Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] [vb mod] [vb infin] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Mr Hussein had the wit to get out of Kuwait before the Americans and their allies can push him out , the war would have lost its overriding purpose — and the coalition might at last have lost its cohesiveness . |
| 2 | Anne agreed , disappointed that he had not suggested meeting her outside the factory where her friends could see him , but happy to meet him anywhere . |
| 3 | It was thought that the god of fertility had died and only their tears could bring him back . |
| 4 | He would get men to race him , see which ones could outpace him , they 'd wear helmets and all look the part . |
| 5 | Even their kisses might give him a disease from which he would die or become horribly spotty . |
| 6 | How could that so alter the sperm he produces that his sons would resemble him ? |
| 7 | If the anthropologist enquires in advance about just what is going to happen , his informants will give him a stereotype . |
| 8 | In the fieldwork situation the anthropologist 's aim must be that his informants should treat him as their pupil and that they should be prepared to teach him their way of life by accepting him as a kinsman , so that , as near as may be , he becomes " one of us " . |
| 9 | For a moment he paused to massage the circulation back into his tightly compressed toes , then he was racing along the narrow alley as fast as his legs would carry him . |
| 10 | The terrified Frankie skidded round the corner wall of the end house and raced as fast as his legs would carry him down towards the walkway gate . |
| 11 | Twisting into the first side street and then a smaller street off that and along its full length he ran and ran as fast as his legs would carry him . |
| 12 | Meanwhile , Noah Claypole , amazed by all that he had heard , crept up the steps and ran for Fagin 's house as fast as his legs could carry him . |
| 13 | Eyes : A quick flick with the back of the fingers against his eyes will force him to blink , impairing his vision . |
| 14 | I expect his spies will tell him , though . ’ |
| 15 | Therefore , he could not return to England , where his duties would force him into communion with those whose company he was forbidden to frequent : |
| 16 | This distaste for the subject of money should also guide his behaviour if another gentleman was impudent enough to enquire about his income : ‘ [ In such a situation the mirza ] should try to get the topic changed ; if not he should leave the house to its owner and run away as fast as his feet can carry him . |
| 17 | ( There are spiders too : an engineer , inspecting the Lake as it was filling , reported seeing a half-drowned tree covered with what appeared to be black foliage : he paddled alongside , then shot away as fast as his blades could carry him . |
| 18 | He may be an unlikely civil servant , but his qualities should stand him in good stead for the job of producing a national strategy for the NHS 's science . |
| 19 | Hitler was fit only for the loony bin , his generals would kill him within five minutes if he ever declared war , and he only had one ball . |
| 20 | To prevent this , his friends would soothe him with music , cool water and adoring maidens until at last he would ‘ come to himself . |
| 21 | His heart sank when he saw where his questionings would take him next . |
| 22 | And the tons of sugar needed to feed his bees will cost him several thousand pounds . |
| 23 | He was the smallest boy in the class and he prayed every night that God and His Angels would help him to grow . |
| 24 | Other scholars heard that he was unwell and sent him notes made remote by their instinct that his straits must mortify him . |
| 25 | He had Lucia 's father 's body brought down a fiendish spiral staircase to centre stage — the singer was convinced that his bearers would drop him , so Menotti 's secretary had to play the corpse — and the opera closed in a graveyard cloaked in drifting snow . |
| 26 | He spoke with a gentleness that explained why , as a pastor of the parochial clergy , he was by no means despised , however his colleagues might treat him . |
| 27 | What reasons may persuade him that he is so compelled or obliged ? |
| 28 | We say that a sentence is factually significant to any given person if , and only if , he knows how to verify the proposition which it purports to express — that is , if he knows what observations would lead him , under certain conditions , to accept the proposition as being true , or reject it as being false . |
| 29 | The ‘ no meaning ’ atheist denies that the theist can state what observations would lead him or her to accept as true , or deny as false , the proposition that ‘ God exists ’ . |
| 30 | That is how our supporters should remember him too . |