Example sentences of "[conj] they [vb mod] [verb] [prep] him " in BNC.

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1 This revolutionary conclusion , which is perhaps the most important for the general reader of The Origin , is one easily supported by modern anthropologists although they might disagree with him about what exactly will happen when the change comes or even whether this kind of change can be predicted .
2 The man who told me about them is not afraid because he can do more harm to them than they can inflict on him . ’
3 In the hotel the count had merely said that they would stay with him , not with his sister and himself .
4 It had been agreed beforehand that they would refer to him as Shih Scott .
5 The other rabbit evidently had no fear that they might set upon him , hrair to one , and kill him .
6 Well , he , it 's not that far away and it 's , if he 's in here and they can see to him , fair enough , or they might be able to point him in a different direction , a better direction
7 His bony legs , which usually felt as if they would collapse beneath him , felt firmer , stronger .
8 Well I suppose yeah cos they could set on him on his own
9 But they would say to him Angus , is n't it about time you found yourself a wife ?
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