Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] a [adj] [noun] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would have given a good deal to have the stalwart Lord Byron by me , armed with the handgun . |
| 2 | He would have given a great deal to have sounded less incredulous . |
| 3 | In July he was given an Irish peerage as Viscount Fitzhardinge , and would have received an English title had the king not been conscious of hostility to his courtiers in the English House of Commons . |
| 4 | LATE-NIGHT revellers who may have seen a vicious assault have ignored police appeals to come forward . |
| 5 | She was a pretty woman and would have had a good figure had she not been pregnant . |
| 6 | Oddly enough I may never have had an operational tour had it not been for one of these fellow travellers . |
| 7 | In fact , if the problem is set within the context of an evidently powerful late-tenth-century Danish monarchy , it is difficult to believe that Harald Bluetooth or his son could not have introduced a naval system had they wished , and when the concern about the country 's southern land defences is remembered , along with the importance that must also have been attached to protection from sea-borne attack , it might seem more likely than not that they did wish . |
| 8 | He hoped to make amends in the 200 metres and would have started a clear favourite had first the marksman and then the referee not barred him from lining up for the heats . |
| 9 | As there is little work in the shipyards , it would have taken a special appeal to have convinced them to down tools . |
| 10 | necessarily calling for radicalization cos it was forced erm I , I , it appeared to me that how that the Communist Party would have continued a moderate policy had the peasants not erm been demanding further radical change and in actual fact the tone of the document 's quite moderate and it 's protecting middle peasants , rich peasants , even some landlords who had remained loyal to the Party so it 's not at all radical but erm it 's just it 's radical in the sense that how that it wants to get rid of feudalism , but it 's not getting rid of landlords per se as a class . |
| 11 | Gascoigne and his colleagues would have faced a fierce backlash had Lazio lost to bitter local rivals Roma in the Olympic Stadium . |