Example sentences of "would [verb] [verb] him the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Should have worn gloves because they would have protected his hands , but they would have denied him the freedom of movement that he now needed . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This would have given him the opportunity to be a restraining influence against the extremists . |
| 5 | Clearly some forward planning in 1992 would have given him the opportunity to organise his affairs and avoid many of his problems . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ I believe it was a very fair offer which would have given him the option of walking away with his dignity , but he said it was derisory and there are no more offers to be made . ’ |
| 8 | He was a good head taller than she was , and in other circumstances she would have judged him the heart-throb type , with his dramatic dark looks , reckless mouth , strong jaw and a piratical scar across one cheek giving his faultless right profile the touch of humanity it needed . |
| 9 | She was gaping at him while telling herself that her mother would have told him the reason why she was here . |
| 10 | Then Baldwin saw him again and told hint that were it not for his age and his health ( neither of which had greatly changed in the preceding forty-eight hours ) , he would have offered him the vacancy , but as it was it had better go to Eden . |