Example sentences of "[vb -s] he [verb] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The responses to " What questions do you want to ask here ? " might range from " What happens next ? " through " What has he done to deserve this ? " and " What can he do about it ? " to " They 're both looking in this direction . |
| 2 | Sir Peter says he wants to do another pyelogram soon . |
| 3 | He says he wants to spend more time in his constituency . |
| 4 | But it deliberately avoids making them : 80% of its manufacturing work is subcontracted , and the company 's president , Takemitsu Takizaki , says he aims to raise that figure to 85% . |
| 5 | Tory MPs also felt that his performance ensures he lives to fight another day — and beyond . |
| 6 | From the way he talks he seems to regard either possibility as a remote contingency . |
| 7 | ‘ Why does he want to do that ? ’ |
| 8 | Why does he refuse to meet any groups other than farmers , as he confirmed to me in the House on 17 February ? |
| 9 | When does he intend to do that ? |
| 10 | All I could say was , with what special materials does he propose to undertake this great task ? |
| 11 | Why does he have to spend half his time with that drunken , brassy bitch ? |
| 12 | He claims he had to develop such a style for his latest role , as the couch potato host of TV Hell , last month 's one-night-stand featuring some of the classically bad moments of popular television . |
| 13 | Guardian reader Peter John , who has holdings in Dumenil 's Swiss , French and Spanish funds , claims he failed to receive any dividends in June and November as he expected . |
| 14 | Yet at the same time President Clinton claims he wants to do all he can to complete the Uruguay round of GATT trade talks , and is backing the appointment as GATT 's new director-general of Peter Sutherland , an Irish former commissioner of the EC who has just the sort of political push to get a trade deal done . |