Example sentences of "have given [pron] [art] [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 | Adorno 's recognition of the radical potential of what he called jazz ( see , for example , Adorno 1976 : 33–4 ) could have given him the theoretical space for such an approach ( it certainly means he has no logical grounds for the theoretical closure he operates , only a self-fulfilling pessimism ) ; but he fails to follow his quest into places where he could have found what he sought , and , more damagingly , he excludes the possibility of any other mode of critique than that associated with alienated individualism . |
11 | I would never have given him the sweet if I knew there was acid in it . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | Although Mikhailichenko should have given them a 15th-minute lead , Marseille increasingly controlled the game . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | ‘ 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 . |
17 | ‘ They might have given you a rough ride at first , but you survived — more than survived ! |
18 | And I could have given you a bad one Dr I could have given you a good one . |
19 | And I could have given you a bad one Dr I could have given you a good one . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | ‘ You shitbag , Tiny , you could have given us a bloody heart attack . ’ |
22 | He 'd probably have given us a proper meal and , and — ‘ |
23 | And erm if they could have given us a proper explanation why they 'd gone back and prove us wrong them fair enough . |