Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [verb] him the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I loved him ; what more natural than that I should want to give him the chance to love me back ? |
| 2 | For my purpose I should like to call him the man in the jury box , for the moral judgement of society must be something about which any twelve men or women drawn at random might after discussion be expected to be unanimous . |
| 3 | Should have nabbed him the park though ! |
| 4 | ‘ That she should have given him the letter a week after his arrival . |
| 5 | He believed she must have sent him the bill personally , wanting to meet him as much as he wanted to meet her . |
| 6 | The girl must have given him the elbow , Harriet decided . |
| 7 | He even suggested maybe I 'd like to show him the cut . |
| 8 | This time there was plenty of evidence that could have saved him the trouble of the trip . |
| 9 | If that fool had known what it was , he 'd have given him the money ! ’ |
| 10 | Also , I may have given him the impression , with the urgency of youth possessed of strong convictions , that I wanted at all costs to have something published on this subject . |
| 11 | Should have worn gloves because they would have protected his hands , but they would have denied him the freedom of movement that he now needed . |
| 12 | Hindsight says that if the Lotus mechanics had n't worked so hard and so efficiently and if Emerson had n't been able to race , Jackie Stewart 's two victories in the last grands prix of the season would have given him the championship . |
| 13 | This would have given him the opportunity to be a restraining influence against the extremists . |
| 14 | Clearly some forward planning in 1992 would have given him the opportunity to organise his affairs and avoid many of his problems . |
| 15 | ‘ I believe it was a very fair offer which would have given him the option of walking away with his dignity , but he said it was derisory and there are no more offers to be made . ’ |
| 16 | He was a good head taller than she was , and in other circumstances she would have judged him the heart-throb type , with his dramatic dark looks , reckless mouth , strong jaw and a piratical scar across one cheek giving his faultless right profile the touch of humanity it needed . |
| 17 | She was gaping at him while telling herself that her mother would have told him the reason why she was here . |
| 18 | Then Baldwin saw him again and told hint that were it not for his age and his health ( neither of which had greatly changed in the preceding forty-eight hours ) , he would have offered him the vacancy , but as it was it had better go to Eden . |
| 19 | ‘ Perhaps people will start to give him the credit he deserves . |