Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] would [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he asked me I would turn him down . ’ |
| 2 | When his wife died he began to look around for another ; someone who would give him the children he needed . |
| 3 | He looked around for someone who would fill him in on the gossip . |
| 4 | But once at the School , in his own place and with his daily occupation , he began to think again of this dream woman , and added to the old notion of what she should be , which Diana had personified , was an idea of her as his rescuer , as someone who would save him and make him whole again . |
| 5 | Mr Rampton asked : ‘ Suppose you had somebody in your hands who had behaved badly … is it in those circumstances right to hand him back to somebody who would treat him with equal brutality ? ’ |
| 6 | She had taken him out into the garden to show him various easy spring tasks that must be done , and for which she would pay him , and he had refused . |
| 7 | And the Cid sent for all his friends and his kinsmen and vassals , and told them how King Don Alfonso had banished him from the land , and asked for them who would follow him into banishment , and who would remain at home . |
| 8 | Speaking to people nicely may well have been William Charles 's greatest worldly asset , one which would enable him to make a living in the great metropolis , for all his lack of more specific skills . |
| 9 | Nor have I any wish to see him caught by one who would drag him back to the city lights . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ He wants an heir but not one who would disinherit him presumably . |
| 11 | I was the one who would help him back to bed , I was the one who would read lines to him in the morning before he went on the set . ’ |
| 12 | He would marry another heiress , she knew that quite well , almost certainly one who would take him for his title , regardless of his character and conduct . |
| 13 | Instead , he might be cursed with one who would rob him blind and charge him three-times the wages for the privilege . |
| 14 | Oliver was led away to be locked up , and a reward was offered to anybody who would take him away and use him for work . |
| 15 | I told him I would contact him in a few days , but I never did . |
| 16 | He would watch the notices in the papers , and when someone died and the widow was left alone , he would go there and think up some sort of lie — he lied always , as a boy , even when there was no need , and he looked so clean and innocent that if you did not know him you would believe him , every time . |
| 17 | If she agreed to marry him she would offer him what she could — affection , duty , loyalty — and he could decide whether it was enough . |
| 18 | She could not associate him with any loss of dignity , or credit , or grace , not because he felt these too nearly and jealously , but because he wore and used them with as little thought as the breath he drew , and they were as natural a part of him , and like breath , when they left him they would leave him dead . |
| 19 | So he knew that if he instructed Marshalls to act for him they would charge him their normal fees for their work . |
| 20 | Poindexter , weary , did not really want to know and had no memory of the memo at all ; he told him he would see him at the office in the morning . |
| 21 | While Sien sat to him , a pathetic drooping invalid who wanted to please him , who actually asked him to tell her what would please him , he probed her , observed her , dissected her painlessly , as the masters of literature had done with women , subtly and beautifully revealing their characters . |
| 22 | ‘ Anyway , I am sure he would not find anyone who would give him such a good time . |
| 23 | Nor could the earl find anyone who would lend him money to be secured on his landed revenue . |
| 24 | Another Halket satire : ‘ A dialogue between the Devil and George II ’ , an imaginary , scurrilous discussion which did nothing for King George 's reputation , so incensed his son , Butcher Cumberland , that he offered £100 reward to anyone who would bring him Halket 's body . |
| 25 | Would he have been prepared to marry anyone who would have him just to keep Kirsty out of her hands ? |
| 26 | ‘ What you should want to pursue him for might be different from what I would pursue him for . ’ |
| 27 | For he does not insist it is healthy and natural , nor does he ask me what I would like him to do . |
| 28 | These aids are used as signals to the horse to tell him what we would like him to do . |
| 29 | That was what they would expect him to do . |
| 30 | anything I would have him learn ; |