Example sentences of "would have given " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would 've given us another month to play with at least . |
| 2 | The controls are slow and unresponsive — let's face it , with the amount of platform beat-'em-ups around you 'd have thought the programmers would 've given a bit more care and attention to this aspect , not to mention the graphics , presentation … the game in general really . |
| 3 | As a standalone machine I would 've given it a fourth star . |
| 4 | Right , from Highgate has said if the good lord wanted cats to fly he would 've given them wings , it 's cruel doing things like that to animals . |
| 5 | That money could have electrified railways that would 've given industry a chance to get its goods into Europe . |
| 6 | You had a choice of an eight or a three I had two jacks and a king you chose the three , the two turned up that would 've given you eight and a but you picked the three so that 'll give you more in the box as well an three hit your three hit your hand as well so |
| 7 | Sorry that was squared yeah so the differential of that would 've given us twice er would have given us twice that . |
| 8 | no good it 's three times too much so he must have started off with X cubed over three and that would 've given us one third of three X squared |
| 9 | No but you were saying before that had it worked it would 've given them a problem . |
| 10 | Winning the John Moores would have given me just the confidence I needed . |
| 11 | Mother would have given me a cuddle , and she was n't given to cuddles . |
| 12 | In the mid 1970s there was an abortive attempt to develop a new way of managing the industry in the Territories Plan ( which would have given a structure very similar to that developed in Germany in much earlier years and still in use both on DB and DR ) , but this failed largely on account of union opposition . |
| 13 | Samuel was not , of course , a party leader , and there is no way of knowing what advice Lloyd George would have given had he been fit . |
| 14 | What I would have given for a sesame bap . |
| 15 | Such a volume , Shaw calculated , would have given a rise in global sea level of 230mm within a matter of weeks . |
| 16 | In similar circumstances in previous elections the dissatisfied Tories would have given the Liberals and the Social Democrats the benefit of their protest . |
| 17 | If she had cashed in her units at that day 's prices , just two of 102 ‘ UK general ’ trusts recorded by Finstat ( a Financial Times subsidiary ) would have given her back 100% or more of the money she put in a year earlier . |
| 18 | ‘ England 's batting , fielding and — apart from Emburey and Edmonds — their bowling proclaimed the lack of practice and resolve on a slow pitch which , had they been in the right frame of mind , would have given them an even chance of levelling the series , ’ asserted Wisden . |
| 19 | With the already established public accounts committee , this would have given four such bodies , each with a salaried chairman , and the Catholics were to be given two of the chairs with the committees being made up to reflect parliamentary seats . |
| 20 | Certainly , the illness would have given me plenty of opportunities to make strings of fireworks fizzle and explode in bright , whirling wheels of sulphurous pain in and behind Miller 's word-jellied eyeballs . |
| 21 | But this time there would be a complete novelty , and one that would have given the most strongly anti-Marian pause . |
| 22 | The inclusion of such relatively unimportant details would have given Wellesley a more human frame during the most formative period of his life in India . |
| 23 | This , it is thought , would have given him time to renegotiate exemption and pay only 40 per cent capital gains . |
| 24 | My all-time favourite remark was made by a visiting Chesterfield supporter who watched silently as his team prepared to take a penalty in the dying seconds of a game at Barnsley which would have given them the draw . |
| 25 | Mr Jarvis , who spent £40m expanding the chain on the Continent in recent years , said the decision followed Whitbread 's inability to negotiate a new exit clause in the franchise agreement which would have given it more protection . |
| 26 | In July 1990 , he grabbed the last qualifying place for the World Championship cycle in a hard-fought tournament in Manila by defeating Mikhail Gurevich , one of Kasparov 's former trainers , in the final game from a position most players would have given up as a draw . |
| 27 | This would have given him the opportunity to be a restraining influence against the extremists . |
| 28 | Add a small local earthquake and most men would have given up the ghost . |
| 29 | The matron of a residential home , talking about a doctor who she felt was reluctant to visit said it would have been helpful if the person who died had been visited more often : ‘ It would have given her a lot more comfort and the staff a lot more confidence . ’ |
| 30 | Louis examined Trent with less emotion than he would have given a sandwich . |