Example sentences of "would [verb] him [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 She 'd confront him in a matter-of-fact way .
2 Old Peter was off to a STBO Club trip to Warwick Castle and besides , we 'd pay him for the two barrowloads we liberated .
3 Such a ban on Hateley would debar him from the European Cup final in May , should Rangers overcome Marseille and then do well enough in their last Group A match , against CSKA Moscow at Ibrox .
4 In this case the mother submitted to the judge that to order the removal of the child from the United Kingdom back to Canada would expose him to a grave risk of being placed in an intolerable situation .
5 It was quite common for an affluent client to insist : " I 'm only interested in BES schemes , although a skilful dealer would tempt him into a short-term punt in a stock outside the BES .
6 The arrangement would bring him into the same stable as Hackett menswear , and people who mix in such circles believe that Lagerfeld , who designs for Chanel and Fendi , will also work for Chloe , Dunhill 's fashion label .
7 ‘ I had arranged with Sister Stevens that on the next occasion that Len presented with either a hangover or a stomach upset I would refer him to the occupational health centre where they would suggest counselling , as I believed Len was becoming a danger to himself and everyone else . ’
8 And hearing him Minch was pleased , for she saw that he was learning to understand others and would be ready for the harder lessons she would give him in the coming year .
9 Fifteen years later a man of 76 , thinking he would like to try satellite television , collected the requisite number of newspaper coupons which would entitle him to a 30-day trial of a satellite dish .
10 She was watching him so intently as he bit into it that he began to wonder if Smallfry was right to fear she would poison him at the slightest opportunity .
11 I told him I would contact him in a few days , but I never did .
12 This , according to Wolfgang , would have distinct advantages : it would provide him with a legal outlet for the ‘ voice of nature ’ , which he swore he had never yet indulged , being too honourable either to seduce innocent girls or have dealings with prostitutes ; and a wife would be able to tend his domestic needs — he admitted he was no good at looking after himself .
13 He was more confident than his first ‘ angel ’ that heaven would provide him with the best of both worlds , and he wrote jauntily to his second wife that he had prayed that
14 One day soon she would see him for the last time .
15 I would have him like a fucking Biafran .
16 Less than a year later he was embarked on a career which would take him from the industrial grime of Taibach into films and on to the West End with hardly a pause for breath .
17 Following his split with the SWP James and his small band of adherents joined with another small group , the Workers ' Party , and with the aid his close collaborators , Grace Lee and Raya Dunayevskaya , he set about the task of examining the Hegelian dialectic and Marxist doctrine , which he believed would lead him to a fuller understanding of the Soviet Union , and in particular , Stalinism .
18 Colin inspected the room looking for the clues , looking for the vital piece of information that would lead him to the same conclusion as Smith .
19 In 1952 in northern Greece he began making his own systematic digs , which a quarter of a century later would lead him to the royal treasures .
20 She was supposed to be pregnant and perhaps Scotland might still get its heir but would it be a male prince and who would protect him over the coming years ?
21 He 'd seen enough trees dose to the boundary to know he could use them to scale up , and his coat would protect him against the barbed wire .
22 A couple of hours ' leisurely stroll would get him to the Georgian capital shortly before dusk fell .
23 Mr Kinnock staggers under the additional handicap of having no ministerial experience which would equip him for the supreme office to which he aspires .
24 ‘ I would put him in the same bracket as Beryl Reid ’
25 I would put him in the same bracket as Beryl Reid . ’
26 When he left that he did wonder if anyone would cast him in a straight play but was fortunate enough to get Billy Liar .
27 The father appealed by notice of appeal dated 30 March 1992 on the grounds ( 1 ) that the judge had erred in finding that the removal of the child by the mother was not wrongful within the meaning of the Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction by finding that the removal was neither in breach of the rights of custody of the father nor of the mother nor of the Ontario court ; and ( 2 ) that the judge erred in finding that the mother had established that there was a grave risk that the return of the child to Ontario would place him in an intolerable situation and further that the judge would not exercise his discretion to order the return of the child to Ontario .
28 Further and/or alternatively , the judge said that under the provisions of article 13 of the Convention he considered that there was a grave risk that the return of the child would place him in an intolerable situation , and said that on that ground also he would have declined to order the return of the child .
29 That would place him in the top 1/2 per cent of intelligence for this country .
30 She slipped under the bedclothes and switched on the reading lamp , adamant that she would shove him to the furthest corner of her mind , but the minute she opened her book her brain started working again , throwing up images of him , the way he smiled , that confident knowing look in his eyes when he addressed her .
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