Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] [verb] he [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A tough looker is not necessarily a tough fighter , and we should not do him the favour of allowing his warpaint to add to our problems . |
| 2 | ‘ Let's just call him a friend , shall we ? ’ |
| 3 | In any case , she thought , I 'll not give him the opportunity to try . |
| 4 | Better than me — though I might still teach him a thing or two — but the farm is a big responsibility for any young man , especially one with a London background . ’ |
| 5 | so I thought you 'll probably give him a bottle when you got here anyway , so I was going to give him one , it all depends when he got up and I thought you 'll probably give him one so I did n't |
| 6 | Some might even call him a hellraiser . |
| 7 | erm that 's the doubt and that doubt is going to be either borne out or shown to be wrong by the rest of John Major 's incumbents , so at the moment I 'll certainly give him the benefit of the doubt . |
| 8 | But as he had , I could only give him the answer he needed , without knowing for sure whether it was true or not . |
| 9 | She felt she could not tell him the truth to his face , but there was another way . |
| 10 | She could not tell him about Havvie ; neither could she speak the lie to him , not to Dr Neil , but she could not tell him the truth , for that would mean telling him who she was , and she could not tell him that , not here , not now ; it would spoil everything between them if he knew that she was the spoiled and pampered American Princess . |
| 11 | I told the hon. Gentleman that I could not give him the information for which he asked until October , when the 1991 population figures would become available . |
| 12 | so I just hope , it 's so annoying though , you 'd just give him a cuddle , lay him down and that was it , that was all |
| 13 | His nose and cheekbones protruded as never before , and he was paler than Helen , so pale that no one could possibly call him a darkie or black bastard , though they might legitimately have used the word bastard . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'd willingly give him the belt but he would n't take it . |
| 15 | She avoided returning to Matthew Blake 's table for as long as she could without giving him the power of knowing she was avoiding him . |
| 16 | ‘ Too bad you could n't tell him the truth — that whatever class that dress gets it owes to you . ’ |
| 17 | He still could n't spare him a drop of real hatred , though — Carter was the one . |
| 18 | Offcourse Howard Wilkinson could n't guarantee him a place in the first eleven and Mr Wilkinson told Strandli that if he wants to leave Leeds United that 's fine with him , but he wo n't let him go for ‘ nothing ’ . |
| 19 | The management of Roker FC could n't guarantee him a place in the side . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ They could n't deny him a priest and him in a place like that . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I could n't see him the room was full with smoke . |
| 22 | She could even forgive him the talk about having her committed , now that that possibility was safely in the past and she was making progress on her own . |
| 23 | If he suffers the same fate as Clark , it could well cost him a place in the squad for the most vital game in Newcastle 's 100-year history . |
| 24 | Beardsley , meanwhile , produced a performance of such craft , guile and wisdom that it could yet make him the saviour of England manager Graham Taylor — if only he would pick him . |
| 25 | In other words , he was still developing the characteristics that would eventually make him a character actor . |
| 26 | Killing him would only make him a martyr . |
| 27 | Mr Tsongas , a pro-business liberal , argued that to restart the campaign he abandoned three weeks ago for lack of funds would only make him a spoiler . |
| 28 | But when he sent his ambassador to see if she were indeed as beautiful as men told , the Venetians would only show him the princess at nightfall , in an unlighted room . |
| 29 | He 'd show her , and even if she did n't appreciate the work it would perhaps give him a moment to think , to recover his poise . |
| 30 | She would not give him the satisfaction . |