Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] him [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I also had a look at the fact that Toby might well be — or have been — the man I 'd been waiting for , though God knows I 'd never have recognized him in a million years if we had n't happened , entirely by accident , to stumble into each other 's arms . |
| 2 | I could n't have stopped him with an anti-tank gun . |
| 3 | Could I have caught him at a bad moment , could he have mellowed , I could n't believe it . |
| 4 | Would you have made him into the working-class Christopher Fry ? |
| 5 | The self-confidence inspired by his Eton and Trinity background may have helped him in the several differences of opinion he has encountered in his life . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | According to Constanze , he received the news with painful resignation , saying that the situation would have enabled him for the first time to have sufficient leisure to write what he wanted , and to justify his growing reputation ; but instead only death awaited him . |
| 8 | It might have been expected that the tribal masks and statuettes that had such a profound effect on Picasso 's painting would have excited him to a new activity in the field of sculpture as they did Derain and , to a certain extent , Matisse . |
| 9 | The headmistressy tone should have reduced him to an ill-behaved schoolboy . |
| 10 | Sir James Barrie would have known him for a Lost Boy . |
| 11 | Had the batsman not ducked , the ball might have struck him in the solar plexus . |
| 12 | He was described as an enthusiastic , determined and well-turned-out soldier with leadership qualities which could have taken him to the top warrant officer rank . |
| 13 | Some might have taken him for a mere apprentice enchanter who had run away from his master out of defiance , boredom , fear and a lingering taste for heterosexuality . |
| 14 | ‘ Until this happened , I would have described him as a conventional Anglican . |