Example sentences of "him [pron] [modal v] n't [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know exactly what words to use but when I 'm with him I ca n't get them out . |
| 2 | I want you to tell him I ca n't assist him any further and there 's no point him contacting me again . |
| 3 | I was n't going to show him I would n't let him out of my sight . |
| 4 | and if it had n't been for him I would n't have them , |
| 5 | I said to , I said to him I wo n't tell her . |
| 6 | Travis phoned last night — I 've told him I wo n't see him again . ’ |
| 7 | I told him I could n't stop him , he was a free agent . |
| 8 | ‘ Major 's so far behind him you ca n't see him . ’ |
| 9 | Cos as we know him you ca n't believe it ! |
| 10 | I know I 'd say to look at i to look at him you would n't think it . |
| 11 | I told him you would n't like it if you found out , but he said — ’ |
| 12 | ‘ That at this very minute Maria Luisa is telling him she ca n't marry him because she has a child by another man ? |
| 13 | In any case , how could she look into his eyes and convince him she would n't touch him with a ten-foot pole when every time he came within a few feet of her she quivered inside , remembering the fierce and all too brief pressure of his mouth on hers ? |
| 14 | and you wonder why you 're losing all your matches cos every time the ball comes to him he ca n't trap it or if he does he kicks it the wrong way |
| 15 | Occasionally I might buy him the big third Mac , the third Big Mac , just to prove to him he ca n't eat it , and this establishes in the superego a , that the , the superego to some extent speaks for reality and , and the reality sense is part of the , is part of the standards which are built into , which are built into the superego , and to , and therefore to a large extent the superego opposes the pleasure principle that operates in the id . |
| 16 | If you put a pint of beer out for him he would n't drink it . |
| 17 | Tom told him he should n't do it , should tell them he was n't going to co-operate any more . |
| 18 | I told him he could n't push me around any more like a football from one job to another . |