Example sentences of "[noun] that would [verb] him [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The big broker even asked me , as I left his office , if I could recommend someone to design a programme that would let him keep track of his client 's accounts as he traded . |
| 2 | As he 'd hobbled back through the sleet a tiny part of him had hoped her gratitude would include an embrace , or at least a few words that would let him know she felt something for him . |
| 3 | Stevenson was deliberately seeking a plot that would allow him to explore an aspect of human psychology . |
| 4 | He was wearing the unobtrusive shabby clothes with soft shoes that would allow him to plod round the streets without being noticed . |
| 5 | Yet somehow Edward must be appeased , so I sought to make a virtue of my ignorance , asking questions that would allow him to air his greater experience . |
| 6 | Lecourt has pointed to the absence of ‘ a concept that would enable him to think together several histories with different statuses ; in short , the concept of a differential history ’ . |
| 7 | At the same time , the worker has at his command tools and machinery that would make him feel enormous strength but he feels impotent because he is involved in only one part of the pattern of mass production ; never experiencing involvement with a total process from the raw material stage through to a finished product . |
| 8 | She moved away when he sat near her , went into town to change her library books instead of going home when he invented a string of excuses that would enable him to walk in her direction . |
| 9 | At the same time he wrote to Phillips offering him advice that would help him avoid trickery ( Phillips ignored this advice ) . |