Example sentences of "had given him " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was quite frank about the whole thing , told us H. had given him a fiver to turn up , asked Madge if she wanted to go through with it , which of course she did n't . |
| 2 | She remembered the evening because his parents had given him an awful sweater for his birthday and between comedy programmes on the television she and Alan thought up alternative uses for an awful sweater . |
| 3 | The old man was delighted with the packet of cigarettes Sid had given him in exchange for the cider . |
| 4 | Certainly Eliot 's studies in Sanskrit and Pali at Harvard under Lanman and Woods had given him a thorough knowledge of Indian thought , but it is probable that Kipling 's version of metempsychosis had at least an equally important effect . |
| 5 | Eliot , who invited his friends to this performance , who attended some of the rehearsals , and who expressed his full confidence in the director Rupert Doone , continued to follow in his text the original impetus which Cornford had given him . |
| 6 | But by keeping him secret she had given him too much power . |
| 7 | As Marx rightly comments in his notebook , Maine seems unable to imagine property in terms other than the legal terms which his training had given him . |
| 8 | ‘ We , the second generation of Pininfarina , had given him great joy and pride . |
| 9 | ‘ Are you out of your … ? his father stopped and looked in a startled manner at his mother , who had given him a sharp dig , then began to cough . |
| 10 | She excused herself hurriedly and left , returning with a great bustle to announce her coming , when she had given him time to compose himself . |
| 11 | Before they left , Gallardo shook Valenzuela 's hand and thanked him for the cigarettes he had given him in captivity . |
| 12 | But she knew her hesitation had given him a lead . |
| 13 | He had the drive and determination that Macmillan sought , and his time in the Ministry of Supply had given him experience in , and a fascination for , advanced technology in weapon development . |
| 14 | The father 's preparation for the Civil Service Examination — probably as rigorous an academic test as the external London matriculation examinations of the first forty years of this century — had given him command of three languages , Latin , French , and German , and a powerful interest in political and philosophical topics . |
| 15 | That house had given him a headache . |
| 16 | Mrs Wright had given him the key to lock the door but he had n't locked it . |
| 17 | Uncle Walter had given him the photograph . |
| 18 | The helmet was identical to the one Uncle Walter had given him . |
| 19 | ‘ Lots of them did n't , ’ said Lee , running down the passage and into the kitchen that Philip had been in yesterday morning where Mrs Wright had given him a cup of tea . |
| 20 | Philip held out the paper that the chocolate bar Lee had given him had been wrapped in . |
| 21 | Often , he had to hide the marks Gina had given him from his pupils . |
| 22 | He had despised her thoroughly ever since she had given him some dire warnings about the state of his aura , and he felt she would be perfect for this review . |
| 23 | He believed if only his parents had given him more confidence and the right backing , he would have made a very good male model . |
| 24 | He betrayed no feelings to anyone in the country that had given him asylum . |
| 25 | He would not know what to do if her eyes told him to stay when Buddie had given him permission to leave . |
| 26 | She had given him some newspaper torn into squares and a glass of dark-brown liquid that tasted like spanish water . |
| 27 | Poindexter , although he had cautioned North not to ‘ talk in plain language ’ , confessed that he had never used the three-by-five cards covered with codes that North had given him ; he just carried them in his briefcase . |
| 28 | His colleagues at the NSC , John Lang continued , had given him the nickname ‘ Knight Rider ’ , after the television hero ( ’ one man and his machine , dedicated to the righting of wrongs ’ ) , for his disappearances to confer with the contras . |
| 29 | Not a word had she received from Pilade 's father as to his son 's welfare all this long time and if she had given him cause , as he might argue , to abandon her she had given him no such leave to forget his child . |
| 30 | Not a word had she received from Pilade 's father as to his son 's welfare all this long time and if she had given him cause , as he might argue , to abandon her she had given him no such leave to forget his child . |