Example sentences of "[modal v] [not/n't] [verb] give [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd not have given you the task otherwise ! ’ |
| 2 | I know I could n't begin to give you the kind of life you 'd have with Dunbar , but I 'd do everything in my power to make you happy . ’ |
| 3 | Several minutes later he added : ‘ But I would not like to give you the impression I have worked for either of them yet . ’ |
| 4 | It was gratifying to have people shake her hand who once would n't have given her the time of day , and when she walked through the dreary rooms where evidence of the late Adelaide Morey still abounded she had trouble convincing herself that she was now the mistress here . |
| 5 | I think that if she had n't known us ; that I was a groom and Copper was pretty sensible , she would n't have given me the choice of trying to save him , especially as he was seventeen years old . |
| 6 | I would n't have given you the mark for covered . |