Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] [verb] him [art] " 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 | If we can put all this point-scoring to one side , I should like to ask him a question concerning several thousand of my constituents . |
| 4 | so er we must remember to buy him a card and something |
| 5 | I should have hit him a lot harder in the first place . |
| 6 | Should have nabbed him the park though ! |
| 7 | Perhaps his teacher should have given him a better word than ‘ tidgy ’ , but they both knew what they meant . |
| 8 | ‘ That she should have given him the letter a week after his arrival . |
| 9 | ‘ You should have smacked him a good one when you had the chance ! ’ |
| 10 | I should have give him a fiver . |
| 11 | Yet , when I was seven years old , I should have thought him a very silly little boy indeed not to have understood about metaphorically speaking , even if he had never heard of it , and it does seem that what he possessed in the way of scientific approach he lacked in common sense . |
| 12 | Dad said , and it must have cost him a lot to say so little after he 'd been put down by me , ‘ I 've decided I want to be with Eva . ’ |
| 13 | Must have cost him a few thousand to have it done . ’ |
| 14 | He believed she must have sent him the bill personally , wanting to meet him as much as he wanted to meet her . |
| 15 | Colin was on City 's books in the 1960s and the 77th-minute winner must have given him a kick . |
| 16 | You must have given him a pretty sleepless night through not answering the telephone . ’ |
| 17 | His early acquaintance with Pub ] ius Rutilius Rufus at the school of Panaetius must have given him a first taste of Roman optimates : later he had Pompey and Cicero among his admirers . |
| 18 | The girl must have given him the elbow , Harriet decided . |
| 19 | Ernest Jarvis did what he had to do elaborately , and it must have taken him a long time . |
| 20 | They must have thought him a bit insensitive — running off like that , the day after … |
| 21 | When I accepted he suggested I might like to give him a certain sum to help the wine flow . |
| 22 | But I 'll have to give him a caution at least . |
| 23 | You 'll have to give him a present . |
| 24 | And we 'll have given him a clue for how to budget for next year as well . |
| 25 | I 'll have to buy him a drink . |
| 26 | ‘ And it might have done him a bit of good . ’ |
| 27 | What 's more they might have done him an injury if he had n't pulled off his cassock pretty smartish and turned back into Matt , which calmed them down . |
| 28 | Ironically , one of Mr Yeltsin 's critics , Mr Ruslan Khasbulatov , speaker of parliament , might have swung him a few votes by appealing at the start of the session for deputies to behave responsibly , seek compromise and encourage ‘ dialogue , not monologue ’ . |
| 29 | It was the sort of contribution to British life which might have brought him an honour . |
| 30 | It seemed to her that , despite all he had done , Ursula might have spared him a word or gesture of encouragement . |