Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] him [prep] " in BNC.

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1 After all , when our western doctor 's diagnosis or treatment turns out to be ineffective we may regard him as a useless quack , but we do not also conclude that the entire system of medical science is erroneous .
2 Tell him that you have decided to wage unrestricted war ; that , from this moment on , he is fair game ; that you may attack him without warning at any time ; that he will be at risk whenever he is in or near the school or club where the bullying takes place .
3 And not a murderer , whatever else you may know him to be .
4 Not for the first time he wondered why it should affect him like that , when he himself was fond of Chuck and admired him , too .
5 And Jesus , in his conversation with the Samaritan woman who asked him where true worship happened , answered that " God is spirit and they who worship him must worship him in spirit and truth , " for " the time will come when neither here nor in Jerusalem will men worship " .
6 I must regard him as … an ally ? ’
7 When my Cid saw that they who eat his bread were returned , he went down from the tower , and received them right well , and praised them for what they had done like good knights : howbeit he was full sorrowful for Alvar Salvadores that he should be in the hands of the Moors , but he trusted in God that he should deliver him on the morrow .
8 In fact he takes his role as guardian of these fey fellahin so seriously that perhaps one should regard him as the Brobdingnagian Mayor of Gumnutland .
9 Whether these past difficulties should debar him from the presidency was , he said , an issue to be decided by the US people : " We 're putting this in your hands , you get to decide . "
10 She was so ashamed of not remembering what had happened that she felt she must compensate him in some way , so she kissed his mouth and stroked his cheek .
11 I should describe him as an innocent .
12 Perhaps , thought Robert , I should sentence him to death .
13 Now , I must welcome him at the door .
14 This time they must send him to prison .
15 This would inevitably be slow-moving , but it was only seventy miles from Berwick , so that they must expect him before the town within the week .
16 These deliberate modernities should clear him of any charge of merely insulated ‘ ivory tower ’ escapism .
17 We had no sooner got out of the supermarket 's doors than the wee imp said he was tired and I must carry him to the car .
18 Sergius III had an illegitimate son whom he arranged should succeed him as pope .
19 Prime Minister Mahathir on Dec. 28 , 1989 , advised UMNO ( Baru ) that Deputy Prime Minister Abdul Ghafar Baba should succeed him as leader of the party and of the government .
20 Atrimonides gestured with his gun , indicating that she should precede him from the gallery .
21 He stormed : ‘ The FA should suspend him for a couple of years and if they ca n't ban the video then they should fine him every penny he makes out of it .
22 so it should keep him in order
23 If the Greens ever form a government , they should use him in the commercials advocating population control .
24 But because it is a writer who is giving us this , and a writer at the beginning of his career , what more natural than that we should see him as writing his way out of all this , as ‘ getting it out of his system ’ as we say , clearing the ground for work that will enact triumphantly his escape , his liberation , his hope .
25 Peter Denny , like his father before him , intended that his son should follow him into the business .
26 He was too concerned that people should like him to be really frightening .
27 He cared nothing for his wife and daughter and they must wipe him from their minds .
28 He will often apologise by overplaying the spastic idiot everyone around must suspect him of being .
29 On 5 November 1978 , four generals called Afshar saying they must see him at once .
30 It was because he told me he had seen a woman more beautiful than me , and said that if I wanted him as a husband , I must marry him at once !
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