Example sentences of "would have give a [adj] [noun] " 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 | The Consul General would have given a great deal to stop this exchange going any further but he could hardly say anything without worsening the situation for himself . |
| 3 | He would have given a great deal to have sounded less incredulous . |
| 4 | Pumfrey would have given a great deal to know . |
| 5 | This left him an enormous amount of scope for demonstrating the kind of narrative energy that most English fiction-writers would have given a great deal to acquire . |
| 6 | Chant would have given a good deal to break the bastard 's nose so he bled on it . |
| 7 | I would have given a good deal to have the stalwart Lord Byron by me , armed with the handgun . |
| 8 | It would have given a similar sort of chance to the one he missed in the first minute . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | A moment more , a moment less , a foot more , a foot less , and the meter would have given a different reading . |
| 11 | An action for breach of statutory duty would have given a strict liability action in many cases of road traffic accidents . |
| 12 | However , the first segment would have given a British hearer immediate access to the contextual assumption about house-warming parties , which means that the extra processing entailed by making these assumptions explicit would not have been rewarded by any contextual effect . |