Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] had given " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . ’ |
| 32 | He said to me that God had given him a chance to expiate his past life , and that was what he was going to do . |
| 33 | He tells how the Holy Spirit fell on Cornelius , and points out that God had given Cornelius the same gift as the Jewish believers . |
| 34 | " She was aware that God had given her much ; physical strength and mental strength . |
| 35 | It took a long talk from one of the Sisters of Charity to make him realise that God had given him the gift of his voice and he was to use his gift with religion to help these people . |
| 36 | Tessa sat at Bob 's desk in the empty department all afternoon , newspaper files stacked in front of her , trying intermittently to finish the job that Dyson had given her . |
| 37 | The cat had probably been in the vestry and undone the parcel they were in , though it was just as likely that Sophia had given her one to play with . |
| 38 | On July 12 Guechi claimed that Madani had given him a mandate to lead the FIS . |
| 39 | The Washington Post of Sept. 28 reported that Iraq had given all citizens of Kuwait until Oct. 1 to apply for Iraqi citizenship . |
| 40 | In return , I gave him one of twelve tiny mouth-organs that Hohner had given me . |
| 41 | The yellow silk square that Steve had given him was in his back pocket ; eight boxes of buckshot in each saddlebag ; binoculars in his combat jacket ; two rolls of inch-wide parcel tape ; fifty feet of light line ; steel hammer and hall a dozen steel spikes ; spare combat jacket and two pairs of jungle trousers ; for night work , black cotton roll-neck , black tracksuit bottoms and black cotton gloves ; slacks and a light jumper for Mariana . |
| 42 | In my review of the 3500 head , it was mentioned that Hartke had given the amp a no-nonsense look , and I would re-iterate that opinion here . |
| 43 | But she had n't forgotten the kiss that Julius had given her . |
| 44 | She was so near to tears that her only outlet was to tell the whole sorry tale , including the news that Joanna had given her the day before . |
| 45 | Although Woodie had given this explanation pretty often , he was surprised to have to make it to a child of six . |
| 46 | Wigg 's resentment against Profumo related to some answer that Profumo had given in 1962 to a question about British troops overseas , which to Wigg 's unbendable mind was an untruth . |
| 47 | Bernice tried to recall the initial lessons that Cheryl had given her , soon after the TARDIS had landed on Belial . |
| 48 | However , in relation to an experiment with the Debendox-related drug , the tribunal found proved that McBride had given conflicting evidence about its details to two court cases involving claims against a drug company . |
| 49 | For a moment Nutty was afraid that he knew that Hoomey had given his secret away ; but he was not apathetic anymore . |
| 50 | Jaguar retreated 32p to 653p with stories flowing that Ford had given up its pursuit and planned to buy 50 per cent of the Swedish Saab group . |
| 51 | The report claimed that Rabin had given Hod Hahanit permission to export military expertise and defence equipment in 1986 . |
| 52 | During the rebellion both Rent and Norfolk had given Mortimer grounds for doubting their loyalty . |
| 53 | Martha had taken a stand and Will had given way . |
| 54 | And Horsley had given money to miners ' families during the 1984–5 strike . |
| 55 | Swan asked Amaranth if Harvey had given her any information about the new motorway . |
| 56 | The fire crew had to cut free the man with his legs trapped , after Rachel and Nina had set up an intravenous infusion and David had given him a pethidine injection to help control his pain . |
| 57 | When most of the dancers had set off for home , and Lucy had given Josie reason to assume that she 'd done the same , she sat in one of the empty offices for a while and then returned to the wardrobe department . |
| 58 | It is not surprising either to find that English visitors were hostile ; the notable point is that their real venom was unleashed not in the period before 1560 , when England and Scotland were nourishing their long-standing enmity , but afterwards , when they were officially allies , and particularly once the unthinkable and shameful had happened , and Scotland had given England a king , in the person of James VI in 1603 . |
| 59 | By the end of the evening both she and Reggie had given us their seal of approval . |
| 60 | ‘ But you are thinking that it would be a dreadful irony if Fergus had given his soul into the captivity of the Prison of Hostages , only to have his quest abandoned ? ’ |