Example sentences of "would have [verb] him [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His companion was a head shorter and he was thin ; but a reader of character would have stamped him the more evil of the two . |
| 2 | She would have to give him a certain amount of freedom she supposed , there was not way around that . |
| 3 | I mean , I would have given him a good kick if I 'd do stood along side of him ! |
| 4 | ‘ Even before you pointed out his similarity to Clinton , I would have given him a reasonable rating . |
| 5 | His alcoholism would have made him an unsuitable colleague for revolutionaries obsessed with the need for secrecy and the dangers of indiscretion . |
| 6 | One felt the full house would have preferred him a few thousand miles away this winter , rather than on the cabaret circuit . |
| 7 | Three days before he died , in a master stroke of irony , the emperor confirmed his appointment as kapellmeister at St Stephen 's — a post which would have brought him a steady income of 2,000 gulden a year . |
| 8 | He was perhaps a little too intelligent for the daily grind of professional golf , without having that last cutting edge of brilliance which would have brought him an Open Championship . |
| 9 | The sort of thing that would have delighted him a few months ago — he would have chuckled over its witty irreverence , and imagined with pleasure Clare 's shock and embarrassment had she come across it . |