Example sentences of "he [verb] [vb infin] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He got his chance when the health and safety executive asked him to help publish this booklet promoting the safe use of trollies and so decrease in a biud . |
| 2 | Nor , until tonight , had he dared entertain any hope of release . |
| 3 | As we pass the finish line at the end of the first circuit , he lets go all the power in the car 's 333 bhp , the big bonnet lifts , the needle on the rev counter winds towards the red limit and , suddenly , your complacent reporter is hanging onto his seat-belt mounting with white knuckles , his notebook abandoned in the footwell . |
| 4 | But later , he lets slip another recent dinner date — with Andrew Lloyd Webber , Trevor Nunn and Richard Eyre . |
| 5 | He did travel some good roads . |
| 6 | I really believed he did love this suede . |
| 7 | On whom he did inflict most grieuous punishment . |
| 8 | He was lucky to survive , although he did suffer some permanent damage . ’ |
| 9 | Nevertheless , he did feel that Coastal had a strong claim to the latest 3cm version which could well have been made available to assist with the war at sea if large resources had not been diverted to equip the Main Farce of Bomber Command . |
| 10 | In the event , he did make some contribution to Toby and Laura 's education . |
| 11 | Unlike the Mantuan and Ferrarese madrigalists , Marenzio composed mainly for the pleasure of the performers themselves , not for courtly audiences listening to brilliant executants , though he did make some essays in the three-upper-part style associated with the Ferrarese ladies , notably the exquisite ‘ Hor chi Clori ’ in his Sixth five-part book ( 1594 ) , and he must have reckoned on good performers to tackle the chromaticisms of ‘ O voi che sospirate ’ ( Book II , 1581 ) . |
| 12 | Last night she trotted to bed , and he did sleep all night long , but he did n't go till half past ten cos Marie do n't put him to bed . |
| 13 | And yet — I am too hasty , too defensive — Yes , he did identify that mirage , or illusions , delusions very close in configuration to it . |
| 14 | Mind you it seemed that they had a test at school last week and he was n't terribly happy with it , he said he could n't understand it , he tried to explain to me what it was , but erm , it 's not , not easy , but Ga Gavin said erm , he said they 'd had a test and he said it took him time to get into it but once he got into it , you know , he did alright in it , I think he said how many he got , he did n't seem to do too badly , but he said Alex did n't really do anything and what he did do he thought was wrong so he did n't hand it in , he said and in actual fact what he had done was right , so I do n't know , I told , I told Alex to go and see , you know , and ask about it and sort of erm , apparently he did do that so at least he 'll know , but erm , it 's strange really because normally Alex |
| 15 | When he did do this , he satisfied the condition and the bequest became payable . |
| 16 | Yeah , he did do this . |
| 17 | Although most of Hudson 's tests were conducted on schoolboys , he did conduct some tests on schoolgirls , amongst whom he found a different pattern : |
| 18 | If he did eat any food he would either chew very slowly or just hold it in his mouth . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've had a little help from Barry Humphries in this , and I hope I 've paid him due credit , thought he did start that nasty rumour that he was me or I was him . |
| 20 | However , he did find that injured victims provided less complete reports than uninjured ones and that victims of robberies provided more complete reports than the victims of rape or assault . |
| 21 | And yet he did encourage those six-monthly sessions at Chequers when the think-tank would come and brief the full Cabinet , and smaller ones in No. 10 for the junior ministers . |
| 22 | So , I do n't know wha , we , he did get some but erm a lot of them he wished he 'd brought |
| 23 | He did say that with the mass attendance at around about nine hundred that we would only get one priest |
| 24 | He did mention that to me he did say that to me . |
| 25 | He did say that . |
| 26 | Well he thought your dad was buying that mould from Jim so he did say that , he , he 'd lent him that book on how to actually build them , but that 's |
| 27 | he did say that was after the pantomime . |
| 28 | But he did say that , er , it 'll take three weeks before he could and send along . |
| 29 | well I think he did say those ought to be in their file |
| 30 | He did n't know anything about this and he had to admit , he did say this ! |