Example sentences of "that [modal v] have [verb] he [adj] " in BNC.

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1 In the genre terms , that ought to have made him unassailable .
2 The door was slammed wide , and he came at her with the speed of the vehicle that should have killed him two nights before .
3 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 .
4 He smiled for a long moment into the raging eyes that would have struck him dead if they could .
5 But if she 'd wanted to she could easily have told him something that would have stopped him dead in his tracks .
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