Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [verb] him an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A well-rounded elder statesman : Denis Healey has a personal Hinterland , filled with poetry , history , classics and philosophy , which he fears may have made him an over-tolerant politician . |
| 2 | His mother was a Parr , which may have given him an independent entree into Gloucester 's service , but he could equally well have come to the duke 's attention through the Percy connection . |
| 3 | His mother was a Parr , which may have given him an independent entree into Gloucester 's service , but he could equally well have come to the duke 's attention through the Percy connection . |
| 4 | His alcoholism would have made him an unsuitable colleague for revolutionaries obsessed with the need for secrecy and the dangers of indiscretion . |
| 5 | He was perhaps a little too intelligent for the daily grind of professional golf , without having that last cutting edge of brilliance which would have brought him an Open Championship . |