Example sentences of "[coord] [subord] [pers pn] had given " in BNC.
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| 1 | The previous day the free speech people had drawn an acceptable cartoon which Eliot had agreed to publish and so they had given up going to the office . |
| 2 | In addition their father had told them that he wanted to speak to them in his study afterwards , and although he had given no indication what chastisement he planned , they knew from the severity of his expression that he was angrier than they had ever seen him before . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In a move underlining the prevailing mood of uncertainty , the Supreme Soviet voted to delay the actual exchange of ratification documents with the USA until agreement had been reached with other nuclear republics of the Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ) , namely Byelarus , Kazakhstan and Ukraine , on the status of all former Soviet nuclear forces [ see p. 38890 ] , and until they had given their formal endorsement under the START Lisbon protocol [ see p. 38937 ] . |
| 5 | He seemed full of beans though , and after he had given me a rundown on the life cycle of the polyp , three nurses wheeled me across the corridor and into another room . |