Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [prep] him [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | But in 1348 the Earl of Arundel , who was Warenne 's sister 's husband and sole legitimate heir , petitioned the king to revoke this agreement , for it would ‘ disinherit the petitioner of his right to premises which should descend to him in the event of the death of the earl … without lawful heir . |
2 | She should come with him to the United Reform Church in Florence and hear messages not of vengeance but of forgiveness . |
3 | Never mind , I 'll wait for him in the car . ’ |
4 | Lawrence watched Todorov in training and declared : ‘ We 'll look at him in the reserves against Derby and take it from there . ’ |
5 | I always carry some with me , but I hope I never have to use it because I do n't think I 'd get near him with the needle . ’ |
6 | He picked up the wafer of liquid crystal which represented himself and stared at the High Priest 's face , his own , wishing that his own image could confide in him in the same way that the Harlequin had . |
7 | A woman had sold her home and handed over to her son the £4000 proceeds , on condition that she could live with him in the house he bought with the money . |
8 | ‘ Then I 'd talk to him about the socio-economic roots of poverty . ’ |
9 | Uncle Tommy , along with the Fawcetts and John Thwaites from High Birk Hatt , used to work for him during the grouse season . |
10 | I used to talk to Him on the wireless — still do sometimes . |
11 | We used to refer to him as the man of principle . |
12 | All along Zen had been haunted by the idea that he might make some blunder which would hang over him for the rest of his life , yet here he was behaving like a dope addict . |
13 | If he was not at the reception hopper grizzleys , it is quite probable that she would wait for him at the entrance to Deep Level . |
14 | He often went out alone , Italian style , and Jeanne would wait for him in the street after the cafés closed . |
15 | I tell you , one night , if we knew he was coming , we would wait for him round the back and pitch him down the falls ! ’ |
16 | Alan Middleton has recently moved to Aberdeen with Christian Literature Crusade , pray that he would settle into his new role in that place and that Alan would be open to what God would do through him in the coming months . |
17 | Yet when it came to negotiation , who would speak to him in the name of France ? |
18 | In what he called " emphysema weather " , he did not venture out at all and in his last years one member of the firm , Peter du Sautoy , would report to him on the business being conducted — what books had been accepted , for example . |
19 | If the immigration authorities concluded that Mr Hussain 's assertion that he was undecided as to his long term intentions was pretended rather than genuine , clearly that would weigh against him in the primary purpose issue . |
20 | She had no way of knowing that he was thinking not so much of the next photo story she would submit to him as the necessary therapy it might provide . |
21 | A Mrs J. Minton , who taught conventional art , claimed that owing to the similarity of their names in the London telephone directory she was plagued at least three times a day with telephone calls for John Minton , whose art she did not like , and that open cheques would arrive for him in the post , commissioning pictures and with the note ‘ fill in your own price ’ . |
22 | His illness would stand to him in the other place too . |
23 | Perhaps tomorrow , before the matinee performance , she would go with him to the news-theatre for a sandwich . |
24 | Small boats develop emotions to a fine pitch , and she felt that she would go with him to the end of the world , if his outboard was always going to start like that . |
25 | If we would come with him to the great hall , he would listen to all sides of the argument and then draw his conclusions . |
26 | More and more she was acting like a bitch ; more than once she had to restrain the urge to hit out at him , punch him in his good-looking , smarmy face , especially when she would come upon him in the drawing-room sitting holding her great-gran 's hand , stroking it gently as if it were a cat , and that old woman sitting there and , like a cat , lapping it up . |
27 | Rory still went occasionally to Mass with her , and sometimes , as a kind of acknowledgement of how different he was from Michael , she would talk to him about the Church , and its importance in their lives . |
28 | She would listen to him in the way that no adult woman ever would . |
29 | Providing she is sufficiently impressed , she will mate with him inside the bower . |
30 | In his responsiveness to temporal processes he differed from many of his contemporaries and we can look upon him as the forerunner in literature of those , like Spenser and Shakespeare in the late sixteenth century , who were greatly concerned with the irreversible effects of time on the human mind and Spirit . |