Example sentences of "[modal v] have [verb] him for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm sure we can get an accountant to come and speak to us , but we might have to pay him for two hours work , you see . |
| 2 | Nothing in our four days on the felucca with this sullen boy had prepared us for this , as nothing could have prepared him for that afternoon in Asyut . |
| 3 | He 'd galloped all the way to Leafield and we would have lost him for good if someone there had n't recognised him . ’ |
| 4 | She would have admired him for that , once . |
| 5 | He could never entirely regret it , because it reminded him of working with Willie , and the passing resolves he made as a grown-up to lose some of it always contained a tang of unease about betraying his professional qualifications in the eyes of a man who would have belted him for such a thing . |