Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] him for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As one policeman remarked after a gouger had been treated leniently by a judge , ‘ Right , we 'll get him for every wrong move he makes ’ ( FN 9/3/87 , p. 8 ) . |
| 2 | Mm , they 'll last him for a long , long time . |
| 3 | Old Peter was off to a STBO Club trip to Warwick Castle and besides , we 'd pay him for the two barrowloads we liberated . |
| 4 | One day soon she would see him for the last time . |
| 5 | Mr Kinnock staggers under the additional handicap of having no ministerial experience which would equip him for the supreme office to which he aspires . |
| 6 | I shall ask him for the latest joke at the gates of heaven , . ’ |
| 7 | So that perhaps will interest him for a little while . |
| 8 | He 'll cry long and hard , and though you can soothe him for a few minutes at a time , hours can pass without you ever really silencing the cries . |