Example sentences of "[pron] he [vb mod] [verb] to [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly ‘ Scarlet Ribbons ’ was one he used to sing to her ; here Sinead tremulously gives it an elegiac quality with tin whistle and uileann pipes and painful memories nearly overwhelm her halfway through . |
| 2 | The police are very unwilling to interfere in family matters and apparently when she threatened to go to the police whatever he told her he would say to them if she did report her daughter missing convinced her it would be useless for her to take such action . |
| 3 | She thought , I do n't doubt , that if she got rid of me he would turn to her , but she 's too fat . |
| 4 | Her imagination jagged with tumbling violent images of what he might do to her . |
| 5 | I try even harder not to think about what he might do to me if he ever got the chance . |
| 6 | Or what he might say to her … |
| 7 | He was already thinking of what he would write to her as he turned into the main road : |
| 8 | ‘ When I went to him , I had no idea that what he would say to me might bring him within the sphere of our investigation . ’ |
| 9 | He dressed quickly , all the time arguing fiercely with himself , working out possible conversations with his mother , and what he would say to her , the devastating arguments he would present … and all the time he knew that she would say her piece and he would agree . |
| 10 | He was pacing back and forth , mulling over what he would say to her , when the biology student knocked at his door for the loan of a shilling for the gas-meter . |
| 11 | And he had no idea of where to go , and how to find her — nor of what he would say to her when he did find her , either at the embassy or anywhere else she might have gone . |
| 12 | Well that 's what he 'd say to me , why did n't find out first ? |
| 13 | If a composer remembers to keep this audience entertained , think what he can say to them all at the same time . |
| 14 | He is not the sort of man you wait to see what he will do to you . |
| 15 | ‘ And if you could meet Swire Sugden yourself he might listen to you being an honourable an' all that , ’ said Otley to my amazement , I never knew he was a royalist . |
| 16 | He wondered if there was anything he should say to them , if there was anything they could possibly understand . |