Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] [verb] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ His condition was obvious and they must have decided to pull him on the way home . ’ |
| 2 | I would n't have missed meeting him for anything . |
| 3 | If so , no one would ever have dared to tease him about his middle name . |
| 4 | She should never have had to face him by herself . ’ |
| 5 | If he had n't rattled her so much the other day , leaving her high and dry to sneak off and join his girlfriend , she might have remembered to tell him about the dratted ledgers . |
| 6 | Hanns must have replied teasing him about them , because he now wrote indignantly , ‘ My parts are definitely not all ‘ A Man ’ — one ( Pierrot ) is a lead , the fisherman is a big part and so is the Russian ; the other ( the owl , not the grasshopper ) is not so good . ’ |
| 7 | I would n't have gone to meet him under any circumstances . |
| 8 | I should have kept my temper , she thought frantically ; I should never have tried to push him into the stream in the first place . |
| 9 | Had I known that he intended to throw his claim to the leadership into the ring within a matter of hours , I would have tried to dissuade him from it then and there , for people never like being bounced , and least of all at a time of emotional stress . |
| 10 | No one capable of creating kangaroos could have resisted hitting him in the face with a divine custard pie . |
| 11 | ‘ One would have shuddered to send him to a public school , ’ said the lady , who had in fact sat long and agonized in calculation of the cost of doing so . |
| 12 | He would have liked to order him from the kingdom , send him trussed across the border with a curt note to his arrogant king . |
| 13 | Indeed , she would have liked to tell him about her father who was called Nigger Everard at school and spurned in his own family because his mother had been Creole ; she wanted to tell him about Feeny whom she loved ; how she herself was a musty , could n't he see it ? |
| 14 | I could then have pretended to notice him for the first time and have engaged him in conversation in an impromptu manner . |
| 15 | Matchsticks would have been the last one at the Pessarane Behesht camp he would have chosen to accompany him on this mission . |
| 16 | Otherwise one might not have minded asking him for a loan . |