Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] have give a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hope I may have given a few ideas and if anyone makes their fortune and buys a villa in the South of France , will you invite me for a holiday , please ? |
| 2 | ‘ Because if you try to do anything so misguided I might have to give a Press interview to explain just why I got under your skin so badly ! ’ |
| 3 | Alright , she 'll be expecting she reckons she 's due on the twenty third of March , but the hospital say it 's , it 's the twenty ninth , so it 'll be next week , I 'll have to give a ring , we went to see her the other week , to see how she was , erm we went round er one night , I rung her up to see if she 'd be in , I said right we 'll be round for an hour |
| 4 | Well if you asked me that ten or fifteen years ago I think I could have given a rather easy answer erm namely that development studies was concerned with the problems of countries in Africa , Asia and Latin America , and how they could erm accelerate their economic , social and political development to provide better living standards for all their population . |
| 5 | ‘ I can well comprehend your daughter 's being upset but , I assure you , I would have given a great deal to prevent it . |
| 6 | ‘ I would have given a fortune to touch your hand , ’ cried Boldwood wildly , ‘ but you have let a man like that — kiss you ! |
| 7 | Lord save us , I would have given a bag of silver for the sounds and smells of old Cheapside ! |
| 8 | I would have given a good deal to have the stalwart Lord Byron by me , armed with the handgun . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 11 | For example , this selection of flowers could have been framed in a pale green mount , or the entire design could have been created on a very pale blue-grey background with no mount at all , both of which would have given a very different emphasis to the pink roses . |
| 12 | In fact , the high quality of iron ore available to the Romans in Britain combined with the use of charcoal fuel in the smelting process , meant that they could have been producing steel which would have given a much harder and sharper edge to the blade than normal iron . |
| 13 | You are all familiar with our loyal supporters , but what about those people on the fringes who may have given a donation or done something for Save The Children in the past , but never really followed it up and there are the people who are interested who think , it 's a charity I feel I ought to support . |
| 14 | And then immediately wondered if she should have given a more positive reply . |
| 15 | If he turned and looked at her , she might have to give a straight reply , but to his narrow back , which could have been the back of a much younger man , she began to tease , in the way that she had learned so many of her new friends liked , when they made similar inquiries too , like the painter who 'd lain on her bed and asked her earnestly if she 'd ever experienced simultaneous orgasm , or the musician who 'd volunteered he 'd show her a ‘ perversion ’ he was sure nobody would have demonstrated to her before , and began nuzzling between her legs . |
| 16 | Bought a Vax , they said no they 're a con do n't worry , he said with a little bit of luck you 'll get one that 'll be free , you 'll have to give a report on it once a month , then about after nine months they give it to you if they thought |
| 17 | When I had spare time , but if you 'd If it was decent weather you 'd have to give a hand in the garden at home you see ? |
| 18 | Had he not assumed the initiative it was feasible she would have given a reason to keep them out . |
| 19 | When she was hurt she put herself out of reach ; Caro knew that by now , and she would have given a lot to undo the conversation . |
| 20 | We can not remember anyone ever asking us these questions and we are not sure we could have given a reasonable answer until we had been married nearly twenty years . |
| 21 | The drought in Zimbabwe , so the needs are massive , and if we can just make some kind of a major inroad into one million pounds , then we will have given an awful lot of people new hope . |
| 22 | Erm I do n't know if if I 'm right in saying , but I think they may have given a tip to other people like er the chore boy , there used to be a chore boy . |
| 23 | Minister Walsh said he could have given an identical speech . |
| 24 | Louis examined Trent with less emotion than he would have given a sandwich . |
| 25 | He would have given a great deal to have sounded less incredulous . |
| 26 | The judge applied a multiplier of 12 years ; and he said that he would have given a multiplier of ten , but he gave 12 to protect against the possibility of future inflation . |
| 27 | It would have given a similar sort of chance to the one he missed in the first minute . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The Criminal Law Revision Committee , Eighth Report , Theft and Related Offences , Cmnd 2977 , para. 123 , goes against Lambert in that it would have given a defence only when the accused 's act was " morally and socially acceptable " . |
| 30 | WITH its every utterance the board down at Feethams is approaching the moment when it will have to give a vote of confidence to its manager . |