Example sentences of "[verb] he [verb] [to-vb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did n't know he had to give him a little verbal back . |
| 2 | Or has he contrived to bring you out — |
| 3 | Has he got to pass it ? |
| 4 | The perusal of it swelled his heart with joy ; he found he had to read it twice , and the pleasure of its proclamation left him flushed from top to toe . |
| 5 | At the end of 1978 , when he realized the danger that Khomeini was inflicting on the Shah from France , Marenches say he tried to have him expelled from the country . |
| 6 | In one leading case Lord Denning said : " The court will not restrain the publication of an article , even though it is defamatory , when the defendant says he intends to justify it or to make fair comment on a matter of public interest . |
| 7 | ‘ Sister , that guy who threw up on you is here — says he wants to see you . ’ |
| 8 | So he 's decided he wants to collect them now . |
| 9 | I 'm not going to jump because he has decided he wants to meet me , ’ he said . |
| 10 | Owen was , he was aware , a hired man and not a member of the charmed social circle and if he wanted to get things done he had to do it indirectly by tweaking the inner social system . |
| 11 | As they made their way along the Jamaica Road to the tram stop he tried to reassure her but Carrie 's mind was racing . |
| 12 | Jealousy was wildly in her eyes but if Felipe noticed he chose to ignore it . |
| 13 | Could not believe he expected to get it through without having a formal appraisal system . |
| 14 | ‘ I remember he tried to tell us clouds came from the Steam Packet Hotel , in the town . |
| 15 | As soon as I heard he wanted to work we got going . |
| 16 | Mr Todd made clear at the weekend that he thought Mr Field was a bad loser , saying he appeared to think he was God 's gift to Birkenhead . |
| 17 | The disclosures reveal that Professor Roland Smith , chairman of BAe , wrote to Lord Young , then Trade Secretary , on the day the sale was announced , saying he intended to claim he was unaware of the secret correspondence between them on how to hide the £38.8 million ‘ sweeteners ’ deal from the European Commission and Parliament . |
| 18 | ‘ I suppose he promised to marry you ? ’ |
| 19 | Of course it must be agony for him to go shopping for me ( what does he do at the chemist 's ? ) , so I suppose he prefers to get it all over in one go . |
| 20 | I believe he continued to treat her long after he needed to , that he misled her into believing such treatment was necessary and that he faked his file notes accordingly . ’ |
| 21 | I believe he came to see it would not do . |
| 22 | ‘ Having a gun just means the other fellow feels he has to shoot you first . |
| 23 | Nothing he could have said could have terrified her more ; it meant he wanted to take her to bed as well as take her self-respect and her father 's company . |
| 24 | She supposed because he was ostensibly Lord of the Manor , he felt he had to do it . |
| 25 | In order to persuade them , Richard Baxter felt he had to tell them of his concerns about the army and the reasons why he felt he must go . |
| 26 | You felt he had to make it happen or die . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I bet he manages to land them on poor old John in the end . ’ |
| 28 | I bet he had to get it from out the back did he ? |
| 29 | Monument Hill was the last place he wanted to go to , but he knew he had to see it again for himself . |
| 30 | John did not have his brother Bobby 's ease on a platform but he had more integrity and honesty and he knew he had to do it . |