Example sentences of "to [noun prp] [conj] he do " in BNC.
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1 | Terry has only been abroad once in his life — to Germany when he did his National Service . |
2 | Three times he had made it clear to MacDonald that he did not wish to accept his resignation — on the morning of Sunday 23 August , when he told MacDonald that he would ‘ advise them ( the other two party leaders ) strongly to support ( him ) ’ ; at 10.20 p.m. on the evening of the same day , after the Cabinet meeting , when the King ‘ impressed upon the Prime Minister that he was the only man to lead the country through this crisis and hoped that he would reconsider the situation ’ ; and at the Buckingham Palace conference itself . |
3 | But , he , he , does make it plain to Jane that he does n't know |
4 | In that instant it came to Ruth that he did know her ; but before she could be sure his hands left her shoulders and he went leaping round the side of the hummock , his long coat flapping , straight towards the spear men . |
5 | He would have liked to telephone Marshal Guarnaccia who had gone back down to Florence but he did n't want to block the line , and in any case the Marshal had said something about going to the prison . |
6 | The father did not immediately discover that the mother had returned to Canada but he did so in December 1990 . |
7 | MP Michael Clark would not confirm he had been threatened with the withdrawal of a Government trip to Canada if he did not vote with the Tories . |
8 | Wright , consistently in trouble this season , has insisted to Graham that he did n't throw a punch , but the Arsenal manager said:Graham said last night : ‘ I have now spoken to Ian and he insists he did not throw a punch . |
9 | Again and again he was at pains to demonstrate to Theo that he did n't live idly on his brother 's money . |
10 | If , on the other hand , B is already the heir of A , then he has received a benefit under A 's estate , and so far as that benefit extends he may be asked to make over property to C. If he does so , however , this is regarded as restitution of property from A 's estate rather than as an institution to B's own estate . |
11 | He wanted to be sure he could return to London if he did n't like his new job . |
12 | US Senator Larry Pressler , author of a 1985 amendment to the 1961 US Foreign Assistance Act under which aid to Pakistan had in October 1990 been barred [ see pp. 37764 ; 38726 ] , said in Delhi on Jan. 11 that he would oppose extending the amendment to India as he did not think that the country had a nuclear weapons programme . |
13 | " The Shah wanted to go to America because he did n't know what Sullivan was reporting and did n't know what was happening in the US . |
14 | He told him how much of his pay he had saved up for today , how he would personally kick him all the way back to Newmarket if he did n't win , how he was a big beautiful bastard that could n't fucking lose , could he ? |
15 | And then she remembered what had happened to Alice and he did n't seem nice any more , just big and handsome and rather frightening , standing there in his tight jeans and his bright shirt , looking at her . |