Example sentences of "to him [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Writing to him would do no good , she knew that before that idea could land . |
| 2 | Now , in retrospect , she could see that marriage to him would have been a ghastly mistake , and that her reaction to discovering that he had been seeing other women while he had been engaged to her had had far more to do with wounded pride than with a wounded heart . |
| 3 | Whatever was to happen to him would happen without any provocation on his part , and nothing he did in conciliation could ward it off . |
| 4 | Well I I think its , the way that the plaintiff puts the case on that point my Lord is that even if the defendant Mr took the view er that it would not have been proper for such a notice to be served , in view of what the plaintiff was saying to him about his wish to get out of the contract , the fact that it was available to him should have been brought to his attention and then as Mr was saying that I sorry I do n't feel I can do this on your behalf because it 's not proper in the circumstances or whatever erm , should then have gone on to advise the plaintiff either to do it himself or to go and seek independent advice . |
| 5 | A 15-year-old boy 's battle to force his mother to talk to him could end in stalemate due to the wording of the Children Act . |
| 6 | The threat to him could come from Paul Hourihan , who finished fourth on that occasion but was just eight centimetres adrift . |
| 7 | A more definitive response to him must await the time which will probably arrive when the clergy ordination measure is taken on the Floor of the House . |
| 8 | My communication to him must take priority . |
| 9 | Still less pleasing to him must have been the prospect that if his clerks ignored the order to jettison their excess cures of souls , they would suffer excommunication with all its attendant disabilities and interruption of his service . |
| 10 | If Saddam is overthrown — when Saddam is overthrown — everyone close to him will go too , and it 's unlikely to be a gentle business . |
| 11 | If there are four candidates in a constituency — Conservative , Labour , Liberal Democrat and Scottish Nationalist Party — and if thanks to the AV the Labour candidate is elected , first votes given to him will get 100% political representation in the constituency and first votes given to the other three candidates will get none at all : a strange sort of PARR , just like the sort our present system provides ! |