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 ! ’ |