Example sentences of "[noun] that [pron] [modal v] [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of passing on this information , the defendant persuaded the other employee to leave and join his own business ; the discontented client in the meantime had agreed with the defendant that he would use him as his legal adviser in the future . |
| 2 | His apprehension arose not out of a fear that she would ruin him by extravagant expenditure but from a neurotic anxiety that if she knew how much money he had put away , she might feel free to leave him . |
| 3 | He wanted to look around for Carter despite his fear that he might see him . |
| 4 | I think he was rather taken aback because my understanding is that he told David that he could get him out of the contract . |
| 5 | I took that as an indication that I could play him every match . |
| 6 | Norbrook offers such a spirited apologia for his methodology that you will forgive him most things . |
| 7 | I had wagered a purse that I would beat him at bowls and Drake never could resist gold . |
| 8 | The Doctor waved to the poet that they should follow him . |
| 9 | There was a hope that we could persuade him to go back , ‘ turn ’ him , if you like . |
| 10 | Lucie forced a penny into his soft , sleeping palm ; dumped his shearing tools in his lap , and pulled his cap down over his face in the hope that nobody would recognize him for one of the players . |
| 11 | That was not unusual on the Monday after a tournament , so I decided to drive to his house in Clapham in the hope that I might intercept him either on the way in from a long lunch or on the way out for a pre-prandial drink . |
| 12 | ‘ Silas is still longing to go to bed with me , so you can wish me luck that I 'll get him there eventually — but in the right circumstances , of course . ’ |
| 13 | Madam , I 'm gon na ask you to say in those circumstances that we should give him the maximum discharge . |
| 14 | The jury were directed by the trial judge that they could find him guilty only as actor , whereas the true position was that he could be found guilty either as actor or on the basis of art and part . |
| 15 | We told Frank that we would support him if he stood up to the little tyrant , that he would feel better if he did , citing our own experiences , mine in particular . |
| 16 | He sang in the words of the aria that she should give him her hand and put his out to her , but she pretended not to understand . |
| 17 | As the puppy gets older , he will want to go outside to the soiled piece of paper that you have positioned in a place that you may want him to use . |
| 18 | It is only through God 's revelation that we can know him . |
| 19 | Even if he managed to get to a horse , he had a nasty suspicion that it would follow him at its own pace . |
| 20 | It is in the music of his latter years that one can find him reliving an older manner that evokes the comfortable world which Humperdinck , wisely , never left . |
| 21 | He had a few enemies amongst the more militant dockers but he had many loyal friends too , and many had told Carrie that they would follow him without question . |
| 22 | He shits himself each day that they will send him there . |
| 23 | He tried to persuade his friend that he should lend him some tools . |
| 24 | Mortified , inwardly seething with fury at this last suggestion , Caroline had endured Roman 's taunting smile as he 'd wryly assured his hostess that nothing would give him greater pleasure … |
| 25 | As a means of persuading her , the prince suggested to my chagrin that I should accompany him . |
| 26 | He had already overtaken his mother and she did not know how to cope with the graded readers he brought home from school or his teacher 's request that she should hear him read . |
| 27 | BECAUSE DUDLEY MOORE never seems to stop talking , you get the feeling that you could ask him about anything under the sun and he would have one of his long and winding answers all ready for us to vaguely follow . |
| 28 | Gifford , though he gave advice from his own experience , told him to take nothing on trust , but ‘ to cry mightily unto the Lord that He would convince him of the truth thereof ’ : he must work out his own salvation . |
| 29 | It is in the shadows that you will find him . ’ |
| 30 | In proceedings under Parts IV and V of the Children Act this privilege is waived and no person is excused from giving evidence or answering a question put to him in the course of his evidence on the ground that it will incriminate him or his spouse ( s98(1) ) . |