Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [to-vb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Section 320 Companies Act 1985 provides that if a director of a company or its parent or holding company , or a person connected with him , enters into a contract with the company , under which the director or person connected with him agrees to purchase the company or assets ( other than cash ) of the company exceeding a certain value , then the contract must be approved in a general meeting by ordinary resolution . |
| 2 | He goes to move the curtains . |
| 3 | Liberal Democrat MP Simon Hughes on the Lamont affair WHEN he goes to see a Shakespeare play he wants to know what happens at the end . |
| 4 | As a gesture of goodwill , it should be suggested to the purchaser that he offers to sign a confidentiality undertaking in favour of the vendors covering such information . |
| 5 | BILLY Connolly 's got his out-of-work wife Pam a job in the circus — as long as he agrees to tear the tickets . |
| 6 | He agrees to cover the garbage with sand and to spray the area with chemicals to kill the flies and mosquitoes . |
| 7 | However , he longs to explore the nature of Celtic Christianity . |
| 8 | In doing so he has to maximise the output from his land as he is subject not only to man-made economic vagaries but also to climatic variations beyond his control . |
| 9 | I would say that , if his life is such that he has to use a drug , the welfare is poor , even if at the moment of using the drug there is no unpleasant subjective feeling . |
| 10 | He 's told he has to use a bucket and spade to empty the Atlantic ocean in 24 hours . |
| 11 | Some days , when it 's damp , he has to use the stick inside , too , and I can hear him clacking about the uncarpeted rooms and corridors of the house ; a hollow noise , going from place to place . |
| 12 | However there are a number of important controlling factors : firstly , the subject fixates centrally ( usually he has to report a digit which is presented in order to confirm this central fixation ) ; secondly , the stimulus is exposed for less than 200 milliseconds to avoid eye movement ; thirdly , the visual angle of the stimuli from the fixation point should be between 2.5° and 5° ( otherwise , confounding effects occur ) . |
| 13 | Please sir , Axl 's doctor said we 're to be nice to him because he comes from a broken home and he has to wear a kilt . |
| 14 | His arm is weak , and he has to wear a splint on his leg . |
| 15 | Any player who wins a US Tour event should feel himself equally capable of winning the Masters , but first he has to lay the ghost of history , which pervades every hole on the course . |
| 16 | Thus , if the consumer is dissatisfied with certain types of consumer service covered by one of these schemes , he has to refer the matter to a documents-only arbitration . |
| 17 | When a choreographer wishes to make a statement about dance that is inspired by a piece of music , he has to answer the question as to what style of dance is appropriate . |
| 18 | Instead he has to wait a week for next Saturday 's Victoria Ground clash with Swansea . |
| 19 | John Thaw himself hates beer , so it 's a real performance when he has to take a pint . |
| 20 | It has to be extended on either side of the stream , so he has to take a note of the timber required . |
| 21 | But first he has to set the number co-ordinates on his Scope before he can fire at any object . |
| 22 | Well he has to put the suit on , try it on in the shop , to make sure it , wear his shoes there cos even , the shoes he 's got might be alright with it . |
| 23 | This might not stop him reacting still more strongly in favour of theft , from the viewpoints of all who as an anarchist he believes to suffer from the institution of private property ; but otherwise he has to put the danger on the same side of the scales as the slight loss to the old relative , against the great gain to himself . |
| 24 | In any case , he has to notify the Drivers ' Medical Branch of the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Centre if he has any kind of disability when he resumes driving . |
| 25 | To ask the Minister of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food what proposals he has to improve the welfare of laying hens . |
| 26 | And he , erm , in fact puts in a greater investment than she does because he has to do the transportation , protection and everything . |
| 27 | In this fable for our computer age , a computer freak Joe Jenkins becomes obsessed by a computer game in which he has to save a goldfish . |
| 28 | ‘ He has to see a man , ’ I reminded her tonelessly . |
| 29 | We affirm on the contrary that he has to see every code including his own as criticizable in terms of ‘ Be aware ’ . |
| 30 | In the meantime he has to deflect the suspicions of his wife Cordelia , whose pretentious tastes , callous manipulation and faux -aristo accent Amis gives a thorough doing-over . |