Example sentences of "have be worth [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm afraid not ; it should have been worth seeing . |
| 2 | If either of these sentences were true , the story would not have been worth telling , since the conversion would have been a purely fanciful affair which bore no relevance to Lewis at the deepest levels of his being . |
| 3 | Had the disengagement happened in any other way , it would have been worth sending all his army , Normans included , crashing through the trees to clean them out while the fighting-power was still in them and Siward 's troops were disorganised by the sudden descent of the cavalry . |
| 4 | From what you told me , you seemed to feel the opposite : life might have been worth living if he was n't there . ’ |
| 5 | It would have been worth overcoming your natural repugnance . ’ |
| 6 | Under normal circumstances , such as those which have pertained there for at least 685 years , it would hardly have been worth investigating . |
| 7 | So far as I know , she never gave a coherent account to anybody of her recollections , and there is no reason why she should have done ; but just as any scrap of information about Shakespeare — from anybody , a servant , amanuensis , ostler , for instance — would be of the greatest interest , so a testimony from one so close as Miss Hinson would have been worth having . |
| 8 | Cliff 's contribution to the Palace cause would have been worth recording if it had stopped there at the end of 1962–63 , with Palace safely in mid-table but , twelve months later , and courtesy of 20 goals from the big man himself , we were back in Division Two after an absence of 39 years . |