Example sentences of "i [modal v] [verb] [prep] him [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must think of him as English and belonging to my sister . ’ |
| 2 | I take my hon. Friend 's point , but I must say to him that it is not a matter for me . |
| 3 | I have had many pleasant discussions with him , but I must say to him and to the House in all firmness that to ask us to talk about justice as politicians is to go down a very dangerous road . |
| 4 | I do n't see why I should care for him as well . ’ |
| 5 | Well I know , I b I , I was thinking before I 'll wr I , I should write to him but now I , I 'm I 'm getting towards the stage where I want to write to him . |
| 6 | I 'll talk to him and see what he knows , if anything . ’ |
| 7 | I 'll speak to him if he phones up . |
| 8 | If he does call , tell him I 'll speak to him when I get back . ’ |
| 9 | I 'll speak to him and sort things out . |
| 10 | Mr Scott is here , so I 'll go with him and see you later … |
| 11 | ‘ I 'll get to him and ask him to take your call , ’ said Seymour . |
| 12 | I 'll work on him and try to bring him round . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'll write to him and see if he agrees with what you say . |
| 14 | Sometimes 1 would try to withhold my gift of words as the only way I could convey to him that he was withholding something I needed as badly as he needed my poetic ability . |
| 15 | ‘ So when he told me he had to go back home to Fyn to meet someone , but that I could go with him if I wanted , I gave him an ultimatum . ’ |
| 16 | I 'd stare at him and he 'd stare back at me and it made me want to shoot myself . |
| 17 | I 'd suggest to him that at least the place should be yours for life ; let the young man have it on your death . |
| 18 | I promised , you see , I promised I 'd go to him if he asked . |
| 19 | If I was you now I 'd go to him and give it to him , I tell you ! |
| 20 | All the stories I 'd read about him and heard about him from other caddies were true ! |
| 21 | I used to go to him and say , ‘ Bill , please try and get them to do this ’ , and he did fight for me quite a lot , but it was an uphill struggle all the way . |
| 22 | P. P. I used to go down a street and perhaps a week previously I had locked that fellow up and I used to walk past him and if they said anything to me I 'd say , ‘ Shut up and get inside . ’ |
| 23 | I used to look after him while he played with his favourite toys . |
| 24 | Well it was a town then but since then it 's been made a city , you see , and I got to know all kinds of people and one gentleman came in there , used to come every evening and write a book and er , I used to look after him if I happened to be that end and er , you see , and then he 'd say , oh just an exchange you know about the weather and just in general thing and then I 'd leave him and he 'd get on with his writing and one day he said to me . |
| 25 | I would stay with him and rear them . ’ |
| 26 | 2 S + V ( conditional tense ) + if + S + V ( past tense ) : I would write to him if I knew his address . |
| 27 | Er , I think it would be far better to have a streamlined regulatory system which would make the much cheaper and more efficient and I 'm glad that the honourable gentleman seems to be agreeing and perhaps he could try and persuade his honourable mefem member on the front bench that legislation , primary legislation is needed , I 'm glad to hear he 's working on it erm on on the second on the second point he made about the number of regulations , I 'm not sure I would agree with him that the best way of resolving this problem is to have less regulations er er though I would agree with the general er thrust of what he might be saying and that is that if the regulatory system was to concentrate on promoting higher professional standards and have less emphasis on rules and regulations then I think that would help . |
| 28 | Er I 've never had any dwindling intellectual powers er simply because I 've never had any intellectual powers in the first place , so I would agree with him that in all cases I find dealing with er matters of a er er er er of , of legislation er en enormously complex . |
| 29 | I shall beam on him as I serve him lunch and if the old bastard is particularly unpleasant I 'll be able to reflect on how bad he 'll feel when he 's unmasked . |
| 30 | I will speak to him and try to arrange this for you . |