Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 31 | Yes , we should sack him . |
| 32 | But it should rattle him . |
| 33 | Not for the first time he wondered why it should affect him like that , when he himself was fond of Chuck and admired him , too . |
| 34 | Crying women had always annoyed him , and he briefly wondered why McAllister 's tears should affect him so differently . |
| 35 | And Jesus , in his conversation with the Samaritan woman who asked him where true worship happened , answered that " God is spirit and they who worship him must worship him in spirit and truth , " for " the time will come when neither here nor in Jerusalem will men worship " . |
| 36 | An alternative theory , and one which , if true , must sadden him , is that China no longer regards him as a threat . |
| 37 | I must regard him as … an ally ? ’ |
| 38 | He tried to persuade his friend that he should lend him some tools . |
| 39 | We should treat him more gently , try and get to know him . ’ |
| 40 | 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 " . |
| 41 | When my Cid saw that they who eat his bread were returned , he went down from the tower , and received them right well , and praised them for what they had done like good knights : howbeit he was full sorrowful for Alvar Salvadores that he should be in the hands of the Moors , but he trusted in God that he should deliver him on the morrow . |
| 42 | When he retired as chairman of British Aerospace in the summer of 1987 , Pearce had spent forty-two years in industry , all but ten weeks in management , which must make him something of an authority on the subject . |
| 43 | You must make him understand the need for secrecy . |
| 44 | ‘ Of course , you must make him wear a wig or some kind of decoration for the performance itself . ’ |
| 45 | This must make him an ideal employer for Mrs Brocklebank whom he reckoned to be on the lazy side . |
| 46 | ‘ And that must make him one of the best bargains around . ’ |
| 47 | ‘ So he is therefore claiming that , as I have no further work for him , then I must make him redundant . ’ |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | Whether these past difficulties should debar him from the presidency was , he said , an issue to be decided by the US people : " We 're putting this in your hands , you get to decide . " |
| 50 | She was so ashamed of not remembering what had happened that she felt she must compensate him in some way , so she kissed his mouth and stroked his cheek . |
| 51 | Other scholars heard that he was unwell and sent him notes made remote by their instinct that his straits must mortify him . |
| 52 | Those things strapped to his poor little scalp — they must hurt him , no matter what they said . |
| 53 | She felt sorry for him again , and worried because it must hurt him to see her like that . |
| 54 | It 'll mean seeing so much less of him , and God knows I seem to see little enough already , but being an only boy I 've felt I must pack him off to boarding-school to get some men in his life and break the apron-strings . |
| 55 | must insure him or them in respect of any liability which may be incurred by him or them m respect of the use of the vehicle and of any trailer , whether or not coupled , in the territory other than Great Britain and Gibraltar of each of the member states of the Communities according to the law on compulsory insurance against civil liability in respect of the use of vehicles of the state where the liability may be incurred ; and |
| 56 | I should describe him as an innocent . |
| 57 | Sitting with Lords Justices Gibson and McCowan , he said : ‘ If he has no intention of disclosing his source , whatever the House of Lords , which is the ultimate court of justice in this country , may say , then we see absolutely no reason why we should assist him . ’ |
| 58 | Unless it rains , the ground should suit him fine , and Richard Dunwoody showed on Thursday just how priceless his assistance can be . |
| 59 | Scudamore said afterwards that the Leopardstown run was his best ever regarding his jumping , and although Chatam later flopped in the Cheltenham Gold Cup won by Jodami he was never going on the fast ground and the slower pace of the National should suit him . |
| 60 | ‘ You must know him , ’ she persisted . |