Example sentences of "to [pron] he [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he went to them he would have to admit that he left her there . |
| 2 | And he did say to me he would like to have seen her again at and monitor this , this |
| 3 | If he wants to explain things to me he 'll have to come there to find me . |
| 4 | ‘ If you keep talking to me he might think we have n't seen him , ’ Benny hissed out of the corner of her mouth . |
| 5 | so I thought right , she said to me he 'd want a bottle , so come like ten past eleven , he 's like whinging , he 's drunk all his milk , then went up and come down and eat all his dinner and his pudding |
| 6 | He shows nothing that suggests to me he should wear a Liverpool shirt . |
| 7 | Well you said to me he could have it he said I 'll have tonight . |
| 8 | talking about I mean us six er pe peasants we 've got a landlord , you know , oh shall we go and kill him , he , he 's got all the authority , he 's got armed militia , the works , now to me he could have |
| 9 | As for the pattern of voting in the by-election in the hon. Gentleman 's constituency , there may be others besides myself to whom he might address that question . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , as I understand it , the individual may be striving towards mature object relations but finds himself in situations where those in authority to whom he may want to relate may cause him to regress towards infantile dependence . |
| 11 | And as the market process unfolds , with one period of market ignorance followed by another in which ignorance has been somewhat reduced , each buyer or seller revises his bids and offers in the light of his newly acquired knowledge of the alternative opportunities which those to whom he may wish to sell , or from whom he may wish to buy , can expect to find available elsewhere in the market . |
| 12 | Not only do they hold good against the trustee himself , and against his creditors during his life-time and his representatives after his death , but also against all to whom he may have transferred the property , and who can not show that they acquired it for value and without notice of the trust . |
| 13 | Just as compelling production of incriminating Reports in the hand of the insured may lead to a climate for settlement on the part of the defender , so a Specification properly directed to the pursuer or those to whom he may have entrusted information ( other than his solicitors ) may assist in compelling him to be more realistic . |
| 14 | Even so , that he was able to expel the powerful figure to whom he may have owed much of his victory in 1016 must say something about the effectiveness of the power base which he had succeeded in creating in England in the intervening years . |
| 15 | Many of his best-paying clients were American corporations in Europe , the sort to whom he would prefer to avoid making laborious explanations . |
| 16 | One had been an Egyptian , who had tried to keep alive the Egyptian Aten religion when it looked like disappearing in Egypt itself from about the year 1315 B.C. He had chosen the Jews in Egypt as a people to whom he would teach this religion . |
| 17 | Section 24 of the 1983 Act enables the Clerk to identify the person to whom he must send the writ . |
| 18 | ‘ I believe , ’ he wrote , ‘ that the sovereign , even when he rules by hereditary right , is only a delegate and representative of the people , for whom he exists and to whom he must devote all his care and labour … |
| 19 | John always remained very concerned about the designing of his own ballets but was never specifically credited with responsibility for their designs , preferring to collaborate with an artist to whom he could explain his ideas and from whom he expected further ideas to enhance the final outcome . |
| 20 | There must be one woman in the whole world to whom he could tell the truth . |
| 21 | If a potential philanthropist did exist , he might have found it a deterrent that there was no established leadership to whom he could talk . |
| 22 | He had never had anyone to whom he could talk about Mr Skinner . |
| 23 | Most of all , she was the only person he knew to whom he could talk without embarrassment , and it was a help that cycling side by side he did n't have to look at her as he tried to explain . |
| 24 | John — Augustus cast a sentimental eye on his retreat , convinced in his euphoria of pristine well-being that he had encountered one of nature 's radicals , someone to whom he could reveal his new true feelings . |
| 25 | Somewhere there would be a tutor waiting to see him — some easy-going , amiable man , not old , but a few years older than himself , with whom he could drink sherry on slightly deferential terms , and to whom he could apply for permission to hold parties , keep a car , and ride to hounds . |
| 26 | As co-ordinator of the council 's work he will be brought daily into contact with the council 's officers to whom he should become guide , counsellor and friend . |
| 27 | Maidstone now has a ‘ casework officer ’ scheme in which each prisoner has a particular officer on the wing to whom he can relate , as well as the services of the wing Probation Officer . |
| 28 | He is insistent that the only students who should work at doctoral level are those of first-class ability , who are independent of mind and inner-directed , so that they can work without much supervision , apart from ‘ a standing relation with a congenial senior to whom he can go now and then for criticism and advice . ’ |
| 29 | It seems that there has been no period of time during which man has endeavoured to conduct and control his affairs without providing for himself a worshipable entity or being to whom he can appeal , and to whom he has attributed powers of control over all that happens in the universe , particularly on earth . |
| 30 | I welcome the fact that the Secretary of State is getting in practice and asking the questions to which I give the answers at Question Time , as it is a situation to which he shall have to become accustomed . |