Example sentences of "he [vb infin] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did not want to bring her in to talk to him , nor did he want to interview her in the presence of her devoted but sharp-eyed husband . |
| 2 | ‘ What does he want to interview you for ? ! ’ |
| 3 | Why would he need to do it in the dark ? |
| 4 | Yes , he had been to the Tower himself several times but did not like it there and still less did he like exposing himself in the Waste . |
| 5 | However , he already knew Joy and Alan , and the kettle was boiling , so I asked him to sit down , and would he like to join us in a coffin ? |
| 6 | Would he mind doing it for you , Mark ? |
| 7 | Why did he keep questioning her about boyfriends and engagements ? |
| 8 | How dared he try to blame her for what had happened ? |
| 9 | But could he have heard it from this room ? |
| 10 | Nor could he have said it in 1985 , when the uprating was 35p per child below inflation . |
| 11 | What need did he have to justify himself to this pampered youth ? |
| 12 | If he was ill , bad luck , but why did he have to ruin everything for me ? |
| 13 | ‘ Indeed , if Aristotle was a master of the art and handed his philosophy down to us very carefully , should n't he have proven everything in the most perfect form , especially when he insisted upon it himself — unless perhaps he intended to make fun of us ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Does he have to do it without Choak knowing , sir ? ’ |
| 15 | Did he have to fix her with that piercing scrutiny ? |
| 16 | But why should he have considered me at all ? |
| 17 | ‘ Could he have dropped it in the car ? |
| 18 | But how did the , what was puzzling a lot of people how did he manage to get it off the ground and into his pocket . |
| 19 | ‘ If he wants to kill you , why would he arrange to see you in a restaurant with the whole world looking on ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ In that case , ’ retorted Geoffrey , ‘ why did he agree to see him in the first place ? ’ |