Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [vb infin] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | All attempts to heal or tend him failed |
| 2 | When he names the most-important squad of his England career — the one that could make or break him — I do hope he includes the names of Wright and Everton 's Peter Beardsley . |
| 3 | Desperate to contact Molly , who is unable to see or hear him , Sam discovers that he is only able to communicate with a psychic named Oda Mae Brown ( Whoopee Goldberg ) , a charlatan astonished to discover her powers are authentic . |
| 4 | He felt as he always did on the moor , and especially on this spot and on Big Allen , peaceful , without care , without self almost , at one with nature and the past , and as if nothing that happened down there could hurt or vex him any more . |
| 5 | You strike me as an intelligent young woman and I refuse to believe that you were silly enough to go to Mr Riddle with such proposals unless you were in a position to either bribe or threaten him . ’ |
| 6 | Neither the personal circumstances of the patient nor a speculative answer to the question ‘ What would the patient have chosen ? ’ can bind the practitioner in his choice of whether or not to treat or how to treat or justify him in acting contrary to a clearly established anticipatory refusal to accept treatment but they are factors to be taken into account by him in forming a clinical judgment as to what is in the best interests of the patient . |
| 7 | It was her apartment , paid for with her own money , and she did n't need or want him in her life any more . |
| 8 | We are called to resist him ( 1 Pet 5:9 ) , not to know or understand him . |
| 9 | Do not truly know or love him . |
| 10 | ( a ) The Agency Principle Section 5 of the Partnership Act ( power of partner to bind the firm ) states that : Every partner is an agent of the firm and his other partners for the purpose of the business of the partnership ; and the acts of every partner who does any act for carrying on in the usual way of business of the kind carried on by the firm of which he is a member bind the firm and his partners , unless the partner so acting has in fact no authority to act for the firm in the particular matter , and the person with whom he is dealing either knows that he has no authority , or does not know or believe him to be a partner . |
| 11 | An act carried out by a partner in the usual course of the business of the firm will be binding on the firm notwithstanding that the partner concerned lacked the necessary authority unless the third party knew of the limitation to that partner 's authority or did not know or believe him to be a partner . |
| 12 | In his concluding essay , Urwick wrote : The club can catch him , but can not discipline him , the Boys ' Brigade can discipline him to a small extent , but can not catch or keep him when he most needs it ; the voluntary evening school can do neither . |
| 13 | And I 've no wish to offend or embarrass him . ’ |
| 14 | Louis and the two girls set out to catch and resecure him . |
| 15 | There can be little doubt that his tactics constituted an invitation to the French to catch and challenge him . |
| 16 | ‘ They 're using me to try and bring him down ? ’ |
| 17 | Maybe pathetically enough to use the child that grew within her to try and hold him . |
| 18 | And she acknowledged that part of her longing to be bustling about was to try and snap him out of his trance so that he could tell her where her sister was . |
| 19 | All I can do , Father Poole thought despairingly , is to try and give him the spiritual strength to resist such a temptation . |
| 20 | I ca n't wait around to try and engage him in further conversation because my bowels suddenly decide they want to wake up too , and I have to make a dash for the nearest bar and the toilets . |
| 21 | She decided to try and visit him . |
| 22 | Still an urge to hit out compelled her , a need to try and hurt him in retaliation for the pain he dealt her with his unhidden contempt . |
| 23 | One important Communist still eluding capture was Jose Weibel , Secretary General of the Young Communists , and the Joint Command decided to try and locate him through his brother Ricardo , a bus driver . |
| 24 | Laidlaw knew he could be overreacting from lack of sleep — it could have been a plan to try and break him down : a voice , no face . |
| 25 | He was incredibly strong and she closed her legs around him , driven by some instinct to try and pull him deeper within her . |
| 26 | And in what might have proved a momentous extension of this diplomatic sequence , it was at Hendaye that in 1940 , after the fall of France , Hitler met Franco , to try and talk him into joining in the war on the German side against the British . |
| 27 | Lee made a dive to try and stop him but it was no good without the collar and he fell sprawling on the gravel . |
| 28 | So , hoisting her bag over her shoulder with an element of pride that for a brief moment made her lose sight of how important it was to try and pin him down for an interview , she made for the door . |
| 29 | This was to be her special torture then : just when she had discovered what a selfish , callous , calculating person Mark was , everybody was going to try and sell him to her . |
| 30 | And er yes , I used to try and follow him as much as I could . |