Example sentences of "he [verb] it [vb mod] [vb infin] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , as Tweed had predicted to Paula in a similar context , he expected it would take him months to unravel the affairs of the world-wide octopus , INCUBUS . |
| 2 | If he has it will mean he either intends to defend the action or to admit the debt and make an offer to pay by instalments . |
| 3 | He says it would take him years to get the house the way he 'd like it . |
| 4 | If he feeds me the data he uncovers it might put us ahead in the game before the battle opens . ’ |
| 5 | He reckoned it would make you more … susceptible . ’ |
| 6 | He reckoned it would take him where he wanted to go — at least for a few weeks . |
| 7 | I mean the the stuff 's due to come in on Friday , he reckons it 'll get it 's the fourth on Friday is n't it ? |
| 8 | Perhaps he thought it might make me nip up a bit quicker with his morning tray . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Originally he decided not to take up the option because he thought it would upset me , ’ Miranda said lamely . |
| 10 | He thought it would give it a bit of glamour . |
| 11 | He thought it would do me good . |
| 12 | He feels it would put him at a disadvantage . |
| 13 | Every time he saw her it hurt him , and he knew it would hurt him even more tonight , to see her cavorting with her lover on the stage . |
| 14 | A little tickle , but he knew it would keep him awake all night . |
| 15 | In this ague-altered state Wallace perceived the whole symphony of evolutionary change with such immediacy that he feared it would escape him like a dream before he could write it down . |
| 16 | He meant it would make her look older and plainer . |
| 17 | He felt it would leave him little time for his writing for one thing . |
| 18 | During the time I knew him , he never took acid as he was very much afraid of it , and counselled other people against it in the sense that he felt it might disturb them psychologically , and felt that 's what might happen to him |
| 19 | He had forbidden the two girls to attend the Requiem Mass because he said it would upset them too much . |
| 20 | He said it would take me out of myself a bit . |
| 21 | So anyway we had us dinner so he says he said it 'll take thee half an hour to get ready wo n't it ? |
| 22 | All readers probably assimilate Gollum early on to the now-familiar image of a ‘ drug-addict ’ , craving desperately for a ‘ fix ’ even though he knows it will kill him . |