Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [verb] he the [noun] " 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 The small but select entry includes Carl 's Choice , several times a winner on this track , and Sneakapenny , whose last fence blunder at Garthorpe last weekend may have cost him the Men 's Open there .
12 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 .
13 At the other end the Vice-President of the United States of America used language for several minutes that would have lost him the votes of the Moral Majority , had those good citizens had the opportunity to hear him .
14 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 .
15 This would have given him the opportunity to be a restraining influence against the extremists .
16 Clearly some forward planning in 1992 would have given him the opportunity to organise his affairs and avoid many of his problems .
17 ‘ 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 . ’
18 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 .
19 She was gaping at him while telling herself that her mother would have told him the reason why she was here .
20 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 .
21 ‘ Perhaps people will start to give him the credit he deserves .
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