Example sentences of "[pron] he [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The night was still young , so whoever the female was who worked peculiar hours , or whatever the reason was that he could n't have seen her earlier — and by then Fabia was certain that ‘ someone he had to see ’ would be female — then she hoped he had a truly lovely time ! |
| 2 | ‘ Detective Eddy has received word from London that someone he wants to see is expected to be here today . |
| 3 | Well , it now seemed that there was someone he wanted to see in Glasgow , so he was taking this chance to fit that in . |
| 4 | For half an hour their talk was easy and pointless , and then Killion began to wonder whether Mary was going to stay in all night and he became uncomfortable , chatting pleasantly to someone he wanted to get rid of . |
| 5 | To extricate himself he had to fasten on the strike notices which the TUC had sent out and demand their unconditional withdrawal as a prelude to further negotiations . |
| 6 | John McLeish was in his office , Saturday or no Saturday , telling himself he needed to catch up on the paperwork . |
| 7 | A.C.G. Hastings was reprimanded by High Commissioner Girouard for using military means to effect the subjugation of the cannibal Tula tribe ; to redeem himself he volunteered to subdue the equally unruly Awok without firing a shot , and did so — by reminding them of the fate of the Tulas and giving them two hours to surrender their weapons . |
| 8 | Almost every interview-but there was somebody he wanted to go back and see . |
| 9 | The Founders and the closely allied management team , recently formed from the old executive committee and resolved to work by consensus , began to close ranks against Hayling and the intruding alien business world which he came to represent . |
| 10 | Before setting out such facts and relating to the sentences on the individual offenders as are material for the purposes of these appeals , it is necessary first to describe the procedure followed by the Secretary of State in exercising his power under section 61 of the Criminal Justice Act 1967 , and the steps by which he came to adopt that procedure . |
| 11 | Watkins concluded that these straight trackways , which he came to believe had been known as ‘ leys ’ , had ‘ landmarks ’ constructed along their route as a guide . |
| 12 | After a decade or so as a librarian , and a spell as editor of Books and Bookman in the 1960s , Smith travelled around America with a suitcase full of samples of remaindered copies , which he sold to bargain book shops . |
| 13 | I then asked him to form a Government , which he accepted to do . |
| 14 | He was a doctor 's son , Cambridge educated , and had certain class expectations which he failed to realise . |
| 15 | No Talmudic saying was nearer to him than that at the end of the Kiddushin : ‘ When a man faces his Maker , he will have to account for those ( God-given ) pleasures of life which he failed to enjoy , ’ and the Mezeritzer Rabbi commented , albeit a little more warily , ‘ You may reach a compromise between evil and good by enjoying legitimate bodily pleasure and serving God at the same time . ’ |
| 16 | There must have been a moment when Juliet had shown some spark of individuality which he failed to foster . |
| 17 | Roderick 's last , and possibly finest , contributions to this book were the Theorems XII and XV of Chapter 1 which were completed in 1985 shortly after the serious fall which perhaps precipitated the leukaemia from which he failed to recover , despite repeated blood transfusions . |
| 18 | After a lengthy loan spell at Leeds in which he failed to break into the first team , he signed for Shrewsbury in 1986 for £25,000 . |
| 19 | He spent the first three terms as a non-collegiate student ( a ‘ tosher ’ ) , preparing himself for Responsions by means of three hours ' daily tuition directed towards entrance scholarships to Balliol in November and Merton in January ( which he failed to win ) , and then to Lincoln College , which he won easily in March 1898 because of the mature quality of his style and approach in the general essay paper . |
| 20 | Mr Kinnock refused to consider circumstances in which he failed to win outright and was required to include Liberal Democrats in his Cabinet at the head of a coalition government . |
| 21 | Harry Bradshaw , who died in December at the age of 77 , was probably as well known for the manner in which he failed to win the 1949 Open as his considerable success elsewhere . |
| 22 | Instead they had assured the purchaser that the papers were in order , which he took to imply that the necessary certificate would be present . |
| 23 | We had a few concluding words about the literary scene in London , which he thought to have reached a pretty low ebb . |
| 24 | For the purpose of seeing whether his suspicions are well-founded , he may … stop any person carrying goods which he suspects to have been stolen , he may also examine the person and detain him . |
| 25 | He breezed through the ‘ school cert ’ ( which he had to take in UCS 's cellars because of the air raids ) got a First and a doctorate at Imperial then went on to research posts here and in America . |
| 26 | Stormy conditions against which he had to battle seemed to put new heart into him . |
| 27 | Beneath this box was another which he had to tick in order to receive the next three months ' editions of the newsletter . |
| 28 | He sat at the head of the table carefully scrutinising the document in front of him as if it were a religious text which he had to examine for scriptural errors . |
| 29 | After three years , during which he had to cope with the death of his youngest son , Mr Mathew was denied leave to appeal against the March 1984 judgment . |
| 30 | There was no point in past music with which he had to reconcile what he wanted to say , or to which he had necessarily to make reference . |