Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [vb pp] him [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Police team manager David Rees said : ‘ We should have switched him to a Saturday afternoon shift . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | ‘ I told you you should have had him on a lead , ’ said Philip . |
5 | The headmistressy tone should have reduced him to an ill-behaved schoolboy . |
6 | In Vologsky 's case , the very qualities which should have promoted him as a supremely efficient and dedicated cosmonaut turned and worked against him . |
7 | That fat Cockney with his stupid tattoos and his jocular manner and his dirty jokes ; he should have dumped him in the canal ! |
8 | You must have seen him at the pictures . ‘ |
9 | My visit must have alarmed him to the extent that he decided to check again to ensure he had n't left any clues . |
10 | His Mum must have persuaded him about the parrot . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | Had the batsman not ducked , the ball might have struck him in the solar plexus . |
13 | 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 ? |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | Nothing however could have prepared him for the drama to come . |
21 | I was mad with him , could have battered him into the ground I could if I was strong enough . ’ |
22 | You tell me how any of us could have chucked him over the balustrade even if the whole lot of us got together to do it . |
23 | But having said that surely Wilkinson could have kept him at the club , for someone who says that players are picked on the performances they produce how can he explain Deane ? |
24 | Her desire for such a life was so passionate , and her gratitude to Walter for this glimpse of it was so great that she could have kissed him in the street , and later that day she did in fact allow him to undo her brassiere strap without a word of protest . |
25 | ‘ I could have forgiven him for the debts he piled up , but the lies , having another woman — I can never forgive that , ’ Jean says . |
26 | Then the man was running , and Blagg could have shot him in the back but he had only one round left . |
27 | Heydrich could have shot him in the head . |
28 | Goering could have shot him from the skies . |
29 | Ultimately , it was all too easy for Sainz , who could afford to enjoy the scenery in yesterday 's Scottish forest stages after Kankkunnen , the only man who could have overhauled him in the world title race , lost crucial time when his Lancia hit a rock . |
30 | She could have asked him about the carrots . |