Example sentences of "[noun sg] had given [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 In Copenhagen 's biggest selling daily newspaper Ekstra Bladet , Bartram claimed the Rangers ' boss had given players strict instructions intimidate the opposition .
2 15 Army Group had given instructions [ KP 153 ] to Eighth Army on 7 May that surrender can only be accepted of those forces in contact with Eighth Army .
3 Traditionally , war had given men opportunities to achieve honour through individual acts of valour and courage .
4 The judge was told that the father had given undertakings ( which the judge recited in the course of his judgment ) that , if the court ordered the child to be returned to Canada , he would not attempt to remove him from the care of the mother without an order of the Canadian court ; that he would not support or initiate any contempt of court or criminal proceedings arising from the mother 's removal of the child , and would co-operate in having an early hearing of the proceedings in Ontario .
5 It was almost certain that the man had given orders to that effect before he came here at Gesell 's summons .
6 The IMF also announced that the government had given assurances that it would resume payments , suspended for two years , on its US$43,000 million commercial debt , as a condition for talks to proceed on June 7 with its 224 commercial creditor banks .
7 Reports said that the government had given assurances that there would be no retrenchment in the first year of privatization and that workers would be entitled to buy up to 10 per cent of the shareholding in their factories .
8 In Ajdabiya a young man , Wunis Abdulhadi , the brother of the lawyer Abdulsalam Abdulhadi , pointed out that The Financial Times had already announced the formation of Libyan-financed joint enterprises and that the government had given months ago ; he concluded there was no point in discussing the issue .
9 be it nineteen eighty five or nineteen eighty six , it may not matter , did you know previous to that in February nineteen eighty seven , he as chairman had given instructions that this brochure should be withdrawn , did you know that ?
10 Whereas the Supplementary Benefits Scheme had given grants to people to cover essential items , such as cooking utensils , the Fund replaced this with loans .
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