Example sentences of "have [verb] [pers pn] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Without realizing I was lucky that her hands were stuck in the dough she w she would have given me a thick ear you know for for for doing that .
2 She prospered at GSA nevertheless , coming out with the second highest marks in her final year , which should have given her a valuable travelling scholarship .
3 Why could n't he have given her a different choice , one that did n't involve old loyalties ?
4 I could have given him a straight rejection , but I suppose that was not in my nature .
5 I mean , I would have given him a good kick if I 'd do stood along side of him !
6 ‘ Even before you pointed out his similarity to Clinton , I would have given him a reasonable rating .
7 But Jack did n't know that and , even if he had known , it would only have given him a false feeling of security , because the threat from streptomycin , when it came , was not of a hind that he could have imagined or foreseen .
8 In so doing they will be building on their earlier writing experiences which should have given them a positive view of themselves as writers who are capable of making and receiving meanings using a variety of forms depending on audience and purpose .
9 Although Mikhailichenko should have given them a 15th-minute lead , Marseille increasingly controlled the game .
10 In theory , during this period their potential to adapt technology to source inputs locally ( as had occurred in Biafra during the civil war ) , rather than to import them might have given them a competitive edge over the large manufacturing companies managed and partly owned from overseas .
11 Under the energetic leadership of H. L. Dowbiggin , Inspector-General from 1913 to 1937 , the police gained sophistication which may have given them a relative advantage over some lawbreakers .
12 ‘ They might have given you a rough ride at first , but you survived — more than survived !
13 ‘ You shitbag , Tiny , you could have given us a bloody heart attack . ’
14 He 'd probably have given us a proper meal and , and — ‘
15 And erm if they could have given us a proper explanation why they 'd gone back and prove us wrong them fair enough .
16 they they get an allowance for somebody to clean and if they 've got a cleaner , I mean , they should have sacked them a long while ago !
17 The many hours we have spent playing , seeing , hearing whilst making these films have taught us a great deal .
18 ‘ Well , you should have done it a long time ago ; you need a rest . ’
19 But her belief that all women , regardless of wealth , should be offered clothes that were artistic and beautiful , not brash , sexually offensive or uncomfortable , would have made her a worthy member of most of the nineteenth-century dress reform movements .
20 ‘ If I did not believe that , I would have advised our club president , James King , to go to a venue that would have made us a comparative fortune . ’
21 It remains to decide whether the Unionists would have accepted fusion if Lloyd George could have made it a real option in 1920 .
22 He says that the hospital should have told them a new machine was n't being bought .
23 ‘ If I had n't known you could by last night , ’ she retorted , ‘ I 'd have got me a spare staff nurse even if it had meant taking this bloody hospital apart .
24 On the other hand , he was n't all that heavily built and a strong man — or woman , come to that — could have dragged him a short distance . ’
25 She would have to give him a certain amount of freedom she supposed , there was not way around that .
26 Whatever type of path you intend to lay , you will have to give it a proper foundation if it is to last for any length of time .
27 We 'll have to give you a new name .
28 Three days before he died , in a master stroke of irony , the emperor confirmed his appointment as kapellmeister at St Stephen 's — a post which would have brought him a steady income of 2,000 gulden a year .
29 This snow will have cost you a small fortune in wasted hay by the time it thaws , but it was the right thing to do , it 's saved your stock . ’
30 ‘ That must have cost you a great deal , Caroline . ’
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