Example sentences of "he [vb infin] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.

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1 Was this the end or would he want to dance some more ?
2 ‘ Why does he want to do that ? ’
3 ‘ Why on earth would he want to do that ? ’
4 ‘ Whatever would he want to do that for ? ’
5 ‘ And why would he want to do that ? ’
6 ‘ Why would he want to do that ? ’ he asked , clearly puzzled .
7 He did not want any services and did not see counselling help as a service a social worker might offer , nor did he want to share any grieving for his wife .
8 Why on earth did he need to know all the damned details ?
9 Will he promise to resist all attempts to increase the maximum permitted weights of heavy lorries ?
10 Nor did he appear to have any conception of a dated sequence .
11 ‘ Would he like to see that ? ’
12 Would he dare to grasp this chance and order the abolition of property within the community ?
13 Did he dare to impute such motives to her as he clearly had himself ?
14 How long will he take to write this one little sentence ?
15 Did he wish to forestall any suggestion that a French Catholic might not seem the equal of , let alone superior to , those mighty Lutherans ?
16 Or will he try to find some other way of funding such students ?
17 Not only would he have to destroy all evidence of his old body , but somehow transport himself planetside without raising suspicion .
18 ‘ Whey did he have to take all my teeth out ? ’ she mumbled .
19 Why did he have to ask all these questions ?
20 Why does he have to spend half his time with that drunken , brassy bitch ?
21 Why did he have to choose this moment to be nice to her ?
22 Why did he have to do that ?
23 Why did he have to do that ?
24 Why did he have to do that ?
25 No longer would he have to pin all his hopes on the random burglaries that he 'd carried out in that first couple of days , none of which had turned up anything better than a shotgun or a low-calibre target weapon ; those were useless for his purpose , and he 'd left them where he 'd found them .
26 Why did he have to make such a provocative remark ?
27 When does he intend to do that ?
28 How did he manage to ruin all her fine resolutions to remain cool and distant ? she asked herself .
29 How did he manage to juggle all the instruments and conjure sounds no one has matched ?
30 All I could say was , with what special materials does he propose to undertake this great task ?
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