Example sentences of "[pron] had give [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Maureen said : ‘ I did n't think about them again until that psychic woman asked for them , but it was only after I had given them to her I realized they were n't his at all . |
2 | I had given them to Menna when he first left to take up his post . |
3 | The Supreme Court , in a seven to one vote on Sept. 10 , declined to suspend the impeachment proceedings but gave Collor until Sept 22 to prepare his defence before the Chamber of Deputies , which had given him until Sept. 15 to address it . |
4 | How , then , could the government explain why he came to be in possession of a genuine birth certificate for a non-existent person without embarrassing the CIA , which had given it to him in the first place ? |
5 | She had given it with affection , but would have been forced — by custom , by law , and by John-William 's iron will — to give it anyway . |
6 | Had n't he understood that she had given herself to him for the only reason that made any sense to her . |
7 | She had to give it at least one more try . |
8 | I was a war baby and a shame to my birth-dead mother who had given herself to the last-time-leave blandishments of my faceless father . |
9 | If the Council 's Temporary Press Officer , who had been appointed solely to deal with the alleged child abuse controversy , had been given such confidential information , she said , they wanted to know who had given it to him . |
10 | I found it folded in a corner , still heavy with the perfume of the Sheikha who had given it to me . |
11 | Well , you had to give it to the kid for determination . |
12 | Christine paused most meaningfully … ‘ she said as you had given it to her , sir . |
13 | They 'll say ah , if you have stable off , we had to give it to them you see . |
14 | Accordingly , at the time of the accident the deceased was a lawful visitor on the premises , since the brewery had not given the deceased any indication that the permission they had given him to be on the premises expired at 10.30 p.m . |
15 | He retained an affection for Paris and a gratitude for the intellectual advantages that it had given him to which he later referred as pope . |
16 | Now the name was not a famous one , the cloth merchant having lived his life in the comparative obscurity common to most of us , and my patient had never before visited that part of the country — and yet the details he unearthed coincided perfectly with the facts he had given me during his regression . |
17 | Before they left , Gallardo shook Valenzuela 's hand and thanked him for the cigarettes he had given him in captivity . |
18 | Because er , he he he had given them of of how he had become a Christian , he had become a minister of Jesus Christ and so on , he says , for this reason I suffer these things , but I am not ashamed , for I know whom I have believed . |
19 | Several women friends of Waddell said that he had given them within days of the murder large sums of money ; and a barman to whom Waddell had given £1000 for safe keeping said Waddell had told him he had won a packet on the horses . |
20 | And what he was saying seemed to be in direct conflict to the hurtful reasons for their marriage he had given her on the drawbridge yesterday . |
21 | He snatched his furniture from the house and dumped it on a tip , then took the car which he had given her as a present away for scrap . |
22 | She recalled the swift bruising kiss he had given her in the restaurant . |
23 | Not a gentle kiss , nor yet as punishing as the last one he had given her in her room , but it was urgent and demanding and was all the encouragement she needed . |
24 | Remembering the kiss he had given her after breakfast it seemed as if their relationship might at long last have changed . |
25 | He had given it to his youngest daughter , Margaret , when she trained as a nurse at Benedict 's just after the last World War . |
26 | All that he had to give her with his mind and body was sucked out of him into her . |
27 | ‘ And he did n't know what had given it to you … ’ |