Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] [verb] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may need to watch him at first , so that you can clean and dress any grazes or cuts immediately . |
| 2 | I should want to use him in a completely different context , of course … |
| 3 | I should prefer to watch him in the primeval forests of his native land , wielding an axe against some giant tree . |
| 4 | He was surprised that the doctor should seek to draw him into such boldness with one who was of the other sex , and the daughter of a friend . |
| 5 | I should like to inform him of an exercise that is being carried out by Doug Bulmer , the president of the British Association of Colliery Management . |
| 6 | We must try to prevent him from erring in the first place ; easier said than done ! |
| 7 | It could and should have led him to great opportunities . |
| 8 | The fact of it was , Amanda should never have brought him in here at all ; she should have kept him in Reception , as per company policy . |
| 9 | He was the nephew of Wulfhere and it is reminiscent of the political alignments of Wulfhere 's day that the southern Saxons should have supported him against Hlothhere . |
| 10 | Police team manager David Rees said : ‘ We should have switched him to a Saturday afternoon shift . |
| 11 | Olazabal should have emulated him for in the afternoon he proceeded to miss a string of short putts . |
| 12 | Should have told him to his face . |
| 13 | He took the view that his agents , the defendants , should have told him of the Perots ' interest in both properties , being material information relating to his sale of Caliban . |
| 14 | Old Asshe had liked him , he had been certain , and should have welcomed him as a son-in-law ; but evidently no man in the world was to be permitted to fill that position . |
| 15 | ‘ I told you you should have had him on a lead , ’ said Philip . |
| 16 | The headmistressy tone should have reduced him to an ill-behaved schoolboy . |
| 17 | Atherton , back in the side for his first Test of the tour , battled through 41 overs to show England 's management why they should have picked him at Madras , while Blakey — brought in because Neil Fairbrother was still ill with a virus — has now made only seven runs from three Test innings and looks out of his depth . |
| 18 | In Vologsky 's case , the very qualities which should have promoted him as a supremely efficient and dedicated cosmonaut turned and worked against him . |
| 19 | That fat Cockney with his stupid tattoos and his jocular manner and his dirty jokes ; he should have dumped him in the canal ! |
| 20 | Some memory must have stabbed him at that moment . |
| 21 | And , fundamentally , Braque 's painting is much more thoughtful and reasoned ; while the Demoiselles must have excited him by its immediacy and directness , it also posed for Braque various pictorial problems . |
| 22 | You must have met him by now , ’ Penny insisted . |
| 23 | Also , had it been in the first instance the officers of Albinus , there was a need to consider the townspeople since it was they who must have supported him for his bid for the purple on the expectancy of rich return on his success . |
| 24 | ‘ You must have hated him for what he did . ’ |
| 25 | You must have seen him at the pictures . ‘ |
| 26 | Edna , blind since birth , said : ‘ I must have hit him at least 12 times . |
| 27 | My visit must have alarmed him to the extent that he decided to check again to ensure he had n't left any clues . |
| 28 | She must have caught him with her fist , though she had n't felt it . |
| 29 | So I must have failed him in some way , to make him not like me , as well as him failing me . |
| 30 | His Mum must have persuaded him about the parrot . |