Example sentences of "could do [prep] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was nothing they could do for him . |
| 2 | But then there was nothing they could do for him . |
| 3 | As soon as he walked through the door of the rather dark basement flat in the Bayswater Road and heard her explain that Pauline 's boyfriend was ill so she had gone off to his place to see what she could do for him , Freddie wanted to flee . |
| 4 | ‘ The things I could do for him , ’ she sighed . |
| 5 | There was nothing we could do for him here , so we had him transferred . ’ |
| 6 | I did n't recognise him , nor did there seem to be anything I could do for him . |
| 7 | He had been to hospital many times before doctors decided there was nothing they could do for him . |
| 8 | He hated the car and he hated himself in it ; he hated what it could do to him and what it had done to him . |
| 9 | She knew what she could do to him , things she bet porcelain Xanthe would never know . |
| 10 | At least out here they had to play according to some sort of standard of fairness , even if it was a standard they could change as they went along according to how it suited them ( like doubling the bus fares just after he 'd found that job way out in Brentford ) , but in prison , even more so than in a mental hospital , there were no real limits to what they could do to him . |
| 11 | His voice was rough , his breathing still laboured , and she smiled , enjoying in a very feminine way what she could do to him . |
| 12 | With my father I had more difficulty : all I could do with him was to argue about literature , citing my teachers ' opinions as being more up-to-date and therefore more valid than his own . |
| 13 | Could do with him . |
| 14 | There was nothing they could do about him . |
| 15 | The hard and expensive lesson he learnt from the sorry business was that the game could do without him . |
| 16 | What she could have done without when she went into her office was to answer the phone and hear Jimmy Webb ring in to ask if she could do without him as he 'd got an upset stomach . |