Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
Previous page Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 61 | The feel of her body close to his in the carriage made him want to hold her , and he was tempted to cover her attractive though work-worn hand with his . |
| 62 | Her scarlet and green plaid outfit made him want to avert his eyes . |
| 63 | This , surely , would inflame Harry and make him want to make love to her . |
| 64 | Even thinking about their blotched yellow and black skins and their squidgy , floury middles made him want to throw up . |
| 65 | He felt inspected , plumbed , and like a moth in front of some anti-lighthouse , casting a shadow-beam , making him want to pull back , fly away from the intensity of those black , searching eyes . |
| 66 | Naught 's happened as 'ud make him want to help any white folk . ’ |
| 67 | A terrible , furious , impotent anger filled him , making him want to strike out , to shout and scream . |
| 68 | And again there was that sickly sweet stench of cooked flesh which clogged his nostrils and made him want to vomit . |
| 69 | By now he was used to spending longer and longer periods alone , yet in that moment when she walked away he always experienced a brief sense of loss that made him want to rush after her and beg her not to go . |
| 70 | What he saw there , lying on top of them , made him want to cry out . |
| 71 | What had Julius seen in the nineteen-year-old girl she had been five years ago that had made him want to grab her and marry her , without even really knowing her ? |
| 72 | The powerful bike between his thighs , the beautiful morning and the prospect of a full week 's work ahead , all made him want to burst with joy . |
| 73 | But she did not wake and for a moment Henry was flooded by helpless rage , a feeling that made him want to run to the bedside table , snatch up Elinor 's nail scissors and twist them into her neck , this way and that , gouging out blood and veins . |
| 74 | ‘ He 's done more , seen more , to make him want to toss it all in than almost anybody his age . |
| 75 | John got him to sit facing backward in the saddle , resting the foot on the horse 's rump . |
| 76 | His top-storey apartment had a glass dome which allowed him to sit watching the falling stars . |
| 77 | Those who gossip about him tend to meet with nasty accidents . ’ |
| 78 | When Adam was about eight his father had told him masturbating gave you scurvy . |
| 79 | Manoeuvres to block him failed to stop the Assembly endorsing his claim to form a government , and he went ahead on 23 June 1960 . |
| 80 | Indeed , an upbringing which gave Alexander II many qualifications for the tasks which confronted him failed to conceal the fact that he was not very gifted at all . |
| 81 | William Walker , an official from the State Department , remembered seeing him rush to catch a flight to Central America , having just got off a flight from Europe , unkempt , a flight-bag over his shoulder . |
| 82 | ‘ I 've sweated blood to get him to agree to see me at all . |
| 83 | Well , tell him it 's kind of him to agree to let me stay here , but I 'm turning down his invitation . ’ |
| 84 | The meeting recommends the Committee respecting the Lint Miller " to meet with the Lint Miller , and to show him such Evidence as they can recover respecting the weight of fflax in other Countrys — and Endevour to get him to agree to dress & deliver fflax for the same payment and by the same weight , and to report to the next meeting . " |
| 85 | The impact as well as the shock of the bullet wound knocked him crashing face down to the ground , his legs all mixed up with the trolley 's wheels . |
| 86 | It made him laugh to see her standing there , shaking her fist at the departing van . |
| 87 | Section 320 Companies Act 1985 provides that if a director of a company or its parent or holding company , or a person connected with him , enters into a contract with the company , under which the director or person connected with him agrees to purchase the company or assets ( other than cash ) of the company exceeding a certain value , then the contract must be approved in a general meeting by ordinary resolution . |
| 88 | Last night heartbroken Sandy , who lived with Brian at Didsbury , Manchester , said : ‘ Everyone who knew him has lost a part of themselves through this tragedy . |
| 89 | And worst of all , for me , is that , instead of fizzling out , my love for him has grown . |
| 90 | ‘ Whatever chance I had of getting him has gone because of the incredible publicity . |