Example sentences of "he [verb] [to-vb] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Part of him longed to tell her the true tale , though , sending up the dour moralistic headmaster and the schoolgirl 's screams at the sight of a perfectly natural part of his body . |
| 2 | So he agreed to give her the camera , show her how to use it ; he 'd make sure the family were out the afternoon she came round to get the film developed . |
| 3 | So he agreed to call it a day . |
| 4 | He explains his situation to a mysterious guest , who promises to return his wife to him as long as he agrees to ask her no questions about where she has been ( Eliot later located his source for this in Alcestis , although that is really only of importance to him ) . |
| 5 | When he got to know her a bit better , he was further excited by her strength of will , her independence , her commitment to the Irish nationalist cause , and — best of all , he reckoned — her utterly straight-faced enthusiasm for his explorations of the Celtic spirit-world . |
| 6 | Stevie cos he tried to fry himself the other week |
| 7 | He tried to sell him a picture . |
| 8 | He tried to sell me a Pottz picture . |
| 9 | He tried to remember what the weather had been like in the last week and realized he had no idea ; like many city-dwellers he had moved from flat to car to office without registering any variation . |
| 10 | Changez , being at heart a traditional Muslim , explained the teachings of the Koran on this subject to her , and then , when words were not sufficient to convince her , he tried to give her a whack . |
| 11 | He dismissed the question as so much supposition , but when he tried to give her a reassuring hug she wriggled free and went out on to the balcony to join the others . |
| 12 | He took care never to stay with her for more than twenty minutes , obeying both the spirit and the letter of Anthony 's orders , but he tried to give her a clear account of the eight days Kesselring had spent in the witness box , watching her face all the time for signs of boredom or exhaustion . |
| 13 | Wycliffe wanted her to talk , not merely to answer questions , and he tried to give her a new lead . |
| 14 | He only mentioned his wife to tell me he 'd just bought her something new to wear and he tried to give me the impression his brother-in-law was something of a poor fish because he could n't make ends meet . ’ |
| 15 | And then he tried to give us the slip and run off . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Tonight he tried to imagine what the Corsican looked like in a rage . |
| 18 | He tried to imagine what the inside of the Conference Room would look like now , and found he all too easily could . |
| 19 | He tried to imagine what the woman with short hair would look like with it long . |
| 20 | Indenbaum knew how badly Modigliani needed money so he tried to offer him a sum within his means for the beautiful oil , but Modigliani was offended and obliged Indenbaum to accept the portrait as a present . |
| 21 | He tried to find himself a new girl to take his mind off it : some new girl , because Peg had gone wrong . |
| 22 | Well , these days I can reach the highest shelves of the house library , and walk into Porteneil to visit the one there , so I can check up on anything my father says , and he has to tell me the truth . |
| 23 | When he has to deliver anything the man opens the door maybe half an inch . |
| 24 | He needs to know what a ghastly little prick the boy was . |
| 25 | He needs to get himself a proper economics team independent of the accident-prone Treasury establishment . |
| 26 | Assuming he was in trouble , he stopped to give him a lift … but the attacker threatened him with an iron bar and forced him to take tablets which made him unconscious . |
| 27 | He promised to give me a silver coin every month for doing this . |
| 28 | He promised to bring me a few notes from which I could prepare a draft but he never did . ’ |
| 29 | He promised to send me a card . |
| 30 | He promised to send me a fucking picture postcard . |