Example sentences of "[verb] [subord] he [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think it looks like he wanted to get the thing over and done with before the Sabbath . |
| 2 | I do n't know if he meant to hit it so slow but who cares ? . |
| 3 | ‘ Our friend Kustow … do you know if he likes to gamble ? ’ |
| 4 | I do n't know how much he 's paying , I do n't even know if he wants to do it yet , it 's me who 's got to talk to firms |
| 5 | I prop a chair against the iron door every night , so that at least I shall know if he tries to get in without my hearing . |
| 6 | The nurse wants to know if he has to urinate . |
| 7 | At the age of 19 he sat the Queen 's Scholarship Examination , which he would have to pass if he wished to pursue any form of teacher-training after the initial apprenticeship . |
| 8 | He writes because ‘ if I do n't write , I suffer ’ ; he writes because he wants to know what will happen in his book ; he is , he says , his ‘ own reader ’ , prey to a phenomenon : automatic writing . |
| 9 | He has so far refused to indicate whether he intends to appeal . |
| 10 | He saved his friend and I do n't know whether he managed to run down any of the gang . |
| 11 | I I do n't know whether he went to jail over the job you know , in East and West . |
| 12 | Let's have a look , I do n't know , I think he , I think he likes her though , but I do n't know whether he wants to go out with her or not |
| 13 | I do not know whether he wishes to reconsider what on earth he means by saying that it is a flimsy excuse : either it is part of the law , or it is not . |
| 14 | His clothes steaming as he bent to light a cigarette from a blazing splinter on the open hearth . |
| 15 | They circled above him menacingly , the female laughing as he struggled to regain the line of his flight . |
| 16 | ‘ Invalid and invalid as in having no effect , ’ Fernando grumbled as he went to pour her a drink from a jug on the table . |
| 17 | The Ferghana party secretary was shot and slightly wounded when he tried to address a crowd ; and 5,000 men armed with automatic rifles and pistols were reported to have stormed party and government buildings in the ancient city of Kokand ( if Izvestiya 's report was to be believed , they carried a portrait of Lenin in front of them with a message written on the back of it which called for the slaughter of all Turks and Russians and ended ‘ Long live the Islamic republic and Ayatollah Khomeini ’ ) . |
| 18 | When they could hold it no longer the Collector shouted the order to retire to the next door : that which led from the drawing-room to the hall and where , several weeks earlier , the Collector had been lurking as he tried to make up his mind to attend the meeting of the Krishnapur Poetry Society . |
| 19 | ’ He was wandering now , his voice had dropped as he struggled to keep his thread and a restlessness at the back of the gathering broke out in shouts of ‘ Speak up ! |
| 20 | THIS is the book which Peter Mayle planned to write when he went to live in France . |
| 21 | Souness believes the sell-out Anfield crowd could make Spartak Moscow crumble as he bids to recover a 4–2 Cup Winners ' Cup deficit . |
| 22 | Accountability is not confined to policy matters , as William Whitelaw found when he had to report to an astonished House of Commons that an intruder had got into the Queen 's bedroom at Buckingham Palace . |
| 23 | All humour had vanished as he turned to face her , dropping her key on to the stand beside the door , his features stamped with hostility . |
| 24 | She stopped as he began to shake with suppressed laughter , then added indignantly , ‘ I 'm serious , Robert . |
| 25 | Yousefi was caught as he tried to cash a cheque in London . |
| 26 | Thunder rolled as he turned to ask Mariana where the President kept his Land-Rover . |
| 27 | A POLICEMAN responding to a 999 call was attacked as he tried to make an arrest . |
| 28 | Savage said he was rescued by members of the militant Pan Africanist Congress and army soldiers after he was attacked when he stopped to help children caught up in unrest between striking taxi drivers and police . |
| 29 | An elderly man , who was walking his pet , collapsed when he tried to beat off the Rottweiler . |
| 30 | Yousefi was caught when he tried to cash a cheque at a London bank but the name of Garawand was on a defaulters list . |