Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] him would [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was against all he believed in and yet some inner part of him would stop at nothing to attract Jeopardy 's notice . |
| 2 | Part of him would have been sorry to hear that she had been shot , or sentenced to a long term of imprisonment in the filth of an Austrian gaol . |
| 3 | She looked at her friend and wanted to ask whether she had a few days to spare , because that was how long any description of him would take . |
| 4 | She was wailing now like a baby herself ; marriage with him would mean more of them , her body used every night , and no theatre again , ever . |
| 5 | I 'm absolutely sure that a chat with him would help you . |
| 6 | Now , in retrospect , she could see that marriage to him would have been a ghastly mistake , and that her reaction to discovering that he had been seeing other women while he had been engaged to her had had far more to do with wounded pride than with a wounded heart . |
| 7 | If we look at Gandhi 's teaching in this connection we see that self-alienation for him would involve ignorance ( avidyā ) of the true nature of the Self ( Ātman ) . |
| 8 | How could she have possibly imagined how dramatically her feelings towards him would have changed in so short a time ? |
| 9 | If ‘ that bloody woman ’ had heard him utter such a curse , she would have ripped into him with a piece of her mind , then he would have whipped her with his tongue , then this sop of a man before him would have got between them , and afore you knew it , there would be a full-scale war waging — and in the heat of the moment he might foolishly betray his devious plans to boot the lot of them out of his house and out of his life . |
| 10 | Any attack on him would bring down excommunication on you . |
| 11 | Speed must be thinking to himself right now … all the other players around him would have had one of these one-off payments when they joined Leeds . |
| 12 | Information about him would have to be gathered slowly and subtly . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , his master , all eighteen or so stone of him would loll back on one of the side seats , making no effort to drive . |
| 14 | But somehow she doubted it ; she was certain her interest in him would have vanished when she discovered he had no money . |