Example sentences of "[noun sg] would [verb] [vb pp] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unshielded , and with real blades , the stroke would have decapitated him . |
| 2 | However , the Court of Appeal gave the plaintiff his costs of the appeal because it was unlikely that the defendant would have allowed him to take out from the sum paid into court an amount equal to the increased amount the Court of Appeal eventually awarded him . |
| 3 | Presumably , the estate agent would have given him a lift somewhere . |
| 4 | If he had n't jumped then the car would have hit him . |
| 5 | Common sense and a rudimentary knowledge of first aid would have saved him . ’ |
| 6 | His alcoholism would have made him an unsuitable colleague for revolutionaries obsessed with the need for secrecy and the dangers of indiscretion . |
| 7 | Had it not been his solicitors the Inland Revenue would have got him yesterday for unpaid tax bills , but its petition was dismissed automatically once the High Court heard that a bankruptcy order had already been made . |
| 8 | Blocking the BA/USAir deal would have required him to renounce the current aviation treaty between the two countries which would have been ‘ a very dramatic step ’ . |
| 9 | Blocking the BA/USAir deal would have required him to renounce the current aviation treaty between the two countries which would have been ‘ a very dramatic step ’ . |
| 10 | A length of brown satin would have killed him . |
| 11 | The solicitor who gave those undertakings was not made a party to the proceedings , although if he had been held out by his firm as a partner , s14 of the Partnership Act would have fixed him with potential liability . |
| 12 | Ian Watson was a dedicated , somewhat highly strung young man whose intelligence would have enabled him to have passed his final exams had his father realised that a reasonable allowance was so necessary . |
| 13 | The check would have given him more control over the hammers and the freedom to play more powerfully than he had done in 1777 , without making the piano jangle . |
| 14 | The Mafia would have loved him . ’ |
| 15 | Sober reflection would have shown him that the sensible procedure would have been to phone the police and get them to ask the Bomb Disposal Squad to come and check the bag out . |
| 16 | A moment 's reflection would have helped him to see the folly , cruelty , and hypocrisy of trying to force someone to acknowledge this . |
| 17 | Even a slight awareness of A. S. Neill 's compassionate philosophy would have prevented him from making the inept link with the Nazis and racism . |
| 18 | The gunsmith would have murdered him or had a heart attack . |
| 19 | She ought to have known that only matters of business would have brought him to her door . |
| 20 | His closeness to the king and his enthusiasm for the war would have ensured him a place as a leader of the younger generation of nobles , and his death was yet another misfortune for the king . |
| 21 | More , probably , as some flashy film-star would have grabbed him before long . |
| 22 | Otherwise he his conscience would have bothered him I think . |
| 23 | Had Jonah been less indigestible how can we be sure that the whale would have expelled him ? |
| 24 | A single blow on the back of the head would have stunned him , might even have killed him outright . ’ |
| 25 | His companion was a head shorter and he was thin ; but a reader of character would have stamped him the more evil of the two . |
| 26 | Evans-Pritchard , too , followed this style of research because no other would have enabled him to gain the insights that he wanted . |
| 27 | The Establishment of Jesus 's day would have liked him to establish a political kingdom for the Jews , but he said , ‘ My Kingdom is not of this world . ’ |
| 28 | Shell-shocked was almost how the Colonel would have described him . |
| 29 | Hindsight says that if the Lotus mechanics had n't worked so hard and so efficiently and if Emerson had n't been able to race , Jackie Stewart 's two victories in the last grands prix of the season would have given him the championship . |
| 30 | Few of the cast would have seen him in the revues of the late thirties where his career started , but they would all have caught up with the films he had made in the immediate post-war years . |