Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] [verb] [verb] he the " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 I loved him ; what more natural than that I should want to give him the chance to love me back ?
3 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 .
4 He even suggested maybe I 'd like to show him the cut .
5 He believed she must have sent him the bill personally , wanting to meet him as much as he wanted to meet her .
6 ‘ That she should have given him the letter a week after his arrival .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 If that fool had known what it was , he 'd have given him the money ! ’
10 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 .
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