Example sentences of "would have [verb] him [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were as David and Jonathan , but if anyone had hinted such Jack would have poked him on the nose , and as for Charlie … |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It would have struck him in the face if at the last moment , sensing it coming , he had not ducked his head . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He was one of the most accomplished debaters in the Government but nothing would have saved him from the mauling . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Carla would have taken him to the cleaners for that . |
| 12 | From there , two or three strides would have taken him over the edge and into oblivion . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The Resistance would have put him in the grave if the Nazis had followed them . |
| 15 | He steered a middle course between intimacy and aloofness which would have endeared him to the most demanding of guests . |