Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] to him " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , if the male breadwinner is unemployed , more of the domestic tasks may fall to him . |
| 2 | After graduating , Keeton felt that the available fellowship should fall to him . |
| 3 | It was our bad luck that those chances should fall to him before we eventually had to bring him off . ’ |
| 4 | If the Secretary of State for Education and Science does not want to be charged with the suppression of evidence , the Leader of the House should appeal to him to come clean , go public and reveal the evidence . |
| 5 | He suggested that North Korea should surrender to him personally any time it was ready . |
| 6 | Again , with the threat of RICO , Drexel agreed to pay $650m , fire Milken , and , quite extraordinarily , to pledge that no client or employee should speak to him again . |
| 7 | Perhaps you should speak to him ? ’ |
| 8 | She was unhappily aware of the picture she must present to him : her long bare legs as straight as a ramrod ; her spine curved downwards from her elevated buttocks ; and her seat raised so vulnerably . |
| 9 | The directions that he may give must appear to him necessary ( but not reasonably necessary ) to prevent such disorder , damage , disruption or intimidation , and may specifically include instructions not to enter a particular area . |
| 10 | When he had gone , Tess felt again how stupid she must appear to him . |
| 11 | I must speak to him ! ’ |
| 12 | I must speak to him — I 've got to see him — ’ |
| 13 | For example , the modern female hostage who falls in love with her captor may not merely be manifesting the well-known defence of ‘ identification with the aggressor ’ ( particularly since it is not so much identification with him as submission to him ) , she may instead be giving way to her phylogenetic id and its demand that a female captured by a male should look to him for sexual satisfaction . |
| 14 | But in 1348 the Earl of Arundel , who was Warenne 's sister 's husband and sole legitimate heir , petitioned the king to revoke this agreement , for it would ‘ disinherit the petitioner of his right to premises which should descend to him in the event of the death of the earl … without lawful heir . |
| 15 | If the hero is meant to be a man of authority used to being obeyed , he should be shown as such and the other characters should react to him accordingly … |
| 16 | Wilkins is an excellent player , but the same rules should apply to him as the rest of us . ’ |
| 17 | But something bad must happen to him too . |
| 18 | I must attend to him straight away . ’ |
| 19 | If anything disastrous should happen to him , such as being dismissed from his job , the urge to seek solace in the whiskey bottle might be far stronger than his strength of will . |
| 20 | If something should happen to him , there might be no institution prepared to take over . |
| 21 | If anything should happen to him , there could well be a collapse in Indo-China and it was for this reason that Collins recommended that the US should continue to extend military and economic aid ‘ in order to check the spread of communism in South-East Asia ’ — but only as long as de Lattre was in Indo-China . |
| 22 | Chrissy , on the step beside her , was choosing which story she should read to him , and Annie was in the sandpit , trailing sand through her clenched fist into a yoghurt carton . |
| 23 | The old man was sitting at table , the food lying before him untasted , when Rodrigo returned , and pointing to the head which hung from the horse 's collar , dropping blood , he bade him look up , for there was the herb which should restore to him his appetite . |
| 24 | Whatever the risk , she must go to him and tell him to go back . |
| 25 | Allan was involved with Environmental Issues from its start and much credit for its success must go to him . |
| 26 | Anyone who can rekindle a friendship should write to him at Flat 11 , Grove Court , Cooden Drive , Bexhill , Sussex or ring him at 0424–212456 . |
| 27 | Canon Healey has asked that Hospitality members should write to him as soon as possible with nominations for the duties of matron and chief handmade to the pilgrimage , both roles previously carried out by Mrs McDermott . |
| 28 | But it was impossible that she should write to him . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | He agreed to do homage so long as it was spelt out that Aquitaine should belong to him and his heirs for ever . |