Example sentences of "[adj] [modal v] [verb] him [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That should give him a good laugh . ’ |
| 2 | that should give him the |
| 3 | That should take him a long time to . |
| 4 | This must make him an ideal employer for Mrs Brocklebank whom he reckoned to be on the lazy side . |
| 5 | But Foggerty says something like this might do him a lot of good . |
| 6 | Many heiresses could give him dollars , few could offer him the appearance and manner of a lady — it was that which had attracted him after the cruder charms of such as Maybelle Foy . |
| 7 | These will have been issued with a fixed redemption value and we must assume that the holder calculated that this would give him a return equal or similar to alternative returns currently available . |
| 8 | My preferance would be to play either Strachan and Rocky together with Speed in the Batty role , this would give him the opportunity to go forward if required plus utilise his good ball winning skills or if i had to choose between the two I would pick Rocky providing he was fit . |
| 9 | He could not wait to begin such a triumph , and prayed that the French would offer him the chance of glory before the arrival of any British reinforcements . |
| 10 | This will give him a yield of 10% on his investment of f50 . |
| 11 | Some will think him a spiritual butterfly , some an intellectual too ready to be hoodwinked ; but his searching has a definite progress to it , and the heights and depths encountered in this book make it clear that he is getting somewhere , often against his own will and inclination . |
| 12 | For instance , erm erm a good illustration of this is Locke 's erm erm argument on the right of inheritance and erm in this case I am quoting from the first treatise of government the right a son has to be maintained , has to be maintained and provided with the necessary the necessities and conveniences of life out of his father 's stock gives him a right to succeed to his father 's property for his own good but this can give him no right to succeed also to the rule which his father had over other men . |
| 13 | Should Major win , the staff at Number 10 will give him a special welcome . |
| 14 | What other books might there be that could give him a bit of elementary information ? |
| 15 | That could give him an extended , and perhaps productive , life as a county cricketer . |
| 16 | If the potential plaintiff has other dealings with the potential defendant , these may give him the opportunity to exercise rights of set-off . |
| 17 | That would give him a chance to reduce tax on lower incomes , which are so discouraging to people caught in the poverty trap . |
| 18 | That would give him a week 's grace at least , and then he 'd do the same thing again in some other place to stay untraceable . |
| 19 | Erm , er but er yes , so eighty thousand to er in equity portfolio , and that would give him a yield of maybe erm you know four percent , something like that after tax deducted , so er let's say erm say you know er say three thousand two hundred from that roughly , and |
| 20 | Now , forty years on , there was at last the technology — laser-tracking CD video — that would give him the finest sound with the finest picture-resolution in a medium that was compatible with the new domestic sound system that would , by the early 1990s , render the LP largely obsolete . |
| 21 | That will do him a lot better than this other guy 's plan . |
| 22 | This danger is well demonstrated by the early efforts made to help culturally disadvantaged children , many of which simply provided each child with a dose of relevant training during the pre-school period in the expectation that this on its own would give him the required extras for normal cognitive development . |
| 23 | The late professor , Mr. Cummyn , had received £100 a year for his services , which was clearly the attraction , and the true note of weary cynicism was provided by Mungo Graeme of Gorthie who , while acknowledging the youth of the candidate , suggested that ‘ a dispensation from the king for him to travell a year or two will make him a very good professor , as good as Cuminyn was ’ . |