Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] have given a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I can well comprehend your daughter 's being upset but , I assure you , I would have given a great deal to prevent it . |
| 2 | I would have given a good deal to have the stalwart Lord Byron by me , armed with the handgun . |
| 3 | We can not remember anyone ever asking us these questions and we are not sure we could have given a reasonable answer until we had been married nearly twenty years . |
| 4 | He would have given a great deal to have sounded less incredulous . |
| 5 | If earlier national and local links still existed it would have given a helpful criterion to governors to know whether their school was being managed well . |
| 6 | It would have given a similar sort of chance to the one he missed in the first minute . |