Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [pers pn] a [adj] " 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 | His mother was a Parr , which may have given him an independent entree into Gloucester 's service , but he could equally well have come to the duke 's attention through the Percy connection . |
| 9 | His mother was a Parr , which may have given him an independent entree into Gloucester 's service , but he could equally well have come to the duke 's attention through the Percy connection . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Although Mikhailichenko should have given them a 15th-minute lead , Marseille increasingly controlled the game . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ They might have given you a rough ride at first , but you survived — more than survived ! |
| 16 | And I could have given you a bad one Dr I could have given you a good one . |
| 17 | And I could have given you a bad one Dr I could have given you a good one . |
| 18 | Seventy years of Byrd on record must have given us a good 50 versions of ‘ Ave verum corpus ’ but not a single one of ‘ Deus venerunt gentes ’ The reasons for this are not hard to find . |
| 19 | ‘ You shitbag , Tiny , you could have given us a bloody heart attack . ’ |
| 20 | He 'd probably have given us a proper meal and , and — ‘ |
| 21 | And erm if they could have given us a proper explanation why they 'd gone back and prove us wrong them fair enough . |
| 22 | 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 ! |
| 23 | The many hours we have spent playing , seeing , hearing whilst making these films have taught us a great deal . |
| 24 | To a man , of course , we 'd have considered it an enormous privilege to have met our maker while in the presence of a man who , as the greatest Olympian , is something of a sporting god . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , you should have done it a long time ago ; you need a rest . ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | He paused , then added dispassionately , ‘ Had she been born a man , those traits would have made her an excellent ruler . ’ |
| 28 | His alcoholism would have made him an unsuitable colleague for revolutionaries obsessed with the need for secrecy and the dangers of indiscretion . |
| 29 | A well-rounded elder statesman : Denis Healey has a personal Hinterland , filled with poetry , history , classics and philosophy , which he fears may have made him an over-tolerant politician . |
| 30 | ‘ 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 . ’ |