Example sentences of "[modal v] have [vb pp] him [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh you should 've heard him other day , all Parker pens that are in this house are his he says |
| 2 | Yeah , it must 've cost him that to take them over there . |
| 3 | Should have defrosted him earlier . |
| 4 | Well maybe I should have given him two weeks instead of one , but , anyway . |
| 5 | Evidence at the coroner 's court should have given him little confidence in the outcome , but events took an upward turn when Marion Lindo stepped into the witness box . |
| 6 | You should have charged him triple . ’ |
| 7 | He received a ban some years ago for losing his temper while playing in that veritable hive of provocation known as Australian grade cricket , and this latest ruckus began , apparently , when Marcus Wight ( whose father , the umpire , Peter , should have taught him better ) proffered a few choice words of his won upon dismissing Ramprakash in the first innings . |
| 8 | The door was slammed wide , and he came at her with the speed of the vehicle that should have killed him two nights before . |
| 9 | He could have complained that they should have asked him earlier . |
| 10 | Maybe she should have told him fifty quid . |
| 11 | Next is Aled Williams of Bridgend , whose consistency in domestic matches , which might not be transferred to internationals , should have earned him more than a replacement honour ( out of position ) against Namibia in 1990 . |
| 12 | Perhaps she should have put him right there and then , but at the time it had not seemed terribly important , for instantly , chameleon-like , his demeanour had altered . |
| 13 | I suppose I must have touched him many times before , but not consciously or deliberately . |
| 14 | The long stay in the corridors must have made him forgetful , he thought . |
| 15 | This must have given him great satisfaction for he used to refer to himself " as one who has been admitted a member of the great family of the deaf " , and described this family as " my people " . |
| 16 | The work of translation itself , quite apart from his grand conception of his purpose in undertaking it , must have afforded him some solace . |
| 17 | Ron Robinson took charge of this element and the gathering that was achieved might have caused him more than a few ulcers , but he had to admit was more than worth the effort ! |
| 18 | a couple of you might have seen him last saturday — he is — hmm — quite big … |
| 19 | One of his strange exploits among other frolics , was having a coffin made of copper ( which one of his mines had that year produced ) , and placed in the great hall , and instead of his making use of it as a monitor that might have made him ashamed and terrified at his past life , and induce him to make amends in future , it was filled with punch , and he and his comrades soon made themselves incapable of any sort of reflection ; this was often repeated , and hurried him on to that awful moment he had so much reason to dread . |
| 20 | It might have given him some small comfort to know that , 75 years later , hydro-electric power was successfully produced a few miles away at Coaley Mill . |
| 21 | If we could have got him to a warm climate we might have kept him alive for a year or two more than we did . |
| 22 | Instead of seventy dead , it might have cost him five hundred , a thousand , to destroy Siward 's army so that it could neither attack him nor follow him . |
| 23 | She might have found him attractive , but there was no way in the world she could ever give a damn about a man who was as dishonest and as hard-hearted as he was ! |
| 24 | Trainer Andy Turnell blamed himself for Katabatic 's defeat : ‘ I might have left him short of a gallop , ’ he admitted . |
| 25 | When a storm disabled his ship in 1654 he was dismayed by the thought that God might have judged him unworthy to be an instrument . |
| 26 | First time I see him in his uniform , he looked that lovely I could 've eaten him alive . |
| 27 | Later in life no one could have called him dull-eyed or sharp-faced . |
| 28 | It could have saved him this time , but the policeman , half nerved up for aggression , caught him fairly in the doorway and hung on with professional ease . |
| 29 | ‘ I could have sent him some of my wages . ’ |
| 30 | He said : ‘ I could have seen him this morning before your lot arrived but I funked it . ’ |