Example sentences of "him [vb mod] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her feelings for him may be guessed at from a text she wrote decades later , after Gustave 's death . |
| 2 | London 's influence was thus widespread , and the gardens attributed to him may be numbered in their hundreds . |
| 3 | On any footing , it must , in my judgment , be too broad a proposition to suggest that an owner who retains a piece of land with a view to its utilisation for a specific purpose in the future can never be treated as dispossessed , however firm and obvious the intention and however drastic the act of dispossession of the person seeking to dispossess him may be . |
| 4 | ‘ Steve Cram and people like him should be there . |
| 5 | No one was likely to recommend that a hopeless old chronic like him should be put on the new drugs at this stage , because they were still in short supply and there were many more interesting patients on whom to experiment . |
| 6 | Talking to him should be banned . ’ |
| 7 | Is there any distinction to be drawn between the words required to be spoken by a constable ( a ) acting pursuant to section 7(3) of the Act and ( b ) acting pursuant to section 8(2) thereof , after the suspect has been told , in the latter case , of his right to claim that the breath specimen taken from him should be replaced by a blood or urine specimen ? |
| 8 | In the result , it was agreed between the Commissioners and the defendant that the amount charged upon him should be reduced , and that time should be given to pay it in three instalments ; he gave three promissory notes for the three instalments ; the first was duly honoured ; the others were not , and were the subject of the present action . |
| 9 | The buyer 's needs , the competition which the supplier faces and knowledge about the buyer 's business and the pressures upon him should be estimated . |
| 10 | For as the election draws ever-nearer , he is being asked to make what for him must be the ultimate sacrifice : from time to time , he is actually having to be nasty . |
| 11 | ‘ The only reason so many clubs have signed him must be because he 's a good motivator . |
| 12 | To qualify for compensation the deposit made by him must be a protected deposit . |
| 13 | But after a while he began to accept that what I told him must be true . |
| 14 | An old bachelor like him must be lonely . |
| 15 | And what speaks through him must be discounted — |
| 16 | Only now it was clear to me what an achievement was Victor Frankenstein 's , and how strong in him must be the desire to continue his line of research , whatever its consequences . |
| 17 | She added that since the essential requirement for natural justice was missing , the decision to dismiss him must be set aside . |
| 18 | Similar , though less extreme , French claims in Venice , where the ambassador demanded that any holder of a " patent de familiarité " signed by him must be considered a member of his household , led to a long breach between the two states in 1710 – 23 and renewed friction in the later 1720s . |
| 19 | Here again the debtor must allow the goods to be collected and take reasonable care in the meantime whilst sums paid out by him must be repaid . |
| 20 | But the island covered three thousand , six hundred and forty square kilometres , she 'd read in her guide book , and the chances of running in to him must be the equal amount of kilometres to one anyway . |
| 21 | For Vitor , women offering themselves up to him must be an occupational hazard ; so did he regard her as yet one more race-track groupie ? |
| 22 | Mr Rushdie hoped the fatwa against him might be lifted . |
| 23 | We shall have more to say about this in the next chapter : it was to produce a quite bewildering variety of ‘ reconstructions ’ of Jesus ' personality and history , having for the most part only one thing in common — the conviction that whatever the truth about him might be , it was not the traditional Christian picture of him . |
| 24 | What the outcome of seeing him might be is beside the point ; I have become incapable of calculation . |
| 25 | " If there is anything in my suspicions , a letter addressed to him might be opened by someone privy to the forgery or fraud . |
| 26 | She had n't suspected the curiosity she felt about him might be reciprocated . |
| 27 | They were the same terms which Dante and the mediaeval jurists insisted on : Virgil was great , was perpetually relevant and in that sense ‘ a classic ’ ( if not , more exactingly , the one indisputable ‘ classic ’ ) , because in him could be found what Dante teased out of him — the vision of Empire , of the divinely appointed imperium , which must be reconciled ( this way and that , for the reconciling was not easy ) with the no less divinely intended ecclesia . |
| 28 | The don in him could be satisfied and its conscience allayed by having intellectually broken into the truth . |
| 29 | It was possible that even a reject like him could be of use in such a godforsaken spot . |
| 30 | An argument for clemency toward him could be grounded in the belief that it would be a tactical error to declare Copernican doctrines heretical , because that might discourage Protestants from returning to the Roman fold . |