Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] him [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do n't suppose he had the strength left in that little body to fight back no more , though you 'd have thought they could 've saved him with these new pills they got . |
| 2 | Her stepfather , who had been there since he left home , drinking coffee and mineral water and reading the papers , turned his chair slightly , so that she would not be able to see his face , supposing that one adult male back would look much like another to those of Camille 's generation : his wife , he thought , would have recognized him from any angle . |
| 3 | Stephen Scobie , in emphasising the motif of sainthood in Leonard 's writing , completely omits reference to this key Jewish emphasis , which would have prevented him from some of his more questionable comments , such as the reference to them as ‘ social outcasts ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm sure he could have saved him with all the modern equipment we have . |
| 5 | Some memory must have stabbed him at that moment . |
| 6 | Nothing in our four days on the felucca with this sullen boy had prepared us for this , as nothing could have prepared him for that afternoon in Asyut . |
| 7 | It was just basically , one of those things , and Abbey paid out , because they said we would have done it , we would have accepted him on this anyway . |
| 8 | How on earth could she have accused him over that conversation with Salvo ? |
| 9 | His broad culture , his knowledge and understanding of Roman law , his extraordinary gift for cutting through technicality to perceive and define principle , would surely have drawn him towards this result . |
| 10 | She would have admired him for that , once . |
| 11 | He could never entirely regret it , because it reminded him of working with Willie , and the passing resolves he made as a grown-up to lose some of it always contained a tang of unease about betraying his professional qualifications in the eyes of a man who would have belted him for such a thing . |
| 12 | That would n't have surprised him at all . |
| 13 | But the Pharisees would have provided him with some of his most loyal and fervent followers , and would have been among the first to regard him as the Messiah . |
| 14 | They would have cast him in many a role in one of their plays . |
| 15 | His own inclination would have led him towards this first interview three or four days earlier . |
| 16 | After studying the option , or take-note , Roe replied on the 19th July , from Liverpool , pointing out that only the moderate Royalty and the advanced price of copper ( this was around £80 per ton for metal ) could have reconciled him to such an " unprecedented manner of attaining a Mineral lease . " |
| 17 | I would never have encouraged him like that . |
| 18 | So I must have failed him in some way , to make him not like me , as well as him failing me . |
| 19 | ( But Gillecrist , who might have advised him about that , was dead . ) |