Example sentences of "had given to " in BNC.
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| 1 | A copy of a paper he had given to the British Association on ‘ The car of the future ’ led to his being summoned to Detroit , and to a commission to design and build it . |
| 2 | By the second half of the 1980s oil was cheap once again , thanks to the spur the crises had given to non-OPEC developments like the Alaska North Slope and North Sea oil fields . |
| 3 | IN his last letter to Ashcroft Noble , Edward tried to express his thanks to the dying man for the new direction he had given to his life : |
| 4 | On that third morning , though , it had been Haynes who led out the home team , since Richards was in the press box breathing fire at Daily Express journalist James Lawton who had asked him for an explanation of the V-sign he had given to his own crowd . |
| 5 | It was a little different from the age I had given to my employers ! |
| 6 | Yes , that was the card he had given to old Jackdaw to post but he really did n't want all this aggravation , he was happy the way he was . |
| 7 | It was divided into two parts , her own list of household requirements , and the list that Isabel had given to her , which read : |
| 8 | The idea of ‘ Napoleonism ’ , that is , the concept of the Emperor as a phenomenon of history and therefore politically dead , was one which appealed to the conservative strata of French society , which were glad to remember the glory the Emperor had given to France but had no wish to see him re-embodied . |
| 9 | It was clear that the responses they had given to the respective campaign teams were not necessarily accurate . |
| 10 | It also allows you to start a newness within your mind which was hitherto filled with the pain of loss and the pain of the control you had given to another to live your life . |
| 11 | ‘ The basic concept was that there should be a period of restraint to redress the balance of what has been a tremendous amount of development over the years , ’ he said , referring to the support the parish council had given to county and district while they were drawing up their local plans . |
| 12 | Jean Campbell , in 1817 , was an uneducated deaf person without any speech who could only write the initials of her name in reverse order , eg. C.J. She was an unmarried woman who had three children by different men , one of whom at the time of her arrest in April 1817 had been living with her as a common law husband but who had a few days earlier taken off the ring that he had given to her and which she wore on her finger in the fashion of a married woman , and had left home . |
| 13 | The assembled guests well knew they were after bigger quarry than hare or stag and it the small town of Kirkmichael , Mar , on Tuesday 6 September , formally proclaimed James King of England , Scotland and , as tradition required , France , a poor return for all the help the Bourbons had given to the Jacobite cause . |
| 14 | It being the 30th October , His Majesty 's birthday , General Wade had given to each detachment an ox-feast and liquor ; six oxen were roasted whole , one at the head of each party . |
| 15 | On the very Sunday that the new church opened we looked in vain for the empty seats in St Luke 's : it seemed that God had given to us at the mother church a new group of people who had either moved into the area or who were to be converted and we saw the truth of the saying : ‘ Give and it will be given to you , pressed down and running over . ’ |
| 16 | The details recalled by Carol during the regression ( and which she continued to remember afterwards ) tallied precisely with those she had given to the police on the night the rape had occurred . |
| 17 | When an army investigator went to interview Ronald Haeberle , the army photographer who had been with Charlie Company , Haeberle produced some horrific colour slides of the killings and said that he had included some of them in an illustrated talk about the war he had given to various clubs , teachers ' associations and youth groups . |
| 18 | It was decided that Joan should telephone Alexander Atkins at a number which he had given to Derek and which had been discovered to be that of the police station at Dysart . |
| 19 | From this it followed that whoever was archbishop of Canterbury inherited all the powers that Gregory had given to Augustine , just as the pope inherited all the powers that Christ had given to St Peter . |
| 20 | From this it followed that whoever was archbishop of Canterbury inherited all the powers that Gregory had given to Augustine , just as the pope inherited all the powers that Christ had given to St Peter . |
| 21 | Thus , Barker ( 1984 ) , in her study of the Moonies , gave a questionnaire similar to that which she had given to the Moonies to a group of people who were matched with the Moonies with respect to sex , age , and background . |
| 22 | But by the end of last year Mr Yanagitani had lost so much money that he was unable to honour the investment guarantees he had given to his clients . |
| 23 | He lived alone , and anonymously , in a one-room fiat on a soon to be condemned estate close to the Elephant and Castle , an address he had given to nobody , not even his employer . |
| 24 | The prominence he had given to instruction in science had evidently made matters worse . |
| 25 | The fifth matter of complaint , which goes partly to the intention of the appellants and to the difficulty they found themselves in before the judge was that their solicitor never explained these matters to the judge , that is to say the technical nature of the breach , the details of the two charges that had been made , and the advice that their solicitor himself had given to the appellants when they came to consult him . |
| 26 | He poured into the telephone a long and unintelligible narrative about Profumo 's villainy in relation to the unhappy answer he had given to Wigg about the army . |
| 27 | Fortunately those of my friends who knew me before were only amused by this foolish description and there was no general resentment of my peerage , which could properly have been attributed to many services that I had given to the government — of both colours . |
| 28 | 1–3–1859 The Convener read the following letter from Claud McFie Esquire with reference to a donation of £400 which he had given to the Aged and Infirm Ministers ' Fund and a like sum to the Supplementary Sustentation Fund and in reference to which he reserved power to demand the interest during his life ; that he was anxious to promote the prosperity of the new Church of Bowmore in Islay , and now desired to appropriate the interest of the latter sum for five years , for that charge , and on this being complied with he gave up for that period his claim for the interest of the former sum , viz £400 , to the Aged and Infirm Ministers ' Fund . |
| 29 | His seizure of the monastery of Cookham , which Aethelbald had given to Christ Church , Canterbury ( and the purloining from Canterbury of its Cookham charters c . |
| 30 | ‘ A document my father had given to her brother . |