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Example sentences of "he [verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] [det] " in BNC.

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1	‘ He 's done more , seen more , to make him want to toss it all in than almost anybody his age .
2	Well why would he want to tell him all his failures , especially that he 's viewing Nick as an opponent .
3	He has to wear them all the time , but he does n't wear them all the time
4	He also has the rather unenviable job of being the go-between between the leadership and us , which means he has to tell us any things which ‘ are not done ’ ( for example that I ill-advisedly introduced Confucius into one of my examples ) , and also has to clear any demands we make with the leadership .
5	He promised to return it that evening .
6	He wants to ask you some questions about the murder of a man here last night , ’ one of the men told me .
7	He wants to visit them all , while minimising his time on the road .
8	‘ He wants to see you all . ’
9	‘ He came to see me several times and even brought Gordon [ Jackson ] along too .
10	He came to see me some weeks later explaining that he had failed to get a job .
11	‘ I think he plans to kill us all with boredom , ’ d'Alembord told Lucille as they took the floor .
12	Was he going to give her some note on performance , some idea he 'd had for a new bit of business in the play ?
13	Braidwood , however , found that Geikie was so well educated and so far in advance of the other students that he began to use him more as an assistant teacher rather than as a pupil .
14	Now all I 'm saying is that he undertook to give us those in forty eight hours .
15	He went to see her that day he took you to the airport .
16	And er , then he would carry all your goods in , in , I used to think it was wonderful how he managed to pick them all up in his arms and he 'd walk round to the next counter where your other , you had your other dry goods you see , your tea and sugar and your fruit and er then it would all be totted up together .
17	But I ended by clarifying Jesus 's role in the scheme of things by quoting , as far as I could remember , from a hymn , ‘ He came down on earth from Heaven , he died to save us all . ’
18	I thought he meant to take you both with him . ’
19	Had he meant to give them that special significance ?
20	‘ Did he come to see you both ? ’
21	He liked to finish it each morning before he fetched the new day 's papers .
22	He wishes to have it all .
23	what 's he trying to smash it all up for !
24	He said : ‘ He had to see me this time because I had a clue for him . ’
25	Matisse and all the others saw the twentieth century with their eyes but they saw the reality of the nineteenth century , Picasso was the only one in painting who saw the twentieth century with his eyes and saw its reality and consequently his struggle was terrifying , terrifying for himself and for the others , because he had nothing to help him , the past did not help him , nor the present , he had to do it all alone and , in spite of much strength he is often very weak , he consoled himself and allowed himself to be seduced by other things which led him more or less astray .
26	Regretfully , he had to let it all pass ; he knew such behaviour would have created a bad impression with editors and got him laughed at — the thing he most feared .
27	In the Furness area his eyes had been opened to the beauties of nature and he wished to portray it all .
28	Alexander 's first wife died , his two sons died ; the way he drank to forget it all and his mad rides at night to satisfy any lust , it was only a matter of time before such an accident occurred . ’
29	You could n't get fatter than he was in gold , and he wanted to give it all away to the revolution ; he was Malatesta 's friend , and Malatesta parted him from his money , sweet and easy does it -all they got for their pains was years of exile and prison , and a few dead policemen . ’
30	‘ He wanted to find it some electricity ! ’