Example sentences of "he [modal v] [vb infin] them [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He may shadow them for two weeks , gradually getting closer and closer . |
| 2 | The presenter had been advised confidently by Coutts before he left London that , should funds be required , he should telephone them with the code-word Jabberwocky . |
| 3 | When the Hon. Gentleman has seen all the details , he should compare them with what went on in the valleys when he was a Minister . |
| 4 | May 29 , 1975 The defendant solicitors issued a third party notice against the barrister whose advice they had taken , asking that he should indemnify them on the grounds that they had acted on his advice . |
| 5 | If a potential investor should assume that ‘ preference ’ means that he should prefer them to the ordinary shares he would be sorely in need of professional advice . |
| 6 | If the hon. Gentleman can give examples of IFAs who have failed to give good independent advice , he should refer them to me , or direct to the regulatory body , which will take them up as a matter of urgency . |
| 7 | He should have them within the hour . ’ |
| 8 | They were left feeling drained , insulted and angry at a man who suggested he should bill them for the five hours he spent at their home . |
| 9 | Well , my mum said he should put them through the letter box . |
| 10 | It 's up to the owner to decide which way round to have the post and rails , although he must erect them on his side of the boundary . |
| 11 | He must introduce them into the plane of his own discourse , but in such a way that this plane is not destroyed . |
| 12 | And he 'll bring them to you himself . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ The horse seems to have improved since we put blinkers on him and he 'll wear them at Ayr . |
| 14 | Or I could open some tins of potatoes and he 'll fry them with corned beef and beans . |
| 15 | Once the Tunnel opens — or maybe just before it does and before the French realize what 's going on and think up a way to stop it — he 'll sell them for maybe a thousand times what he 's paying for them now . ’ |
| 16 | They bought out , this company have bought out a new tile and he said they 're looking for a sort of nice house to have as a sort of a show house and then he thinks he 'll get them for nothing . |
| 17 | He hums and haws for a bit then he says he 'll put them in his car and ask if I can keep them at Combe Court . |
| 18 | he 'll bore them to death . |
| 19 | He 'll take them to the top of the stairs and make sure they know when to go on — usually by the gracious means of a prod in the back . |
| 20 | They moved in , and invited William Morris to stay so that he might advise them on decorating and restoring the place . |
| 21 | At the very least , he might leave them with a few choice phrases to remember him by . |
| 22 | He began to note down suitable thoughts and epigrams on pieces of office copy-paper , not really with the intention of learning them off by heart , but with the idea that he might put them in his jacket pocket and touch them from time to time during the programme to give himself reassurance , knowing that if the worst really came to the worst he could take them out and refresh his memory . |
| 23 | He might buy them in one country and ship them to a warehouse in Rotterdam where they stay until he finds a buyer for them . |
| 24 | The court heard that Jones scoured the Penrhys estate after the burglary and took his friends to Mr Penrose 's house because he believed he could lead them to the culprits . |
| 25 | Chuck Sherman , who had noticed the excited gleam in his young brother 's eyes , grinned and punched him affectionately on the arm as he took the binoculars , but before he could lift them to his eyes a tumult of shouting and screaming broke out suddenly among the throng of Chinese pressing up against the iron grille below them . |
| 26 | By the time Roger had recorded from sixteen birds , he told me he thought he could detect regular differences between them so large that he could assign them to the two groups even without being given the code . |
| 27 | Charles II found land grants very convenient ; he could give them to people who at the beginning of the century would have asked for monopolies and he could feel confident that these grants would not rouse the hostility in England that monopolies had caused . |
| 28 | But even with his new London base it was impossible to gather enough talent from both his schools for the coming Christmas , so he advertised for dancers in the trade papers and took a chance that he could knock them into shape . |
| 29 | He could feel them at the small of his back , feel the scratch of the lavender garland which she still held . |
| 30 | Edward , thinking with relief that he could leave them to it now , began to withdraw , clutching the bottles that gave him a certain exemption , free to come and go . |