Example sentences of "he [verb] [to-vb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well why would he want to tell him all his failures , especially that he 's viewing Nick as an opponent . |
| 2 | Giving evidence , coroner 's officer DC Dave Hemes told how Mr Ryder , of Green Lane , Formby , gave no hint that he planned to take his own life . |
| 3 | Does he regret now avoiding the operation all those years ago , before he failed to scale his own Olympian heights in Rome and Seoul ? |
| 4 | Jackie 's face tied itself in a knot as he tried to remember his own mother . |
| 5 | He tried to develop his own Formula One team in 1976 but gave that up in 1980 when near to financial disaster . |
| 6 | ‘ Ah well , ’ he said finally , ‘ if he tried to get his own back for his son 's trouble , we will have to crack his head too , ’ and he swept off into the dance . |
| 7 | He has to wear them all the time , but he does n't wear them all the time |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | First he has to beat his former club , QPR , tomorrow night in the Coca-Cola Cup — a competition that can take Wednesday back into the UEFA Cup . |
| 10 | He has to build his own resistance to infections and he ca n't do that if he never meets them . |
| 11 | Unless you have married a man who is unusually attached to his mother ( which is another matter altogether ) , it will be unlikely to occur to your husband that he needs to do anything more to make his mother happy than to be a kind and dutiful son , who has given her sanctuary in his own home in her later years ; but if he is a man of feeling , it will not be difficult to persuade him of her need for his company : her need to be taken out for a run in the car with him alone sometimes , to be kissed when he kisses you when he gets home in the evening , and occasionally to be brought a bunch of flowers instead of you . |
| 12 | He promised to return it that evening . |
| 13 | I 'm not very sure it 's prudent if you 're indicating your own incorruptibility as a poet to put it in the future tense in the first place , and when you continue as Pope does ‘ Envy must own , I live among the great ’ as he starts to describe his own life and you realise he 's bringing in touches about himself which really have very little to do with the particular role as poet , it becomes quite clear that that depersonalisation process has not taken place in the case of Pope . |
| 14 | Watching Niall haul himself out of the water , she felt suddenly absurdly shy as , in one fluid movement , he bent to retrieve his own towel , draping it casually around his neck . |
| 15 | He wants to ask you some questions about the murder of a man here last night , ’ one of the men told me . |
| 16 | He wants to visit them all , while minimising his time on the road . |
| 17 | ‘ He wants to give everything all the time . |
| 18 | ‘ He wants to see you all . ’ |
| 19 | Now he wants to produce his own film using historic planes set in historic places like Oxford . |
| 20 | He 's continually er , persecuting them , and there 's many , many indications that he uses er , poisoned gas , or chemical weapons , and er lays waste their whole villages , and he 's seeking to do this because he wants to dominate his own country , and not allow any minorities a chance to look after themselves , and the same applies of course to the Kurds in the north , whom we have a direct responsibility , the international community , to protect . |
| 21 | ‘ He wants to play his own part in it as low-key as possible and that 's quite correct . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ You know just how stubborn the Colonel can be when he wants to get his own way . ’ |
| 23 | He turned to find the President , Max Klein , leading his party up the aisle and he hastened to take his own seat . |
| 24 | ‘ He came to see me several times and even brought Gordon [ Jackson ] along too . |
| 25 | He came to see me some weeks later explaining that he had failed to get a job . |
| 26 | ‘ I think he plans to kill us all with boredom , ’ d'Alembord told Lucille as they took the floor . |
| 27 | ‘ Edwin was always a joker but the point was that he seemed to undervalue his own work and to think less of my judgement because I did not . |
| 28 | I noted then , what I had noted earlier , that , at such a juncture , he seemed to sink his own personal problems and interests in concentrating on the troubles of the other person . |
| 29 | He seemed to inhabit his own world , set apart from them ; and Ruth hardly remembered it had once been her world too . |
| 30 | And while Souness paid tribute to Dalglish for all he achieved in his time on Merseyside , he intends to bury their former alliance for tomorrow 's 90-minute battle of wits . |