Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [verb] him [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Should have told him to his face . |
| 2 | Also , had it been in the first instance the officers of Albinus , there was a need to consider the townspeople since it was they who must have supported him for his bid for the purple on the expectancy of rich return on his success . |
| 3 | Audiences might like to quiz him about his favourite sporting moment . |
| 4 | Maybe , if she could have accepted him on his terms … |
| 5 | ‘ A little thing could have set him on his way any time these past three years , and it would have had the same ending . ’ |
| 6 | I may have reminded him of his wife or daughter . |
| 7 | I would like to thank him for his considerable contribution to the company 's success over the last three years . |
| 8 | Now he stared from the partly eaten jam sandwich to the homely face of his grandmother and wondered if she would dare to murder him in his own home with Buddie sitting right there at the same table . |
| 9 | CHINA 'S hardline vice-president Wang Zhen died yesterday , just days before a meeting of parliament that would have retired him from his post . |
| 10 | Preston would have preferred him in his cloth cap with the old woolly cardigan he used to wear , or the long grey mac . |
| 11 | He is too full of hate even to be afraid , he would have accused him to his face . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ every citizen in whose presence a breach of the peace is being , or reasonably appears to be about to be , committed has the right to take reasonable steps to make the person who is breaking or threatening the peace refrain from doing so ; and those reasonable steps in appropriate cases will include detaining him against his will . ’ |
| 13 | The child was christened Napoleon , Eugène , Louis , Jean , Joseph , and after his name in the baptismal register of ‘ the Imperial parish of Saint Germain l'Auxerrois ’ the Emperor wrote ‘ Son of France ’ , thus curiously reviving a custom of the ancien régime because , as he said : ‘ When an heir is born to perpetuate a national institution , that child is the whole country 's son : and this name will serve to remind him of his duties . ’ |
| 14 | He will find it less easy to defend his involvement with a cricket call-line service last summer , a job that some will say kept him from his Yorkshire priority . |