Example sentences of "had given [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had given everything he had . |
| 2 | Other reports said up to a dozen wanted people had given themselves up in Tulkarm . |
| 3 | The addicts thought they were injecting a synthetic heroin , instead they had given themselves a permanent Parkinson-like condition . |
| 4 | She did n't know if they had given themselves sufficient time to think things over before they married — that was the kind of question her sister Louise asked . |
| 5 | The prison department said that by 9.30am the vast majority of prisoners had surrendered and by 11.15 the remaining handful of inmates had given themselves up . |
| 6 | Film and Filming magazine said the film had given everyone an insight into the thinking of Corman and Nicholson . |
| 7 | The Coalisland — Dungannon march had given everyone a good day out and had used up a lot of their energy by the time the moment of confrontation arrived . |
| 8 | He had given her that household , a little society , warming itself in its own glow of virtue , insulating itself from the big bad world ; but within its own limits it had been open and supportive . |
| 9 | He had given her an egg ; an orange egg about four inches long and made , of all things , of soap . |
| 10 | Then her eyes fell briefly on the painting her grandmother had given her . |
| 11 | She saw her work laid out there in the garden , all the muscled cold wet harshness of it ; all the labour and the ingrained resistance to working , and she thanked her mother , who had given her this thing . |
| 12 | He had given her no help throughout the night but it did not lessen her love . |
| 13 | A male friend had tried to dissuade Hale from seeking a much needed job and had given her a thousand dollars to buy ‘ the most beautiful dress in New York ’ , telling her that what she needed was to find a rich husband . |
| 14 | Edward was eager to see and to understand the precise nature and functioning of female anatomy and physiology ; Helen , with equal insistence on their purity of motive and the intense trust in him that love had given her , was surprised by joy , sustained by daydreams of their future Eden together , and fired by his frank letters with their confessions of his adolescent fight against erections , nocturnal emissions , and occasional masturbation . |
| 15 | He supposed that the man with the Northern actorish accent had given her all the advice she needed . |
| 16 | I had given her my electric blanket . |
| 17 | Her response — such a lighting up of her face — made me remember how few times it was likely she had been kissed in her whole life : not as a child , by the parents who had given her away ; not by her old foster parents ; not often , I guessed , even by Beatrice and her boys . |
| 18 | This was even noticeable through the haze of the drug Leila had given her to superficially suppress such feelings . |
| 19 | Lying in bed , Pilade still asleep in her arms , she remembered the journeys she had made with the Brownings and the pleasure the intimacy of the carriage had given her . |
| 20 | When her mother-in-law got off the tram , Anna , waving to her , felt glad she had given her a bar of Zoya 's soap . |
| 21 | This may not appear surprising ; it was certainly a serious drawback for Mary as queen that her upbringing had given her only second-hand knowledge of her country . |
| 22 | Anna had explained , and it had given her the opportunity to describe details her daughter found miraculous . |
| 23 | Antonietta had given her a blouse which , she noticed with interest , was of superior quality to her own . |
| 24 | Her uncle was a slaughterman who had given her an animal on its way to the abattoir . |
| 25 | But altogether her uncle Bean had given her the stiffening she needed . |
| 26 | She hurried on to Horsfall Woods , stopping only at a sweetshop to buy a raspberry lollipop with the threepence Rosalind had given her for taking the letter . |
| 27 | Penny was Sixer of the Kelpies , and when her granny had given her a beautiful budgie for a birthday present she decided to name it Kelpie after her Six , especially as the bird had a little silver patch on his throat — just as if he was wearing the Promise Badge , Penny pointed out gleefully . |
| 28 | In her experience , rigid and unloving church-going had given her no comfort , no sustenance . |
| 29 | She was the organist of a village church , and the freedom from long hours in a shop , or former office work , had given her the opportunity of practising more on her dearly loved organ . |
| 30 | He replied that the daughter could sue under trust for relief so that the whole of what the testator had given her should come to her . |