Example sentences of "would [verb] [verb] him [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Plus Thomas 's wedding an'all and I 'd like to buy him a decent present like considering His flat 's nice .
2 Presently he drew me aside to suggest that if I would like to give him a certain sum his wife and daughter would go immediately and prepare a gypsy supper .
3 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 .
4 She would have to give him a certain amount of freedom she supposed , there was not way around that .
5 I mean , I would have given him a good kick if I 'd do stood along side of him !
6 ‘ Even before you pointed out his similarity to Clinton , I would have given him a reasonable rating .
7 His alcoholism would have made him an unsuitable colleague for revolutionaries obsessed with the need for secrecy and the dangers of indiscretion .
8 One felt the full house would have preferred him a few thousand miles away this winter , rather than on the cabaret circuit .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 He was duly reprimanded for his arrogance , providing him years later with another memory that would help make him a sympathetic captain .
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