Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] [verb] [to-vb] his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My husband should really have kept him for himself , but he believed that I should try to change his luck . ’ |
| 2 | I 'll have to call his wife , ’ she said . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'd like to see his paying-in book . ’ |
| 4 | We now reach the impossible position where if somebody goes to appeal against us and they win , they can claim costs against us , and we actually have that now , we 've got fairly large sums of cost hanging against the council , so if I 'd like to ask Les to erm I 'd like to have his support for stronger planning laws , then we could do the things that he says we ought to do . |
| 5 | I 'd like to catch his act . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I would like to examine his corpse , ’ Corbett said . |
| 7 | I would like to extend his thesis in order to establish that the dramatic playing mode can use both personal and projected activity . |
| 8 | Peter Gretener has emphasised the need to distinguish between continuous and discontinuous processes and I would like to adapt his list of examples as follows , ranging from biological to astronomical processes : |
| 9 | When I passed at this point MacArthur said perhaps I would like to hear his summary as a soldier and as no businessman or textile expert . |
| 10 | But Mr Xemgin said : ‘ I would like to think his death would bring changes , but somehow I doubt it . ’ |
| 11 | I can attempt to justify his death at least to myself . |
| 12 | Saussure illustrates these principles with a diagram ( 1974 : l 12 ) , which may help to clarify his point : The two bands of wavy lines A and B stand for what in a pre-linguistic state would be two continua : respectively an ‘ indefinite plane of jumbled ideas ’ and ‘ the equally vague plane of sounds ’ . |
| 13 | He had said ‘ we ’ , which heartened McAllister enormously but also meant that she must try to justify his confidence , and not let him down ; he must not think her a fine lady only playing at life — she meant to do her share , and yet try not to hinder him . |
| 14 | Other seem to be trying to assuage a guilt known only to themselves , and a few are out to keep Ali a player , a lure to those who might want to use his name in business ; though the marketplace turns away from billboards in decline . |
| 15 | Her frantic attempts to push away those wide shoulders proved to be of no avail , and there was nothing she could do to prevent his mouth gently brushing her lips . |
| 16 | Constanza saw it all too well : Anna above all needed a future and here it was , a son-in-law whom she could help to make his way in the world . |
| 17 | You 'd have to ask his daughter if you want something personal . ’ |
| 18 | And while she was having a whisky and eating a piece of cake at eleven o'clock , in a hapless impulse to demonstrate and somehow fix her freebooting mood — though she saw the irrationality of it on a day that had begun with a clear insight that at least she would try to equal his thinness even if she could never hope to achieve the frugality of his expectations — just as she was leaving the last part of the cake , she would think of a better way to write the note . |
| 19 | It is n't every comic genius who would undertake to send his talent into such painful places . |
| 20 | They create a drag-like static that slows him down and pollutes what you would have to call his aura . |
| 21 | Who can cease to sing his praise ! |
| 22 | For instance one may find marked relief from taking warm drinks which would make another feel much worse ; one may have a high fever and sweats whilst another has no fever at all ; one may be hot and want to be uncovered and in the fresh air whilst another is hot yet wants to be covered up to his chin ; one may wish to continue his work whilst another might only wish to lie down and die and so on . |
| 23 | Bill volunteers the suggestion that we should meet to review his performance against the criteria quite soon . |
| 24 | We shall have to match his fighting spirit , and not let our fear overwhelm us before the first blow is struck . |
| 25 | ‘ We would like to see his flat , ’ said Mr Utterson . |
| 26 | ‘ We will continue to highlight his case wherever possible , ’ he said . |
| 27 | ‘ Ah well , ’ he said finally , ‘ if he tried to get his own back for his son 's trouble , we will have to crack his head too , ’ and he swept off into the dance . |
| 28 | But now they 'll have to spare his wool , or they 'll rip off his hide and then there 'll be no wool left to fleece . ’ |
| 29 | Moreover if these covenants were given full force , they would tend to reduce his freedom to seek better conditions even by asking for a rise in wages ; because if he is not allowed to get work elsewhere he is very much at the mercy of his employer . |
| 30 | They would like to search his boat . |