Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He has just enough to buy his materials , to live , to have a working holiday every year , to manage . |
| 2 | He is about sixty and they should have retired him years ago , but he has nowhere else to go . |
| 3 | As the mysterious man following Blackeyes , Nigel Planer speaks at last , though he has damn all to say . |
| 4 | Harry Fischer comes out of his room in his shirtsleeves , hoisting his braces up with one hand , and holding in the other some letter or Ministry circular which has arrived in the morning post , and which he reads mockingly aloud to evoke their common derision at the obtuseness and bureaucracy of the world outside the office . |
| 5 | But he speaks the , the wo A Ann was her name , she said that he speaks too softly to go on to that . |
| 6 | ‘ When he feels all right to play again , I 'm sure he will return . ’ |
| 7 | I arrived there during the last day of it , and heard Dr. Bernardo pleading eloquently on behalf of the children he labours so unweariedly to rescue from the streets of our great cities , and also saw a gathering of the colporteurs gathered from the north and west , to get a word of encouragement in their laborious work of carrying pure literature into the homes of those who in numbers of instances live beyond the reach of the minister and the bookseller . |
| 8 | In truth , as I mean to tell Her Grace , he means very soon to put an end to your captivity . ’ |
| 9 | In truth , as I mean to tell Her Grace , he means very soon to put an end to your captivity . |
| 10 | In former times he might have been a nobleman 's factotum , now I dare say he is a film director 's personal assistant , and he leans forward obsequiously to catch his companion 's every word . |