Example sentences of "he [verb] [to-vb] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked John how he planned to do this shot and he said , ‘ Simple . |
| 2 | With the help of his mother and sister , he agreed to continue this work at home which would be set by the school and assessment centre jointly . |
| 3 | Bishops Hall doing it nicely under Brad and it 's good to see him in the saddle today because he was offered the ride on Morley Street but he 'd already said yes and he 's a man of his word and he agreed to ride this horse . |
| 4 | There Tyndale wrote to urge him to avoid any discussion of the Sacraments , but he failed to take this advice and was convicted as a heretic precisely on this question and was burned . |
| 5 | And he longs to meet this woman 's need . |
| 6 | Even when he tried to put this matter right , by putting his head forward and up , he was faced with an even greater difficulty because he saw again from the mirror that he was increasing the tension and pulling his head back even further . |
| 7 | So he tried to placate this man and he was n't going to be placated . |
| 8 | In Marx 's first draft of the plan for Capital there was a section on the State , but he proposed to approach this question from afar , after analysing capitalist economy in the strict sense of the word . |
| 9 | He promised to pass this idea on . |
| 10 | For example , a man who wished to make certain grievances clear to his boss decided that this was best approached , in the first instance , by writing to his boss because he realized that , were he to try to do this face to face , he would find it difficult to express himself without losing his temper . |
| 11 | He wants to do this rap thing does n't he ? |
| 12 | ‘ He wants to do this job above all else and that is a major plus , ’ a close friend said last night . |
| 13 | Since the intra-verbal support of the infinitive is a general virtual person , the speaker must also conceive the actual support to which the infinitive 's event is incident and the relation in time between the virtual and actual persons whenever he wants to use this verb form . |
| 14 | " He wants to take this stage , let him take it , " the ex-soldier said . |
| 15 | So in 1818 when a doctor called Herbert was told of a young man living on the island of Fetlar in the Shetland Islands off the north of Scotland who had been deaf and blind from birth , he hastened to see this object of curiosity for himself . |
| 16 | He came to see this play last week . |
| 17 | If , on the other hand , he refuses to accept this relationship and responds from his own adult ( Y ) on a ‘ do n't talk to me like that ’ basis to the adult or child of the first individual , this is a new stimulus and the transaction has broken down . |
| 18 | Culyer ( 1973 , p. 185 ) provides a useful illustration of a trial PPB system with respect to the allocation of expenditure in a police force , although he prefers to call this approach ‘ output budgeting ’ , a term used in the UK civil service ( see below ) . |
| 19 | Would he dare to grasp this chance and order the abolition of property within the community ? |
| 20 | The priest frowned and sighed , and then tried reasoning with the child , but only half-heartedly , his enthusiasm for this particular subject having long gone , so often had he had to cover this ground . |
| 21 | How is he going to take this news ? |
| 22 | How was he going to make this phone call ? |
| 23 | Tuning his psychic sense , he strove to analyse this feeling until he was virtually positive of its origin . |
| 24 | And in the middle of the night Boaz wakes up and he turns and he startled to find this woman , lying at his feet and he says , who are you ? |
| 25 | The metaphors which he employs to describe this process are curiously disagreeable , however . |
| 26 | He rung to apologize this morning and said that it will be sorted and you will have your cheque . |
| 27 | He began to study this idea , and he was to think later ( ‘ When I could think sanely again , ’ he said ) that this was one of the things that saved his reason . |
| 28 | For some time he struggles to explain this feeling , and eventually he realises that the taste is of course exactly the taste which he enjoyed as a small boy when his Aunt Léonie gave him a madeline dipped in an infusion . |
| 29 | it is clear from the statement of claim that the er plaintiffs retained the defendants from about the ninth of September to act in relation to the purchase of this wine bar which was then known as er the plaintiffs were obtaining finance from the National Westminster Bank in order to purchase this business and the plaintiff Mr had been engaged in long standing discussions with his bank from the earlier part of nineteen eighty five with a view to er agreeing financing facilities for the purchase of the various opportunities that preven present themselves and er he will say and that he makes clear in his witness statement erm that he certainly had understood that from these negotiations the National Westminster Bank were prepared to provide the financing that he required to run this business . |
| 30 | Why did he have to choose this moment to be nice to her ? |