Example sentences of "[noun] who would [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | After screening for some months on the surface of the mine , a boy would then link up with a collier who would take him as help-mate or butty in his stall . |
| 2 | Once informed of this , Ershad had little option but to announce his forthcoming resignation , which he did late on Dec. 4 , saying that he would resign as soon as the opposition had nominated an interim president who would replace him and supervise elections . |
| 3 | This meant that his grandad was temporarily unavailable for a ‘ tap ’ , but there was bound to be someone in the cafe who would stand him a coffee . |
| 4 | He spent the holidays in England with any parents who would have him . |
| 5 | Arran convened his kin and friends , and all the other nobles who would support him , and asked for their backing against the cardinal . |
| 6 | All they had in common , to begin with , was this terrible need : Rich for a mentor who would make him grow , Philip for a pupil who would take on the weight of unspent devotion . |
| 7 | It was Ginger who would find him slumped in his bathroom just a few hours after he wrote the letter . |
| 8 | What , we may ask Holt , happens to the child who , dissatisfied at home , seeks in vain for guardians who would suit him ? |
| 9 | Whatever his motives , his experiment was made possible by the power he had to distribute land to the motley collection of individuals who would join him . |
| 10 | Goodman was always hard up and enjoyed the friendship and generosity of friends such as Francis Bacon who would help him out . |
| 11 | The story of the American expatriate who shipped over his water-bed and then had to spend months trying to find a landlord who would allow him to bring it into his property is a good example . |
| 12 | The idea of a woman who would save him was not new , but it had become real , it was no longer fantasy . |
| 13 | In need of money , he agreed to take on work as an artist 's model when Ricky Stride said he knew of an artist who would employ him , for Minton had seen photographs of Bowler and had remarked what a good model he would make . |
| 14 | He believed he had found a good humoured gentleman in Holland who would send him plants , but was critical of him for overheating his stoves . |
| 15 | He was too slow , or too fast ; so that sweeping — and most of his day he spent sweeping , brushing the floors , the shavings from the machines — he was either busy or , conversely , slack to stand on his brush , an affront to Parker who would move him on to some other task . |
| 16 | who actually does fall in love who would have him |
| 17 | Thinking of all the other men who would envy him if they knew . |
| 18 | Thinking of all the other men who would envy him is they knew . |
| 19 | Drew had never been extravagant , but he could n't see the point of parsimony for parsimony 's sake , so he had decided to look for a patron , some ignoramus who would pay him a long salary to coach him and look after his ponies . |
| 20 | The defendant in Allen v. Simmons ( 1978 Q.B.D. ) offered just one set of glasses and asked his audience who would pay him 30 pence for the set . |
| 21 | He was flying first class to LAX , where he would be met by a uniformed chauffeur who would convey him by limousine or courtesy car to the Pinnacle Trumont on the Avenue of the Stars . |
| 22 | In November 1959 he found himself back in Montreal , ‘ to renew his neurotic affiliations ’ as he was to repeat endlessly to journalists ; meeting his friends and family , sometimes bumping into his uncles who would take him for expensive meals at top restaurants — such as the Ritz — and hotels ; and generally awakening and reawakening those impulses and memories which would fire his imagination and energise his mind for months to come . |
| 23 | MacDonald spoke of his difficulties with characteristic self-pity , but said he would not resign , but go on with those of his colleagues who would follow him " . |