Example sentences of "it [modal v] [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | First of all , he 's got a general election coming up and we do n't know what its result 's going to be and it may disappoint him , he may find that the Parliament he has to work with is not going to be of the same cast of mind as himself . |
| 2 | Erm firstly because as I say it may prompt him into doing something if we write to him saying you 're making an application to court yourself . |
| 3 | It may enable him or her to highlight some salient point , or to focus pupils ' attention on a particular question as they view the next sequence . |
| 4 | But his conscience it may fail him and his heart it may give way , |
| 5 | The provision sometimes inserted in a settlement for giving remuneration to a professional man who is one of the trustees is open to considerable objection since it may give him an interest in incurring expense , and will , in any case , tend to make the other trustees leave the management mainly in his hands . |
| 6 | One view , which is supported by the judgment of Lord Denning M.R. in the Court of Appeal in Lonrho is that ‘ it is sufficient if the [ unlawful means ] conspiracy is aimed or directed at the plaintiff and it can reasonably be foreseen that it may injure him , and does in fact injure him ’ and the Supreme Court of Canada has since stated the law in similar terms in a decision in which Lonrho was considered . |
| 7 | If you want to stay with STG , I 'll be happy to arrange to have your work handled by one of the other partners although it may take him a little time to be able to handle your affairs completely on his own without asking you a lot of questions . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ But it may kill him when he knows ! |
| 9 | It may help him to take his wheelchair out at first : pushing it may help him to balance more easily . |
| 10 | It may help him to take his wheelchair out at first : pushing it may help him to balance more easily . |
| 11 | ‘ It may help him to see better . |
| 12 | ( 7 ) A constable must , on requiring any person to provide a specimen in pursuance of this section , warn him that a failure to provide it may render him liable to prosecution . |
| 13 | And it may find him for her again . |
| 14 | To publish falsely , of an Irish priest , that he informed on members of the IRA is not defamatory : it may cause him to be executed by terrorists , but the law offers him no way of securing a correction . |
| 15 | It may require him to publish a warning in the newspaper or it could , for example , require him to write individually to all purchasers of that model . |
| 16 | If he has too many bad experiences with other children , it may put him off social interaction . |
| 17 | ‘ What I 'm gon na do is … ’ ( he raises one finger then looks at it suspiciously , as though it may attack him or at worst disagree with him ) ‘ What I 'm gon na — what I 'm planning — ; all things being — ( thirty-second meaningful pause ) ‘ I mean , anything could happen , right ? |
| 18 | Not for the first time he wondered why it should affect him like that , when he himself was fond of Chuck and admired him , too . |
| 19 | But it should rattle him . |
| 20 | At Mildenhall in Suffolk in the spring of 1688 , a parson threatened to bring a Nonconformist minister before a JP for preaching a sermon , saying that it should cost him £20 ( the fine for preaching at a conventicle under the terms of the 1670 Act , whose operation had just been suspended ) . |
| 21 | It should allow him to produce a $5,000 to $20,000 Sparc portables line featuring 16-inch to 25-inch colour displays with resolutions of 1152 x 900 and 1280 x 1024 . |
| 22 | so it should keep him in order |
| 23 | She felt sorry for him again , and worried because it must hurt him to see her like that . |
| 24 | It must take him at least half an hour to get to the point of the flash and back to his own bank , even if it turned out to be a wild goose chase and he was able to return immediately . |
| 25 | ‘ It might give him ideas . ’ |
| 26 | Except it might give him security . |
| 27 | Not for a moment would I suggest that they deliberately passed it knowing it might embarrass him . |
| 28 | Do n't give you baby his bottle straight from the fridge as it might chill him . |
| 29 | ‘ It might make him accept a cut in his fee — out of sheer good will and concern for the Hochhauser Season . ’ |
| 30 | it might make him feel sick . |