Example sentences of "that [modal v] have [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the genre terms , that ought to have made him unassailable . |
| 2 | Gooch has been unwell for several weeks , playing in the first Test at Calcutta with a chest infection that should have ruled him out , missing the three-day match at Vishakhapatnam because he still felt weak , and then pulling out of the second Test at Madras after his infamous encounter with a poisonous prawn . |
| 3 | Who was he , this man who knew her name , who got up from a collision that should have killed him outright , and still managed to outrun a healthy man ? |
| 4 | The door was slammed wide , and he came at her with the speed of the vehicle that should have killed him two nights before . |
| 5 | The shot that should have finished him never came . |
| 6 | With a shoe clutched in each hand he was unable to make a grab for the rougher stones that might have saved him from disaster . |
| 7 | It was a time for thanking God that Matthew had turned his back on the badness that might have dragged him down . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | And he simply could not think of anything that might have made him become a Muslim . |
| 10 | He set his teeth against every concession that might have got him his liberty , bent on doing Isambard 's work for him , as Isambard had all along intended he should . |
| 11 | In 1914 Watson left National Cash Register under a cloud of monopoly and competitive charges that might have put him in jail . |
| 12 | This time there was plenty of evidence that could have saved him the trouble of the trip . |
| 13 | He was n't privy to any really sensitive stuff that could have put him in danger — that 's according to my liaison fella in SIS . ’ |
| 14 | Mr Major was saved from a crushing defeat that could have forced him to quit after several leading Tory Eurosceptics yielded to unprecedented arm-twisting from Government whips and constituency chairmen to back down . |
| 15 | He smiled for a long moment into the raging eyes that would have struck him dead if they could . |
| 16 | But if she 'd wanted to she could easily have told him something that would have stopped him dead in his tracks . |
| 17 | CHINA 'S hardline vice-president Wang Zhen died yesterday , just days before a meeting of parliament that would have retired him from his post . |
| 18 | At the other end the Vice-President of the United States of America used language for several minutes that would have lost him the votes of the Moral Majority , had those good citizens had the opportunity to hear him . |
| 19 | Hardy lacked the social confidence to make his way in professional circles , and also the formal education that would have enabled him to follow Horace Moule , his close friend from Dorchester days , to university and a career in the church . |
| 20 | Driving with difficulty through torrential rain while thunder and lightning crashed overhead , Jack found himself in a narrow West Country lane , realising that he had missed the turning that would have brought him back on to the main road . |
| 21 | Francis could have been involved in something a bit shady but nothing that would have brought him within range of any violence . |
| 22 | The sort of thing that would have delighted him a few months ago — he would have chuckled over its witty irreverence , and imagined with pleasure Clare 's shock and embarrassment had she come across it . |
| 23 | The one thing that would have persuaded him to accept an invitation for the Stuttgart Ballet to go to South Africa would have been if he could show a really good black dancer working alongside the whites . |