Example sentences of "would have [vb pp] him [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 I 'd have joined him in the Abacos if he 'd asked me , little holidays from time to time .
2 In Ancient Rome they 'd have chucked him to the lions .
3 His counsel , Mr Thomas Shields , told Mr Justice Popplewell that the article , headed : ‘ Fash : I 'd have knocked him through the wall .
4 They were as David and Jonathan , but if anyone had hinted such Jack would have poked him on the nose , and as for Charlie …
5 According to Constanze , he received the news with painful resignation , saying that the situation would have enabled him for the first time to have sufficient leisure to write what he wanted , and to justify his growing reputation ; but instead only death awaited him .
6 It might have been expected that the tribal masks and statuettes that had such a profound effect on Picasso 's painting would have excited him to a new activity in the field of sculpture as they did Derain and , to a certain extent , Matisse .
7 It would have struck him in the face if at the last moment , sensing it coming , he had not ducked his head .
8 He could no longer keep his eyes open to watch any one of the Thrill-a-Minute videos which , until quite recently , would have kept him on the edge of his seat .
9 Few of the cast would have seen him in the revues of the late thirties where his career started , but they would all have caught up with the films he had made in the immediate post-war years .
10 Cissie was the first to recover , and there was no doubt she would have chased him to the ends of Kingdom Come if Beth had n't thrust out an arm to stop her .
11 He was one of the most accomplished debaters in the Government but nothing would have saved him from the mauling .
12 If it had been a man who had called him that to his face , he would have smashed him to a pulp .
13 The reporter snapped a rubber band over his notebook , told Hank he would have rung him about the details of the book but he had not been able to get through .
14 ‘ Until this happened , I would have described him as a conventional Anglican .
15 If he had n't had the business I would have left him within a month .
16 The vicious campaigns conducted during the 1930s against Doriot , Trotsky , Radek and Bukharin would have left him in no doubt on that score .
17 D'Indy 's editorial colleague , Charles Malherbe , the scholarly archivist and librarian at the Paris Opera who was in charge of collating the sources , would have left him in no doubt that the scoring here was complète .
18 He had grabbed hold of Cliff and had him halfway over the ship 's side and would have dumped him into the dock had he not been restrained by a couple of his workmates .
19 If he had not tried , they would have dropped him without a word .
20 The Sixth Fleet , Talbot was aware , would have informed him of the presence of any of their aircraft in his vicinity , not from courtesy but because regulations demanded it , a fact of which O'Rourke was as well aware as he was .
21 My first thought was that had Richard Hannay materialised at that moment , I would have issued him with a help form .
22 Carla would have taken him to the cleaners for that .
23 From there , two or three strides would have taken him over the edge and into oblivion .
24 Instead of turning left over the canal bridge which would have taken him into the village , he turned right and began walking out of the village on the Brookend road .
25 The Resistance would have put him in the grave if the Nazis had followed them .
26 He puts the case for Xanthippe ( aka Mrs Socrates ) , whose husband 's ‘ homosexual leanings , his absent-minded behaviour , his idleness and his love of proving everyone wrong would have endeared him to no wife of mettle . ’
27 He steered a middle course between intimacy and aloofness which would have endeared him to the most demanding of guests .
28 Sir James Barrie would have known him for a Lost Boy .
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