indeed it is in some States in the USA and in Canada , and in Scotland it is the procurator fiscal who looks into the matter and will , if he considers it to be an appropriate case , raise the matter at a fatal accidents inquiry in the sheriff 's court . |
| 8 | If he , if he says anything to me I 'll just have to tell him . |
| 9 | If he refers it to the Court of Appeal , Courtney may well spend a proper period in jail . |
| 10 | Like , if he takes you to some crap trattoria , he 's only expecting half an hour of the missionary position . |
| 11 | ‘ Perfectly correct , but the thing stores energy as well as transmitting it , so if he gets it to where he 's going , we 're in serious trouble . ’ |
| 12 | But what happens if he gives it to his wife ? |
| 13 | ‘ Well , I 'll go if he wants me to , but I do n't like meeting strangers . |
| 14 | He argued that " Your representative owes you , not his industry only , but his judgement ; and he betrays , instead of serving you , if he sacrifices it to your opinion . " |
| 15 | ‘ did use ( or keep ) ’ A person ‘ keeps ’ a vehicle if he causes it to be stationary on a road when not in use . |
| 16 | But he does , he lives in the churchyard , and he has done on and off , as you say , for a few years , and he 's been a bit of a most of the time he 's perfectly all right because he keeps himself to himself . |
| 17 | He is eager to cultivate such sales channels worldwide because he feels them to be an under-exploited source of revenue . |
| 18 | This process is analogous to a buyer at an auction paying more than he can afford because he allows himself to be swept along by the bidding . |
| 19 | I always feel that when he 's giving , , because he gives them to one , does n't charge for any |
| 20 | I 'm not up in all that , I 'm not in the higher class , I just vote because he wants me to . |
| 21 | In the former case there is no express threat of proceedings to be withdrawn if the defendant pays up promptly because he believes himself to be liable . |
| 22 | A devout Catholic , he has said this will be his last season while he devotes himself to his family . |
| 23 | He 'll want things to go on just as before , while he helps himself to a share of the takings . |
| 24 | You do n't really know whether he wants you to or not do you ? |
| 25 | It 'll be up to him whether he throws me to the dogs and I finish up in a debtor 's prison , or whether he turns into a guardian angel complete with halo and big fat cheque . |
| 26 | However , when he surrenders himself to the moods and atmospheres of the hills , something authentic comes through : |
| 27 | When he commits himself to an assignment — be it a poem , a book , a song , or merely aiding a fellow-scribbler 's itch , he does it with gusto — con brio , as he might annotate one of his scores . |
| 28 | Ackroyd 's truest prose occurs when he applies himself to the imitation of ancient and recent writers — a repertoire of others . |
| 29 | doubt when he gives them to thingy me bob |
| 30 | A devout Catholic , he has said this will be his last season as he devotes himself to his family . |