Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [verb] him [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should want to use him in a completely different context , of course … |
| 2 | I should prefer to watch him in the primeval forests of his native land , wielding an axe against some giant tree . |
| 3 | I should like to inform him of an exercise that is being carried out by Doug Bulmer , the president of the British Association of Colliery Management . |
| 4 | Police team manager David Rees said : ‘ We should have switched him to a Saturday afternoon shift . |
| 5 | He took the view that his agents , the defendants , should have told him of the Perots ' interest in both properties , being material information relating to his sale of Caliban . |
| 6 | Old Asshe had liked him , he had been certain , and should have welcomed him as a son-in-law ; but evidently no man in the world was to be permitted to fill that position . |
| 7 | ‘ I told you you should have had him on a lead , ’ said Philip . |
| 8 | The headmistressy tone should have reduced him to an ill-behaved schoolboy . |
| 9 | In Vologsky 's case , the very qualities which should have promoted him as a supremely efficient and dedicated cosmonaut turned and worked against him . |
| 10 | That fat Cockney with his stupid tattoos and his jocular manner and his dirty jokes ; he should have dumped him in the canal ! |
| 11 | You must have seen him at the pictures . ‘ |
| 12 | My visit must have alarmed him to the extent that he decided to check again to ensure he had n't left any clues . |
| 13 | His Mum must have persuaded him about the parrot . |
| 14 | He won the local Easter parade a couple of times as the best-dressed man which , in the depressed Thirties , must have put him in the mould of something of an exhibitionist . |
| 15 | If there is any substance in the allegation the plaintiff must apply to join him as a defendant . |
| 16 | ‘ If he 's hurt I 'll have to get him to the vet , ’ said Lee . |
| 17 | " I 'll have to run him into the passage . |
| 18 | Had the batsman not ducked , the ball might have struck him in the solar plexus . |
| 19 | If , for example , old man Jordan had come into the kitchen at that moment , Wycliffe might have seen him in the mirror ; but what of it ? |
| 20 | The upshot is that Marx never even concerns himself with questions such as the relation between individual perceptions to objects or the texture of feelings , sensations and thoughts , which might have led him towards a theory of where individuality occurs . |
| 21 | In his brown canvas boots , faded blue trousers , checked shirt and frayed cap , one might have mistaken him for a man of no consequence instead of a senior member of local government . |
| 22 | She might then have sought and received public assistance or have pledged her husband 's credit with tradesmen : in which case the National Assistance Board might have summoned him before the magistrates , or the tradesmen might have sued him in the county court . |
| 23 | Eventually she might have to face him as a customer , across the counter of the shop . |
| 24 | Some might have taken him for a mere apprentice enchanter who had run away from his master out of defiance , boredom , fear and a lingering taste for heterosexuality . |
| 25 | She might then have sought and received public assistance or have pledged her husband 's credit with tradesmen : in which case the National Assistance Board might have summoned him before the magistrates , or the tradesmen might have sued him in the county court . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'd want to club him on the head with a soulier de satin after two hours , ’ said Roger , in a harsh hurrying tone . |
| 27 | I 'd like to punch him in the face for his insolence . |
| 28 | This was a relief as his coughing at night had irritated us , and it meant that Alex could stop hitting him with a broom handle when he woke us up . |
| 29 | Nothing in his IBM Corp background could have prepared him for the kind of speech he gave — in fact had to give , if Taligent is to be seen as the answer to the world 's ills . |
| 30 | Nothing however could have prepared him for the drama to come . |