Example sentences of "he [modal v] [verb] [verb] me " in BNC.
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| 1 | He ought to have slapped me across the face . |
| 2 | I think He may have heard me . ’ |
| 3 | Perhaps he should have dropped me further away . |
| 4 | Why he should hold them , why he should so strangely realize them , and above all , why he should have chosen me to be his solitary audience of one , remained a total mystery . |
| 5 | He must have heard me . |
| 6 | 56-56 Spencer , and came right towards me looking at the ground , then looking up quick as he must have sensed me . |
| 7 | I thought he must have stood me up … backed out at the last minute … |
| 8 | He must have taken me there . |
| 9 | He must have rescued me from the canal , because my clothes were wet through , so were his … ’ |
| 10 | I 've got to give him such a tremendous shock that he 'll have to release me . |
| 11 | And if he wants to get rid of me he 'll have to throw me out . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ He should be leaving about now , and if I know him he 'll have left me to pay his hotel bill . |
| 13 | Well I 've got to take his over now , he 'll have to bring me back . |
| 14 | If he lets me go he 'll have to trust me . |
| 15 | You can tell him from me that if he wants me to stay in this urban backwater of yours he 'll have to provide me with an interesting occupation — and I do n't mean modelling your dress . |
| 16 | If I learn that any man went missing today he 'll need to satisfy me where he was . ’ |
| 17 | He 'll try to persuade me that he should . |
| 18 | One day , he 'll try to take me out , you know . |
| 19 | Even when I recognized MacQuillan and he might have sensed me looking , he did n't glance up at me . |
| 20 | I could guess that he might have asked me what Gharr had asked — what I was doing on Vadinamia . |
| 21 | He might have told me ! ’ she responded bitterly . |
| 22 | So , even though the man was a stranger and I was afraid of him , I began worrying about his being sick , and the idea that he might die made me feel quite desperate . |
| 23 | Obviously I will send this to both of you and if David is back in England at an appropriate time he might like to join me in discussions with the programmer . |
| 24 | Then started the discussion about where to store it until the inevitable happened , during the course of which the doorbell rang and an elderly neighbour was revealed who had kindly called to introduce himself and to ask if there was anything he could do to help me , as he had heard my husband was ill in hospital . |
| 25 | ‘ He said it was inevitable , that bad blood would always surface in the next generation , and that the only way he could hope to save me was to chase the devil from my soul before he got a proper hold . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ He could have contacted me if he had tried . ’ |
| 27 | I wondered what Stewart Wilson , the Oxford don who had suggested it , would have said if he could have seen me . |
| 28 | Nobody else really liked it , and my dad used to say that he could have sent me any old rubbish in the post and I would have liked it . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ He could have called me Slim . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ He could have warned me . ’ |