Example sentences of "one [vb mod] [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact he takes his role as guardian of these fey fellahin so seriously that perhaps one should regard him as the Brobdingnagian Mayor of Gumnutland . |
| 2 | The first time one addresses an instructor , one should call him sifu , which means ‘ father ’ and is always applied to a Chinese kung fu instructor in accordance with the art 's long family traditions . |
| 3 | However , to get him to the point where he might be weaned from the ventilator , one must allow him to sleep and get stronger , so if it was that kind of day or that kind of period , he might have more sedation than other times . |
| 4 | A king who sought to defy his magnates and preserve his favourites , who was threatened from Scotland and France , who was distrusted and despised by his French wife , would surely need all the support he could get from his clergy and from the pope in order to survive ; and for this , one might expect him to pay dearly by concessions . |
| 5 | ( He had always used a lady 's bike as a teenager because he thought the middle bar on a man 's one might do him a mischief if he cocked his leg over it carelessly . ) |
| 6 | One of the most beautiful of these represents a thirsty man , whose desire for water is represented in the most lively manner as he kneels on the ground to drink from a spring , with such wonderful reality that one might imagine him to be a real person . |
| 7 | Finally , he swore and said she was a bad wife and if another woman of greater warmth came his way , no one could accuse him of adultery in taking her . |
| 8 | Whatever you thought of Hugh , no one could accuse him of running a ‘ tight ship ’ . |
| 9 | For the rest of the night the rain cascaded from the verandah roof , but the Collector paid no heed to it … he continued to mutter urgently to himself , thrashing weakly , possessed with the vehemence of a strange inner life where no one could reach him . |
| 10 | Thomson 's son poured so much money into The Times in the vain effort to modernize it in the late 1970s that no one could blame him for wanting to sell it . |
| 11 | He 'll never see me while you are here and no one could blame him , for you are so lovely . |
| 12 | No one could make him stay at school . |
| 13 | And once he was on stage , no one could make him do what he did not want to do . |
| 14 | No one could give him an age . |
| 15 | Told by high authority that no one could understand him in a pulpit , he worried about sermons more than anything . |
| 16 | Then , it follows from that , that understanding Shakespeare , and keeping the understanding of Shakespeare alive , is also a good , because if for example this great , rich and wonderful thing were simply there in the world and no one could see him and no one could understand him and no one was any longer thinking or talking about him , that also would be a secondary impoverishment . |
| 17 | No one could call him that , but nice . |
| 18 | Then , it follows from that , that understanding Shakespeare , and keeping the understanding of Shakespeare alive , is also a good , because if for example this great , rich and wonderful thing were simply there in the world and no one could see him and no one could understand him and no one was any longer thinking or talking about him , that also would be a secondary impoverishment . |
| 19 | One could imagine him in the witness box , speaking in a dull monotone , taking his time to answer counsel 's questions and giving clear , unshakable explanations or admitting his ignorance plainly . |
| 20 | Worse , Dr Neil was being so kind , when reason told her that no one would blame him if he turned her away for what she had done . |
| 21 | This is not an unreasonable provision , and even though the accountant may be an appointee of the landlord , one would expect him to act fairly . |
| 22 | Recalling their early days in racing , Lord Hesketh said : ‘ He was known as Hunt the Shunt and no one would hire him . |
| 23 | But no one would tell him . |
| 24 | He wants to live in perpetual opposition and one would accord him that privilege . ’ |
| 25 | A sad tale about a man who died at the age of 103 because no one would give him any money . |
| 26 | The reality was that he could walk into any bar or restaurant anywhere in the world and no one would give him a second glance . |
| 27 | Like most stalkers or abductors , Clegg is friendless and unknown and can stay with Miranda as long as he pleases , as no one would miss him . |
| 28 | He would take off for days and no one would see him . |
| 29 | ‘ The funny thing was , no one would believe him . |
| 30 | Durance said with quiet disdain : ‘ He made mad accusations , they were so mad no one would believe him . ’ |