Example sentences of "[modal v] have [verb] 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 ‘ If he 's hurt I 'll have to get him to the vet , ’ said Lee .
13 " I 'll have to run him into the passage .
14 Had the batsman not ducked , the ball might have struck him in the solar plexus .
15 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 ?
16 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 .
17 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 .
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 Eventually she might have to face him as a customer , across the counter of the shop .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 Nothing however could have prepared him for the drama to come .
24 I was mad with him , could have battered him into the ground I could if I was strong enough . ’
25 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 .
26 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 ?
27 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 .
28 ‘ I could have forgiven him for the debts he piled up , but the lies , having another woman — I can never forgive that , ’ Jean says .
29 Then the man was running , and Blagg could have shot him in the back but he had only one round left .
30 Heydrich could have shot him in the head .
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