Example sentences of "[conj] he [vb -s] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a delightful passage where he addresses himself to the role of dreams and faces out the difficulty inherent in medieval lore which others like Chaucer resolve through ambiguity : namely , that in a situation where some dreams were held to reveal truth and others to be the products of a disordered digestive system , it is difficult to distinguish true from false . |
| 2 | The motorist is driving too fast because he does n't expect any children , or he expects them to be careful ’ |
| 3 | Although he mentions it to me , he finds he is unable to display this aspect to men . |
| 4 | His , though , is a concern with modern city life rather than with the truly rural , and it is in the sheer acreage of glass in the walls of the towering skyscraper blocks that he devotes himself to a series of studies on the diagonal . |
| 5 | He makes it repeatedly clear that he addresses himself to the Greeks who have little knowledge of Roman institutions ; but on the other hand he refers to Roman readers ( 6.5 1 .3–8 ) and is quite obviously looking at them over his shoulder . |
| 6 | The dream can seem so real that he believes himself to be wide awake . |
| 7 | Apart from and me , there is , a rather lugubrious ( though pleasant ) Peruvian , and , the French Canadian , whole reminds me of , in that he expects everything to be done for him at little cost in exchange for a good wit and ready sense of humour — also like , he plays the piano , with a special line in French songs . |
| 8 | The Primo Levi who is read by Fernanda Eberstadt is a man who is unable to write about Jews — though he does in fact write about them with great sympathy , believers and unbelievers alike — and who has no feeling for people whose background and abilities are different from his own , though the joy of Levi 's work , for other readers , is very often that he has such feelings , that he knows himself to be , while also knowing himself not to be , an ordinary man , a worker , a man who worked as an industrial chemist and who was no less of a worker when he wrote books . |
| 9 | ‘ My father 's made it clear enough that he wants us to — to — ’ |
| 10 | He has not only tarnished his relationship with Leeds United Football Club ( the club that he owes everything to including his 2.75M price tag ) , he also shit on the manager and those players who are left at the club , who helped him win a championship medal . |
| 11 | Then say this one should recover his losses , and that he owes it to himself to let us at least do that for him . |
| 12 | Does not the Prime Minister think that he owes it to the country to say exactly which other taxes he would put up to pay for his bribe ? |
| 13 | He 's mad on polo so he takes me to the Hurlingham Club to watch him play . |
| 14 | ‘ Father is afraid I 'll die soon , you see , so he wants us to be married tomorrow morning . |
| 15 | So he grows ashamed of harbouring a doubt to which he knows the answer himself , and he keeps it to himself , a fugitive thought , locked away from the light of open discussion . |
| 16 | Archery these days is a sport like any other , and he considers himself to be an athlete . |
| 17 | ‘ If the woman objects she is being hysterical and making a scene ’ ( 58/636 ) , an accusation that is demonstrated when Larissa and Armel quarrel about his extramarital sex life and he tells her to ‘ stop this hysterical rewriting of history ’ ( 76/654 ) . |
| 18 | He says it to you and he says it to me . |
| 19 | This perhaps represents Owen 's line of thought with him becoming more and more emotional to the middles of the verse , reaching climaxes and then , as it is as if he questions this freely running thought process , and he limits himself to so much emotion by the end of each verse . |
| 20 | And he takes me to an Italian restaurant in Mitcham . |
| 21 | I hold out my hand for the hat and he gives it to me . |
| 22 | And he gives it to him ! |
| 23 | And he pulls out another container of peace and he gives it to somebody else , that is n't how it happens . |
| 24 | And he gives it to him and the man goes and he goes what ? and he goes and he goes what ? and he goes and he goes what ? and he goes and he goes what ? and he goes and he goes get off of this train , now ! |
| 25 | If you just have that one lesson , and he explains it to your properly , and he sets you some exercises , on what you 've just done , half an hour or an hour ago , you 'll get through them . |
| 26 | So much so , that the foreman he sees it and and he commends her to , to Boaz his boss |
| 27 | But I mean you know he 's a workaholic and he expects everybody to be the same and then he works in there by the time I get there in the morning he works , works solidly right through until I leave there at night , you know . |
| 28 | As a general rule Green in his Guide recommends the skies be a quarter blue and three quarters grey , and he holds himself to this idea most strictly . |
| 29 | Breathless is his chattel and he orders her to his table . |
| 30 | If you are under 60 but your husband has reached 65 and is retired , he may be able to claim a dependency addition of £32.55 for you , provided he pays it to you or is maintaining you to an equivalent amount . |