Example sentences of "he [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ Not just now , ’ said Mrs Beavis , ‘ 'e 'appens to 'ave just gone out . ’ |
| 2 | Unless you 're like my Uncle Joe — a fox got his best foot , 'e 'ad to have a wooden leg , 'e was livid . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ 'E went to 'elp Miss Araminta with the coffee , ’ said Sid brightly . |
| 4 | ‘ You must not be surprised if 'e choose to ignore you , choupette , ’ said Madame when Ellie next visited her . |
| 5 | Well , it 's what you might call clerkin' work , writin' letters for business firms at 'ome , which do n't come too welcome to an active man like 'im , so 'e likes to get out as much as 'e can to give 'is gammy leg a walk . |
| 6 | ‘ 'E likes to know what everythin' smells like so 's he knows who to say hello to and who not . ’ |
| 7 | Says 'e 'as to change his clothes . |
| 8 | Though arrested in Denmark , Britain , France and Spain for narcotics and arms offences , al-Kassar had made himself too valuable an asset to European and American intelligence agencies for them to allow him to go to waste in prison , so that he went about his illegal business with a brazen assurance matched only among international criminals by his partner , Rifat Assad , younger brother of the Syrian president , who also owned a villa outside Marbella , and whose daughter , Raja , was al-Kassar 's mistress . |
| 9 | Pay for him to go to rehab . |
| 10 | And I convinced him to go to nurse , that 's why he was so long . |
| 11 | Told him to go to grey though , cos grey wo n't date , green will . |
| 12 | The slow deliberacy with which the wife commences her reply , with not a hint of offence in her reaction but rather a hint of care in selecting the right mode of reply , emphasizes her willingness to converse on the topic : So does her subsequent appropriation of a rhetorical device , the occupatio , a statement emphasized by the speaker feigning unwillingness or lack of freedom to express it : The monk too takes a moment 's pause before replying : again seeming to digest the implications of the wife 's words , or ( and ? ) to express , silently but with an eloquent action , astonishment at the wife 's ready invitation to him to continue to converse on this topic . |
| 13 | In 1986 , it was provided that an applicant should not be treated as having accommodation unless it was such that it would be reasonable for him to continue to occupy it . |
| 14 | Perhaps his former master will allow him to continue to read his papers ; or he may be permitted to read the papers of another in his own chambers with whom he is on friendly terms . |
| 15 | It was now just light enough on the roof for him to see to load his pistols . |
| 16 | Merymose 's story had made him want to lose himself . |
| 17 | The sweat was gathering in his brows , getting ready to slide down his nose and make a dewdrop at the end which would either stay there wobbling about very obviously and making him want to sneeze , or force him to draw attention to it by wiping it away . |
| 18 | Anxiety makes him want to pee . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Her scarlet and green plaid outfit made him want to avert his eyes . |
| 21 | This , surely , would inflame Harry and make him want to make love to her . |
| 22 | Even thinking about their blotched yellow and black skins and their squidgy , floury middles made him want to throw up . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Naught 's happened as 'ud make him want to help any white folk . ’ |
| 25 | A terrible , furious , impotent anger filled him , making him want to strike out , to shout and scream . |
| 26 | And again there was that sickly sweet stench of cooked flesh which clogged his nostrils and made him want to vomit . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | What he saw there , lying on top of them , made him want to cry out . |
| 29 | 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 ? |
| 30 | 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 . |