Example sentences of "would [verb] him [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Generally I 'd buy him a second-hand suit and take it up . |
| 2 | If I met Pam 's bloke coming down Briggate I 'd give him a wide berth . |
| 3 | When they saw Ruth , both men looked slightly abashed , like a pair of overgrown schoolboys , and Connor explained : ‘ This young man wants to learn the rudiments of sparring , so I said I 'd give him a few pointers . |
| 4 | ‘ I mean , if he ever gave me AIDS I 'd give him a Colombian necktie — ’ |
| 5 | Anyway he says he 'd pay him the same money as what he 's on there , 'cos he 'd have to really , would n't just say , say |
| 6 | She 'd tell him a few home truths about his condescending , heartless , authoritarian attitude . |
| 7 | After showing the boy how it was done , he 'd offer him the two iron rods — the hot ends towards him . |
| 8 | I 'd ask him the next day as we worked . |
| 9 | It did not displease him ; she would make him a suitable wife , and would know her place when , as he hoped still , he had elevated his position enough to enable him to support her . |
| 10 | It did not displease him ; she would make him a suitable wife , and would know her place when , as he hoped still , he had elevated his position enough to enable him to support her . |
| 11 | ‘ And you would make him a good wife . ’ |
| 12 | She would make him a good wife , ’ he added wistfully , looking into his own bleak future . |
| 13 | At a meeting of local Serbian leaders in Orašac , in mid February , the thirty-six-year-old Djordje Petrović ( Karadjordje ) was asked to lead the rebellion , although legend has it that he twice refused , excusing himself on the ground that his violent temper would make him an unsuitable leader . |
| 14 | ‘ That time would make him the best dog at the track , ’ said joint racing manager Jimmy Nunn . |
| 15 | His father had been right for once : she would make him the perfect match . |
| 16 | which would give him a good break really to get a few things done . |
| 17 | I 'm of age , after all , and it would give him a terrible fright . |
| 18 | It would n't do him any harm to take this ungoverned creature for a short jaunt in the fields and the experience would give him a splendid ascendancy over Inspector Burden when he walked into the station at nine-thirty . |
| 19 | The reality was that he could walk into any bar or restaurant anywhere in the world and no one would give him a second glance . |
| 20 | If he appeared in that door now , probably none of the girls here would give him a second glance : it 's all long hair and round shoulders now , is n't it , like yesterday 's flowers . |
| 21 | The Leader would give him a right bollocking , but there were no hard feelings , because everyone knew that really he loved the poor little bugger , with an almost fatherly concern . |
| 22 | I might just do that ; it would give him a nice surprise . |
| 23 | I would give him a fresh buttonhole every day to go to the university until he said he did n't like it . |
| 24 | Rutherford said that he would give him a 20-minute start , then drive back through the village and collect him . |
| 25 | Malinga lost on a split decision to WBO super-middleweight champion Chris Eubank in February and Benn hopes that an impressive victory would give him a psychological advantage over his great rival should they meet later this year . |
| 26 | When a man wished to know what a king should be like , his clerical advisers would give him an expurgated account of the careers of King David , King Solomon and King Hezekiah ; if a man aspired to be emperor , he might hear a little about Constantine and Theodosius and other imperial figures of the distant past ; but he would hear above all about Charlemagne . |
| 27 | He made himself as meek as a lamb , hoping perhaps that they would give him an extra morsel of food or some other favour . |
| 28 | My contract said very clearly that I had to have complete control of the making of the film , so I asked Darryl Zanuck if he would please replace me and I would give him the necessary time to find someone else . |
| 29 | This danger is well demonstrated by the early efforts made to help culturally disadvantaged children , many of which simply provided each child with a dose of relevant training during the pre-school period in the expectation that this on its own would give him the required extras for normal cognitive development . |
| 30 | Now , forty years on , there was at last the technology — laser-tracking CD video — that would give him the finest sound with the finest picture-resolution in a medium that was compatible with the new domestic sound system that would , by the early 1990s , render the LP largely obsolete . |