Example sentences of "had been give [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps he was awaiting the chance of revenge for the crack on the head that had been given him … |
| 2 | The bomb Simon Cormack had been carrying on his person was concealed in the broad leather belt he wore around his waist and which had been given him by his abductors to hold up the denim jeans they had also provided for him . |
| 3 | A Victorian jug on the mantelpiece had been given him by Louise one Christmas . |
| 4 | Could see how his father would have resembled Han when he was younger ; as if age had been given him and youth to Han . |
| 5 | Most youths and even small boys wore a strip of hide around their wrists or ankles : this had been given them with appropriate blessing to bring them success when they became warriors . |
| 6 | no I do n't like them at all he says , now my doctor had been given me this one |
| 7 | Eileen Riddrie had proudly shown it to her the previous week , as she had been given it that very day for her birthday . |
| 8 | He told her he had been given it by Uncle Joe who kept a café up Kilburn way . |
| 9 | The students , both in this series of interviews , and in another pre-structured evaluation interview , said that the main advantage of the course in information retrieval had been to give them an overall , systematic view of scientific information flow , which helped them to understand how to look for the information they required : |
| 10 | It was absolutely delicious and a welcome change from the meat Marcus had been giving me lately . |
| 11 | The laughter had stopped a while ago and , ever since , Lydia 's imagination had been giving her a hard time . |
| 12 | She got a , I think she got a bit of a shock you know she actually probably thought she was better than she was and a lot of people had been giving her a lot of pats on the back and I tell you where half of that emanated from was down the corridor . |
| 13 | Pilger had been giving him a hard time . |
| 14 | He sat on a huge leather chair with a sigh of relief and it was clear to Hari that his leg had been giving him trouble . |
| 15 | He hoped that I could undertake something in that line , especially in relation to Italy : for I had been giving him my impressions of the visit to Rome , which included encountering at close quarters , Mussolini , Count Ciano , and Edda his wife , and the by comparison rather puny Neville Chamberlain . |
| 16 | Ven swiftly reassured her , and — even while it was dawning on her how he was accepting her ‘ no ’ without question when she had been giving him a ‘ yes , yes , yes ’ for the past five minutes , he was reaching for her wrap . |
| 17 | Mr Goldring said the accused had been giving him his grandmother 's tablets . |
| 18 | It was the directions that I had been giving them that I now began to consider . |
| 19 | He argued he had been giving them a practical demonstration of his work as a ‘ psycho-sexual ’ counsellor and doctor . |
| 20 | Which meant that he had been giving it considerable quiet thought . |