Example sentences of "he [verb] [to-vb] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Says another curator , ‘ Rusty may not have the vision to say , ‘ We need a Guido Reni at the National Gallery ’ he 's not the sort of person who could walk through the baroque galleries and realise they even need one , though if a curator went to him wanting to buy one , I think Rusty would certainly be supportive of the move , whereas Carter would basically have turned up his nose and said ‘ no ’ ’ . |
| 2 | But what made him decide to do something about it ? |
| 3 | Nor did he want to do anything prematurely which put a question mark against the potential of the United Nations or which unnecessarily provoked the USSR . |
| 4 | But what that means , is you can actually write an action plan , where you agree to do something , he agrees to do something , or she agrees to do something , and you work out your action plans . |
| 5 | He failed to discover one , despite extensive use of his right foot — the car being too refined to bark like an Alfa or fart like a Kawasaki . |
| 6 | His fingers would bend and there was still some strength in them , but his palm would n't uncurl and the tendons to his thumb had become shortened , giving him problems whenever he tried to pick anything up . |
| 7 | He tried to say something , but she walked away , towards Chalet Number One . |
| 8 | He tried to say something about being very happy ; his voice very strained . |
| 9 | So he tried to phone someone ? ’ |
| 10 | DeFreitas played a daffy stroke : he tried to pull one from Cairns which was not short enough . |
| 11 | He tried to get everything to grow that he could . |
| 12 | Trying to drive yours up , spread on the table , not on the carpet , cos you he has to move everything on the carpet it 's not so slippy . |
| 13 | ‘ That 's something he has to do something about , ’ = said manager Howard Wilkinson . |
| 14 | The initiative to set up the relationship often comes from the client though , at times , this is difficult because he has to approach someone in a very different social position . |
| 15 | When he has to deliver anything the man opens the door maybe half an inch . |
| 16 | He 's only aged eleven , he 's only got four years before he has to have something assessed anyway . |
| 17 | Unless you have married a man who is unusually attached to his mother ( which is another matter altogether ) , it will be unlikely to occur to your husband that he needs to do anything more to make his mother happy than to be a kind and dutiful son , who has given her sanctuary in his own home in her later years ; but if he is a man of feeling , it will not be difficult to persuade him of her need for his company : her need to be taken out for a run in the car with him alone sometimes , to be kissed when he kisses you when he gets home in the evening , and occasionally to be brought a bunch of flowers instead of you . |
| 18 | As he disappears behind a safety curtain of blue smoke he starts to say something , but he coughs on the smoke . |
| 19 | He starts to read one , clearly hoping to find the answer in the small print . |
| 20 | He bent to pick something up , then came round the side of the bed holding out the transistor . |
| 21 | He wants to do something to the camp . |
| 22 | But he wants to do something to the camp . |
| 23 | I mean if you live in a posh area , er , the student 's going to take a pride in what he 's done , because you know you can give him it every day of his life , and he , he wants to do something , but he wants to do it himself . |
| 24 | aye that 's exactly what he was on about , getting interviewed on that , I mean I 've see the trailer on it , they were showing them scenes , he 's sick of being typecasted as a hard macho man in films , he wants to do something different family films |
| 25 | Bob 's already indicated that he does n't , he wants to do everything he possibly can to avoid us having to affect service levels okay , and obviously the overtime is the one thing that really is , stands out as being the issue anything else cos I mean our salary costs are there , there or thereabouts erm with the temps in it , erm we know we 've got erm some temps . |
| 26 | Now he wants to thank everyone who helped . |
| 27 | He wants to say something about ‘ Sonnet ’ . ’ |
| 28 | Ask Mr. if he wants to say anything on the main motion . |
| 29 | A roof rack , he wants to borrow one for Sunday , cos Susan 's coming back look , anyway she asked me and I said no we 've never had one , I do n't think we ever had , I said I 'll ask Doreen , so I asked Doreen and she said yes we have , but I 'd have to ask Leslie first , so when Dee come back I said yes she has , but do n't say anything to her cos you might not get it , but she 's not getting that . |
| 30 | ‘ He wants to give everything all the time . |