Example sentences of "have give " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least one member of the jury said he would not have given a sentence of death ( which must be unanimous ) had he known that Prejean had suffered prolonged mental and physical abuse from his guardians . |
| 2 | To think that the selfsame parents could have given birth to the two of us , she says . |
| 3 | Winning the John Moores would have given me just the confidence I needed . |
| 4 | ‘ Yes , ’ Sven Hjerson went on , ‘ it is in fact , I am thinking , that all those people who might have given that not very well balanced car the one push needed have also possible reasons for wishing the death of Lord Woodleigh . |
| 5 | But to the ‘ rebellion ’ ( which may have given rise to something far deeper , as we shall see ) we must add two further emphases which we have italicised . |
| 6 | Mother would have given me a cuddle , and she was n't given to cuddles . |
| 7 | We hope to ensure that every candidate will have given some consideration to the issues which affect older people . |
| 8 | In the mid 1970s there was an abortive attempt to develop a new way of managing the industry in the Territories Plan ( which would have given a structure very similar to that developed in Germany in much earlier years and still in use both on DB and DR ) , but this failed largely on account of union opposition . |
| 9 | He got off the mark with an uppish straight drive for four , which might have given a less myopic bowler than Malcolm a return catch , and in Malcolm 's next over , he attempted a square slash which , if he had got an edge , might have prevented him ever setting foot in India again . |
| 10 | As for Mozart himself , who had married the sister of the woman he loved , the subject of Cosi must surely have given him food for thought . |
| 11 | ‘ Fortunately I was strong , but had I been weak , I might have given in . |
| 12 | If your employee is not entitled to SMP , you need to complete form SMP1 and give it to her together with any maternity certificate which she may have given you . |
| 13 | Election experts could legitimately point to the fact that a system of proportional voting could have given a very different result . |
| 14 | Samuel was not , of course , a party leader , and there is no way of knowing what advice Lloyd George would have given had he been fit . |
| 15 | Fenna might have given her both appetite and menstruation in his parting , but neither of them seemed as though they were worth the effort . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | What I would have given for a sesame bap . |
| 18 | ‘ My father would n't have given a lift to anyone . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | However , a free-kick from Nevin nearly brought them a goal immediately before Pearce should have given Forest the lead . |
| 21 | It was a good contest that will have given the England team manager Geoff Cooke at least one hint about filling the vacant places in his training squad for Lanzarote in the new year . |
| 22 | Such a volume , Shaw calculated , would have given a rise in global sea level of 230mm within a matter of weeks . |
| 23 | In similar circumstances in previous elections the dissatisfied Tories would have given the Liberals and the Social Democrats the benefit of their protest . |
| 24 | Data accumulated subsequently suggests that the M 52 could have been flown safely and might have given the British aircraft industry a commanding lead in supersonic fighter development . |
| 25 | If she had cashed in her units at that day 's prices , just two of 102 ‘ UK general ’ trusts recorded by Finstat ( a Financial Times subsidiary ) would have given her back 100% or more of the money she put in a year earlier . |
| 26 | ALONG with many other newspapers , we may have given the impression that California was suffering from a five-year drought ( ‘ The other desert war ’ , February 16th ) . |
| 27 | The eyes alone could never have given me so profound a sense of Spring , of Maytime and the blossoming of hawthorn upon the heaths and wild cherry at the border of the beech copses . |
| 28 | It is interesting to think that had they snatched — or preferably caught cleanly — that victory , the pattern of English Test cricket might have been changed for years ahead , for , as the other four matches were all drawn , a victorious first series might have given Botham 's captaincy the shove it needed to get airborne . |
| 29 | ‘ England 's batting , fielding and — apart from Emburey and Edmonds — their bowling proclaimed the lack of practice and resolve on a slow pitch which , had they been in the right frame of mind , would have given them an even chance of levelling the series , ’ asserted Wisden . |
| 30 | X-ray fluorescence ( XRE ) analysis ( see glossary ) of solders used on Roman silver suggests that the Roman silversmith did indeed use several different solders which could have given him a working temperature range from the melting point of silver ( 960°C ) , down to 180°C . |