Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] he [verb] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he drools or loses food from the side of his mouth , you should help him to dab his mouth firmly with a folded napkin or handkerchief . |
| 2 | But the demands and realities of Presidential office should cause him to consider his foreign policy statements more carefully . |
| 3 | The patient has to undress slowly and methodically , as there is a temptation to go too quickly , which might make him lose his balance and increase his spasticity . |
| 4 | For , once he knew the truth , he could no longer believe that she was the monster he had branded her , and that might lead him to abandon his marriage , whose only purpose , she was certain now , was to thwart her . |
| 5 | I 'll tell him to move his ass . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I 'll tell him to get his skates on . |
| 7 | Soon as he injects her with the antidote to polywhatnot , she 'll leave him to find his own way home . ’ |
| 8 | I 'll let him have his fun tonight . ’ |
| 9 | Only we 'll let him have his way . |
| 10 | I 'll teach him to iron his shirts . |
| 11 | You 'll find him dragging his half-starved body through the streets of London , mumbling random thoughts through a woolly balaclava into a rickety Dictaphone . |
| 12 | Nothing I said could make him change his mind . |
| 13 | Lime and leather assailed her nostrils in a tantalising cloud as he bent his head , and before she could object he pressed his lips lightly on her mouth and stepped back . |
| 14 | ‘ But if he has done a bunk , you 'd expect him to take his collection with him , would n't you ? |
| 15 | Despite his drunkenness the man was still immensely strong , and there was a nasty moment when Jack could feel him gathering his strength , but then suddenly there was a dull thud and he went limp . |
| 16 | I could feel him shaking his head . |
| 17 | Each man had his everyday business in which he could feel he had his niche and even at times his indispensability . |
| 18 | He was developing an acute social and political conscience , and I could see him devoting his life to the Labour Party . |
| 19 | From behind the ruched net curtains , she could see him plodding his way around the green . |
| 20 | The bus stopped at the traffic lights and I could see him counting his £1 coins . |
| 21 | Bernice could see him tapping his umbrella on the floor , pretending to study the walls , and glancing back impatiently as if he could n't believe that his companions were still unable to follow him . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'd like him to bear his rightful name , I 'd like him to be able to say which family he comes from , I 'd like him to hold his head up high in any company — but I wo n't be bounced into a sham of a marriage , not even for five minutes . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'd like him to bear his rightful name , I 'd like him to be able to say which family he comes from , I 'd like him to hold his head up high in any company — but I wo n't be bounced into a sham of a marriage , not even for five minutes . |
| 24 | But as the law stands , Jamie Blandford knows only high treason could stop him inheriting his father 's title … and the Blenheim estate . |
| 25 | ‘ He had the biggest boots in the world — you 'd hear him dragging his huge hobnails around . ’ |
| 26 | Dougal could hear him scrubbing his hands in the bathroom . |
| 27 | They could hear him making his point in fortissimo Anglo-Saxon tones . |
| 28 | I could hear him bullying his patients in a good-natured way . |
| 29 | Before I could persuade him to change his mind , the summer was over , everyone went home and I was left behind . |
| 30 | He is not subject to any action from without , action which could compel him to change His attitudes or behaviour . |