Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [to-vb] [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he has to behave a little badly . |
| 2 | He has to repeat the twice before I understand . |
| 3 | And I suspect also that from time to time the director feels that he has to placate the more hard-nosed and less imaginative of his many paymasters by producing something that could be regarded as promoting trade . |
| 4 | Philip Bond gives a wonderful and moving portrayal of jaded professor Frank , who does his tutoring job so well he has to watch the once passionate and sentimental Rita turn into a trendy talker whose empty phrases contain nothing of the real her . |
| 5 | To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what proposals he has to ensure a more equitable distribution of resources for the social fund . |
| 6 | Often he has to interpret a badly worded question , with no hope of redress if his guess as to the examiner 's meaning should turn out to be wrong . |
| 7 | Mr Gavron cheerfully admits that he has more staff than he needs to handle the currently depressed workload . |
| 8 | He has not said what return on capital will have to be attained from the station in order to service the loan to construct the station , unless he intends to make a very large Government grant available for that construction . |
| 9 | He seems to have a slightly democratic , even a socialist cast to his conscience . |
| 10 | He seems to have a very popular pub there . |
| 11 | The discourse analyst , then , is faced with several problems when he wishes to use the very attractive pretheoretical notion of ‘ topic ’ as ‘ what is being talked/written about ’ . |
| 12 | This prolonged under-funding strikes the GP most dramatically when he tries to admit an acutely ill patient . |
| 13 | Although he often uses occupation and length of time in educational institutions as the axes for his displays and charts , in the text he attempts to encompass a far greater range of differences based on gender , age and expectation . |
| 14 | ‘ Bawdy ought to be outrageous and extravagant , ’ Lewis had written ; and Green tells us , ‘ he proceeds to give a very mild example . ’ |