Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] he the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For my purpose I should like to call him the man in the jury box , for the moral judgement of society must be something about which any twelve men or women drawn at random might after discussion be expected to be unanimous . |
| 2 | She did not like to ask him the nature of his work , thinking that if he were something incommunicable , the effort of inventing a lie might crack him up completely . |
| 3 | He even suggested maybe I 'd like to show him the cut . |
| 4 | I loved him ; what more natural than that I should want to give him the chance to love me back ? |
| 5 | She did n't want to give him the satisfaction . |
| 6 | This would have given him the opportunity to be a restraining influence against the extremists . |
| 7 | The girl must have given him the elbow , Harriet decided . |
| 8 | Clearly some forward planning in 1992 would have given him the opportunity to organise his affairs and avoid many of his problems . |
| 9 | Hindsight says that if the Lotus mechanics had n't worked so hard and so efficiently and if Emerson had n't been able to race , Jackie Stewart 's two victories in the last grands prix of the season would have given him the championship . |
| 10 | ‘ That she should have given him the letter a week after his arrival . |
| 11 | Adorno 's recognition of the radical potential of what he called jazz ( see , for example , Adorno 1976 : 33–4 ) could have given him the theoretical space for such an approach ( it certainly means he has no logical grounds for the theoretical closure he operates , only a self-fulfilling pessimism ) ; but he fails to follow his quest into places where he could have found what he sought , and , more damagingly , he excludes the possibility of any other mode of critique than that associated with alienated individualism . |
| 12 | If that fool had known what it was , he 'd have given him the money ! ’ |
| 13 | Also , I may have given him the impression , with the urgency of youth possessed of strong convictions , that I wanted at all costs to have something published on this subject . |
| 14 | I would never have given him the sweet if I knew there was acid in it . |
| 15 | ‘ I believe it was a very fair offer which would have given him the option of walking away with his dignity , but he said it was derisory and there are no more offers to be made . ’ |
| 16 | These were the only wickets Martin took in the match , but his allround contributions would probably have earned him the Man of the Match award had such been on offer in those days . |
| 17 | This time there was plenty of evidence that could have saved him the trouble of the trip . |
| 18 | Should have nabbed him the park though ! |
| 19 | His discipline , his dedication , and his pursuit of excellence may not have made him the most charismatic of world class players , but it has made him one of the most respected . |
| 20 | They may not have made him the finest British light comedian since his hero David Niven , but at least they rescued him from an uncertain future in Britain where he may have ended up as a cross between Roy Castle and Ronnie Corbett . |
| 21 | You reckon Hatton would also have told him the river bed was full of stones one of which would make a suitable weapon for knocking off his informant ? ’ |
| 22 | She was gaping at him while telling herself that her mother would have told him the reason why she was here . |
| 23 | Then Baldwin saw him again and told hint that were it not for his age and his health ( neither of which had greatly changed in the preceding forty-eight hours ) , he would have offered him the vacancy , but as it was it had better go to Eden . |
| 24 | He was a good head taller than she was , and in other circumstances she would have judged him the heart-throb type , with his dramatic dark looks , reckless mouth , strong jaw and a piratical scar across one cheek giving his faultless right profile the touch of humanity it needed . |
| 25 | The small but select entry includes Carl 's Choice , several times a winner on this track , and Sneakapenny , whose last fence blunder at Garthorpe last weekend may have cost him the Men 's Open there . |
| 26 | In fact it has often been said that Halley 's reputation for atheism may have cost him the Savilian chair of astronomy in 1691–2 . |
| 27 | His companion was a head shorter and he was thin ; but a reader of character would have stamped him the more evil of the two . |
| 28 | She was less close to Gildas , whom she regarded with some slight awe , for she feared his irony and his sharp tongue , and would not have allowed him the slightest ‘ liberty ’ had he not cleverly , for he was very clever , ‘ set up , a conversation which led her , through a series of exchanges , into the danger area . |
| 29 | Would she have allowed him the use of it in any outside circumstance , anywhere that open sexual contact would be anything other than common and unremarkable , and was he being honest in trying to tap some dry spring of old feelings to further his own ends now ? |
| 30 | He believed she must have sent him the bill personally , wanting to meet him as much as he wanted to meet her . |