Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [verb] him [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If he 's a good boy I might make him Chairman of the board of Ferguson Foods ! |
| 2 | Yeah so er I 'll give him notes this time I think , and let him put the meat on the bone |
| 3 | ‘ If anybody in the jury can explain that letter , ’ said Alice ( she was not afraid of anything now , because she was much bigger than everybody in the room ) , ‘ I 'll give him sixpence . |
| 4 | " I 'll get him in. " said her boss , " provided that you sleep with me ! " . |
| 5 | And if his name be George , I 'll call him Peter ; |
| 6 | I would have thought , that after Sir Edward 's meeting , or Ted , I kno I do n't like to call him Ted , I know you know him intimately , David , so you can call him Ted , I 'll call him Sir Edward , but after Sir Edward 's meeting with Tariq Aziz , surely that was enough , was n't it ? |
| 7 | No he said , and I went over and I picked him up anyway , and sat him on , I sat him on my knee and I said we 'll just do some rhymes and I could feel him sort of going mm , mm , mm , like they do all pathetic and whiny , anyway Phyllis arrived and afterwards it was , by then he had calmed down and he was fine and I said wan na read the story now cos he missed it of course when he decided he could n't do without his car , so I said next week perhaps come without your car , I think I 'd won him over by the end but , it was a bit hairy . |
| 8 | One day one of the German officers stationed in Fontanellato , an Oberleutnant Bauer , called on me and asked if I could give him Italian lessons . |
| 9 | I could see him thumb through several papers before returning to the counter with a single sheet ; he made no attempt to invite me in or even to offer me a chair . |
| 10 | The entry of Joanna , who came in to consult her about the drugs needed to replenish their stock , put an end to her melancholy reflections , and after they had decided Joanna said , ‘ When Ian comes round this evening I thought I 'd give him coffee or a drink in our sitting-room . |
| 11 | I used to call him Pear , and one day I had this tattoo done . |
| 12 | ‘ I would give him sons , ’ said Primaflora . |
| 13 | I would give him English lessons . |
| 14 | I would give him companions for the years to come . |
| 15 | I would tell him scores from matches that were not being played , scores from matches that could never have been played , fanciful scores , impossible scores . |
| 16 | I would slap him Dawn . |
| 17 | I would teach him voice projection and the role that breathing plays in articulation . ’ |
| 18 | I shall call him Jack , the man we watched slowly disintegrate as the excitement of the campaign mounted . |
| 19 | The King must agree , and then I will give him Famagusta . ’ |
| 20 | One of the Signals assistants was male , a Leading Aircraftsman whose name I can not now recall , but I will call him Fred . |
| 21 | I can tell him things because he 's not involved , as you and Adams are . ’ |
| 22 | But he helped me all the way round and I hope I can do him justice tomorrow . ’ |
| 23 | Well I can ring him Monday ca n't I ? |
| 24 | Tess could not see his face , and could not understand why the head-dairyman himself should call him sir . |
| 25 | Of course , a birth certificate allowed a man to be a bit flamboyant , while the directory , which might bring him trade , needed to be perfectly honest about what he was up to … |
| 26 | Once again , it 's flagging below a level which would give him confidence for London , yet his form over shorter distances has been good , highlighted recently by a new course record of 38:20 at the Thorney 12K in Peterborough . |
| 27 | The remark was enough to tell her that he had kissed her brow , and that he was firmly hauling himself back into the anti-female attitude which would give him security from involvement with a woman . |
| 28 | In his last year at Devonport High School in Plymouth he set himself the aim of finding a job which would earn him £5 a week , because up to that time , his father , a Westcountryman , had never achieved such a princely sum . |
| 29 | If he had money , he would buy a case of beer from the bar which would gain him entry to the table . |
| 30 | Syria , or rather Antiochus , pollutes the Temple of Jerusalem on the eve of a final war which will give him victory over Egypt , but which will soon be followed by the deliverance of the Jews and by the Last Judgement : " And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake , some to everlasting life and some to reproaches and everlasting abhorrence " ( 12.2 ) . |