Example sentences of "had [adv] given a " in BNC.
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| 1 | To the knighthood , or chivalry , of the Middle Ages war had long given a sense of purpose . |
| 2 | It was true : she had not given a thought to Gazzer . |
| 3 | She had taken it all for granted for so long , her creature comforts had been assured and she had not given a moment 's thought to how they were provided . |
| 4 | However , the ANC expressed grave concern that the government had not given a timetable beyond step two of their plan . |
| 5 | But whatever the reason , whether it was that everyone had been so busy reassuring everyone that no one had bothered to talk to the crematorium , whether they had got the time wrong , or whether the vicar had simply had a brainstorm , he now , you could tell , was dimly aware that he had not given an exemplary performance . |
| 6 | ‘ I think that you had better go , ’ Sally-Anne said — and she remembered with pride that she had not given an inch , had shown no emotion as her life had crumbled around her . |
| 7 | ( I must tell here the story of a charming American lady who approached me when I had just given a talk on regression therapy . |
| 8 | Ben and I had just given a recital in Vienna . |
| 9 | ‘ Love apples , ’ she had said to Mark , and the words ‘ love apple ’ had somehow given a name to the district , strange and different as it was from the rest of the parish which lay over the other side of the main road , far from the railway line . |
| 10 | I had once given a few lessons to a nun at a convent not far from where I lived , so that I was slightly known there . |
| 11 | The sovereign people had given de Gaulle a vote of confidence , but they had also given a mandate to parties which opposed him . |
| 12 | According to Russian press reports , Krayushkin had also given an Austrian diplomat a list of more than 200 Austrian prisoners . |
| 13 | Doone gave me a sorrowful stare , but I had n't given a thought to his wanting secrecy . |
| 14 | She had had a wickedly subtle conversation with him , a very enquiring one , but he had n't given a thing away . |
| 15 | Her heart sank ; she had been so intent on trying to score off him that she had n't given a thought to what her careless words could do to the understanding that had seemed to be developing between them . |
| 16 | And as she pushed open the forest-green doors of Woodline Design she realised with surprise that she had n't given a thought to Max for some considerable time . |
| 17 | She had n't given a thought to her lack of coif ; her mind was too occupied with trying to think of an excuse for remaining in her gown , and failing dismally . |
| 18 | And the State Department said sure , you know , cos they did n't have a deadline , the president had n't given a deadline . |
| 19 | The French plait she wore was fine for everyday , but she had n't given a thought to the more social occasions . |
| 20 | The accused , a 40-year-old police officer with a wife and a recently discarded mistress , claimed that the woman in question , to whom he had casually given a lift , offered him sex in return . |
| 21 | Apart from the contributions they both made to raising the general temperature along the international border in the months leading up to the Iraqi onslaught in September 1980 , the first blow appears to have been struck in the same month by Baghdad with a broadcast announcement of the death of Ayatollah Khomeini.i The Iraqis had previously given a trial outing to a line of attack which underwent persistent repetition as the war proceeded . |
| 22 | Bethel spoke as a member of the Working Party , not as Chairman of the CDP , though he underlined that Sir Denis Rooke had recently given an undertaking that the CDP would be consulted . |
| 23 | This fellow , who must be the only , or almost the only , surviving person outside Japan who has been the target of a nuclear bomb , and who knows what it 's like for real ( as opposed to the criminally bone-headed fantasising about nuclear war indulged in by our sillier soldiers and politicians ) , was not only matter-of-fact about it all , as though it was the sort of thing that might have happened to anyone , but he actually admitted that he had never given a thought to the possibility that he might be at risk as a result of the radiation he undoubtedly suffered at the time until recent weeks when various busybodies brought the matter to his attention . |