Example sentences of "had given the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was also noted that Wolfgang Vogel , the lawyer to whom Mr Honecker had given the task of solving the refugee problem , had had his mandate drastically cut back . |
| 2 | In the voting for the Constituent Assembly during the winter of 191 7 his vote , together with that of many thousands of other ex-front soldiers and their wives and neighbours , had given the Bolsheviks healthy rural support . |
| 3 | As has been seen , the progress of Thatcherism had been erratic , even hesitant , since 1979 , though the Falklands victory had given the record of the past four years a spurious consistency . |
| 4 | Since as Jack Droney put it , Brent , with its left-wing trade unionists , ‘ was a bloody good place for the Grunwick strike to happen ’ , one might expect that the union involved had given the strikers not only support but increased impetus in their struggles , but members of the strike committee certainly did not feel this to be so . |
| 5 | The pulling-back of 6th Armoured Brigade had given the Divisional Commander the force he needed to destroy the enemy . |
| 6 | The two weeks of training on the Soltau-Luneberg Training Area had given the Royal Scots the opportunity to test to the full those operating procedures and ideas that had been developed since the conversion to Warrior had started in the new year . |
| 7 | In four years , Famous Players-Lasky had given the go-ahead to only one screenplay from a British writer . |
| 8 | Burnley came from behind to beat Stockport 2-1 at Edgeley Park and could thank their new signing Ron Futcher for the equaliser after Edwards had given the home side the lead . |
| 9 | But Mr Penrice had given the game away . |
| 10 | All over Vienna posters appeared demanding the resignation of the police chief who had given the orders to shoot . |
| 11 | The National Union of Civil and Public Servants claimed that Mr Newton had given the impression of a tendering exercise having taken place . |
| 12 | None of his staff had given the information to the news agency and the explanation was accepted . |
| 13 | While Britain had given the United States wholehearted support in Korea , she had also shown her independence by what the Americans saw as over-precipitate recognition of Communist China , and by Attlee 's personal efforts to dissuade Truman from extending the war to mainland China and from using atomic bombs to settle the conflict . |
| 14 | Perhaps she had given the other place as her address ? |
| 15 | She felt that she had given the whole thing away , that the Hare-woman 's eyes would be able to read all her thoughts from her face and that single word . |
| 16 | An eccentric Welsh atheist , Dr William Price , cremated the body of his illegitimate infant , to whom he had given the name Jesus . |
| 17 | The Adjutant was able to sound thankful where Charles had given the least impression of unwillingness . |
| 18 | Glasgow police , who had given the event their blessing , afterwards had ‘ no knowledge of any great hassle ’ . |
| 19 | The bastard knew by now that he had given the game away . |
| 20 | It may even have been the case — a suggestion emanating , admittedly , from a piece of post-war testimony — that the Reich Propaganda Ministry deliberately started off a rumour that the Führer , on discovering what was taking place ( in an ‘ action ’ which , in reality , he himself had authorized in writing ) , had given the order to halt it immediately . |
| 21 | She had given the instruction herself , saying she could not bear to see the person who had been the instrument through whom she had heard such infamous news . |
| 22 | What the blustering and bullying of Henry VIII had failed to do in the 1540s , the gentler approach of Henri II had now achieved triumphantly ; the Scots had given the French king what they had refused to the English one , control of their queen and , it seemed , control of their country . |
| 23 | When I learnt biology , I was taught that Weismann , although he was right about the independence of germ line and soma , had given the wrong answer to this question . |
| 24 | Two goals in four minutes by Carl Alford had given the Conference team a first-half advantage before they were cancelled out by Brendan Grant and Brian Ross . |
| 25 | The correct approach was to ascertain whether the person who had given the land had pointed out clearly what he intended to be done with it . |
| 26 | The situation was more complicated , due to the fact that certain city officials with vested interests in the tannery operation had given the tannery written permission to send their chemical waste to the city sewage treatment plant , and were openly hostile to attempts by the YCCC or anybody else to raise the subject as a local government issue . |
| 27 | When he had given the wounded the water , he made a second trip . |
| 28 | The Duke told him he had given the trees priority over the house because they took longer to become established , but Kalm drily commented in his diary that his wealth was such that he could have built ‘ a most handsome castle in one year or less ’ . |
| 29 | Frolik certainly did expose some real spies including Nicholas Praeger , who had given the Czechs details of the RAF 's electronic counter-measures equipment codenamed Blue Diver and Red Steer . |
| 30 | Even after Chernobyl , the government had given the go-ahead for the power station , and when the Hinkley C Inquiry was about to open , the foundations of Britain 's first PWR were steadily expanding on the Suffolk coast . |