Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] have been [adj] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should have been able to give him something to hope for , " he thought with a sigh , as he descended the half dozen stairs and went to kneel beside Miriam on the stone flags . |
| 2 | I 'd have been glad to give a wee helping hand there myself , and I 'm sure one was needed . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I would have been happy to give you three times the amount — if your story had proved that the boy was good . ’ |
| 4 | He may have been reluctant to give up a conquest of his illustrious forbear , Julius Caesar . |
| 5 | The irony of the position described by my hon. Friend the Member for Makerfield ( Mr. McCartney ) is that , if Wigan had received the same amount in grant as was received by Wandsworth and Westminster in the year in which it was capped , it would not have had to levy a tax at all ; indeed , it might have been able to give money back from the previous year 's levy . |
| 6 | On the German side I interviewed Baron von Mullenheim-Rechberg , the Bismarck 's fourth gunnery officer and senior surviving officer , a former assistant naval attaché at the German Embassy in London without whose fluent and colloquial English it would have been impossible to give the film the necessary balance . |
| 7 | Well that 's why I said ten or fifteen years ago it would have been easy to give an answer . |
| 8 | I say no , I say it would have been harsh to give it . |