Example sentences of "[noun] [subord] he [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | *John wound up the toy car so he wanted it to go . |
| 2 | One 911 owner once remarked to me that he had n't been terribly impressed by his car until he took it on a racetrack . |
| 3 | Frodo can see that Boromir would be ruined by the Ring if he took it , and even though he would quite like to dispose of it himself , he refuses to allow Boromir to be burdened with it . |
| 4 | They had a movie idea they wanted to try out and there was a part in it for Ken if he wanted it . |
| 5 | Harry drew the wallet from his pocket and leafed through the pictures until he found it . |
| 6 | This session is the cause of much joshing in the Right Said Fred camp , him saying how he 'd make sure he had a hot shower first and primed himself for action if he did it again , his partners enjoying wiggling their little fingers at any opportunity and ribbing him for his perceived shortcomings . |
| 7 | How would the bank staff know if hed put it in the wrong way round … it just does nt ‘ suck ’ it in. unless he forces it in . |
| 8 | Well he , he 's on himself hanging over his car because he said it 's , it 's , that it was an inconvenience cos they were late for work , he suppose to be getting a taxi into work every day and back , but where 's his proof that he did ? |
| 9 | Explanations in the intentional mode express the relation between the action and the reason ( e.g. , John wound up the car because he wanted it to go ) . |
| 10 | John wound up the toy car because he wanted it to go . |
| 11 | As it turned out , Jimmy raced his carburettor car because he preferred it , and led until the Climax blew up . |
| 12 | I was so downhearted and at such a low ebb because he made it painfully clear I did n't figure in that great club 's future , however much I loved the place . |
| 13 | Do unto your enemy before he does it unto you , but always make sure his back 's turned ! ) |
| 14 | And he went to the bank and he got him three thousand pound ready and he got this beautiful car , he had n't it eighteen months before he wrapped it round a tree . |
| 15 | He was , Blanche knew , honing the next phrase in his mind before he uttered it . |
| 16 | What can be deduced from this is that religion as he understands it involves belief in an ordered moral government of the whole universe and in the fact that religious and ethical ideals should inform all our actions . |
| 17 | Ironically , it was the motor car which saved Huntercombe — not just as a means of travel but because the wealth of car maker William Morris , later Viscount Nuffield , secured its future when he bought it in 1925 . |
| 18 | You were glad when someone suggested that the butter or the jam should be cut up into rations even though you did see the hard selfishness in his eyes as he said it and felt sick because you knew that normally he was neither hard nor selfish . |
| 19 | He held her eyes as he said it , making her heart skid inside her , the touch of his gaze suddenly so soft , so caressing , that it suffused her entire body with a glow of sensuous pleasure . |
| 20 | To his credit , not a flicker crossed his eyes as he said it . |
| 21 | He closed his eyes as he set it down on its place , flattening it open under his left hand , and laid the index finger of his right hand upon the exposed page . |
| 22 | Then her face cleared ; when she had leaned across to kiss Richard she must have nudged it off , and no doubt she would find it in her car when he brought it back in the morning . |
| 23 | Paul stared dreamily at the stables , the horses , and the grooms and coachmen busily rubbing them down ; and compared reason with romance , phenomenology — a word he had not previously heard used — with the behaviourism of the mind as he knew it . |
| 24 | Approaching the signal box he mounted the steps , the hand-rail creaking as he used it for support . |
| 25 | James expressed the negative side when he described it as ‘ the theory which denies that there can be in a sensation any element of actual locality , any tone as it were which cries to us immediately and without further ado , ‘ I am here ’ or ‘ I am there ’ ’ . |
| 26 | But how can Sartre claim to found a general anthropology when he defines it solely in terms of his own society ? |
| 27 | Behind her she could hear the sudden roar of the car engine as he pulled away from the kerb , then the steady throb as he slowed it alongside her . |
| 28 | He nodded his thanks as he took it and flipped another cigarette butt into the toilet . |
| 29 | ‘ Do you know this face ? ’ said Isambard , turning Harry about in his hands to display him to them all , and taking him by the chin to jerk up his face to the light when he turned it haughtily aside . |
| 30 | Yes I mean er when I s er you know when I was on the Q E Two and was chatting with a fella and er he , they 'd been , he 'd obviously been cruising before and was on this cruise and er they were going on the er another Cunard ship a few months later , and it turned out that he was a hotelier who 'd bought a hotel in Swanage some years ago , I think he 'd had about seven bedrooms when he bought it and he gradually extended it , I forget how many he did tell me , and then he had a bit of a heart er attack and er his doctor told him to , you know , well if I were you I 'd just pack in your job which he did and that was about fifteen years ago he was I du n no if he was eighty or he was approaching eighty if he was n't and was in pretty good form , he was dancing , and er , you know , I mean there money 's no object . |