Example sentences of "have [verb] a [adj] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chant would have given a good deal to break the bastard 's nose so he bled on it . |
| 2 | I would have given a good deal to have the stalwart Lord Byron by me , armed with the handgun . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He would have given a great deal to have sounded less incredulous . |
| 6 | ‘ I can well comprehend your daughter 's being upset but , I assure you , I would have given a great deal to prevent it . |
| 7 | Pumfrey would have given a great deal to know . |
| 8 | ‘ You would have to go a long way to see a better game than that . |
| 9 | Drivers coming from Teesside Airport and heading north would have to go a significant distance to use it . ’ |
| 10 | I 'll have to write a wee note to say that I 've to come and get you about ten to twelve . |
| 11 | The chances are that Britain will have to find a new place to dump waste by the end of the decade . |
| 12 | If I could have seen a respectable way to dismiss this appeal I should have been happy to do so . |
| 13 | Even where you have to answer set questions — as in an exam — a choice between alternatives usually has to be made ; and not only do you have to pick a particular question to answer , but you also have to decide exactly what it is that the question is asking you to do . |
| 14 | A lesser man than the Archdeacon would have made a mental note to avoid this rash abandonment of the riches offered by the Prayer Book collect in favour of a misshapen modernity . |
| 15 | By now you will have made a definite decision to become an actor — no matter what the problems or obstacles . |
| 16 | Had I known that the previous year , I could have made a good case to contest the abolition of my old job . |
| 17 | The cellar , being a sort of tunnel between yard and house , would have made an excellent place to play in on wet days . |
| 18 | Do children have to cross a busy street to get to it ? |
| 19 | The question that ocurrs here is whether responsibility is deminished because there is a likelyhood that the provokation would have lead a reasonable man to loose his self-control and inflict this grievious harm . |
| 20 | I 'd have to buy an electric boiler to replace the gas one which had been leaking for a week now . |
| 21 | Any member of stab who went into the Biology Lab before her would have needed a good excuse to explain his presence there , unless , of course , he was a member of the Biology Department . |
| 22 | But , at Seattle women 's art was so prolific that you would have needed a whole month to do the work justice . |
| 23 | My two and a quarter petrol 1981 SWB would have needed an expensive conversion to run on unleaded petrol so I am using Carbonflo instead . |
| 24 | And I think it w w was quite difficult for people because they 'd either have to walk a long way to try and make a telephone call . |
| 25 | The Durotriges , with most probably the southern branch of the Dubunni , gave the Romans serious trouble , so it can be assumed that they may have supplied a strong detachment to help oppose the Medway crossing . |
| 26 | For all I know they may have been part-time MPs , or they may have had a limited electorate to represent . |
| 27 | Tonson would have had a strong incentive to make the effort to accommodate this particular late arrival : unlike ‘ Ye gentle spirits of the air ’ , which is a virtuoso show-piece full of semiquaver pyrotechnics ( and therefore unsuitable for the amateur market ) , it was included in the Select Songs volume — so to omit it from the word-book might have led to complaints . |
| 28 | If she had said no he would have had a long way to jump . |
| 29 | This meant they must have had a hired car to take them to the airport or have gone by tube . |
| 30 | It may not be a good reason to us , but they must have had a good reason to do it , either family-wise or tension-wise , or because of life in general . |