Example sentences of "had give [adv] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The British General Strike of 1926 had given both Germany and Poland a new sense of the gains that might be made through co-operation , and while they explored this unexpected windfall , the effects of the Polish currency reform were hidden .
2 If the Government had given away Hampshire Bus and the assets had then been sold for £2 , 1 million , the profit would have been the same to the buyer , and the loss to the public purse in real terms would have been no less .
3 Steel-Maitland wrote to The Times in 1913 to accuse the Liberals of corrupt practices at the Wick Burghs by-election , and Sanders noted that at Taunton they had given away half-crowns wrapped in Liberal leaflets ; both contests went against the trend , so there may be some truth in the allegations .
4 I had given up hope of a reply when , after two months and three days , a letter came which began , ‘ We find your proposals perfectly feasible … ’ .
5 ‘ But it made a difficult situation impossible , caused distress to her and her husband and sounded the death knell on the marriage which until then , although in difficulties , neither of them had given up hope of saving . ’
6 We had given up hope , then suddenly there you were , a little stranger … ’
7 ‘ You can trust us to wake up every day remembering the people we saw in the bus trips , the people we saw in the town meetings , the people we touched at the rallies , the people who had never voted before , the people who had n't voted in 20 years , the people who 'd never voted for a Democrat , the people who had given up hope , all of them together saying we want our future back .
8 ‘ You can trust us to wake up every day remembering the people we saw in the bus trips , the people we touched at the rallies , the people who had never voted before , the people who had n't voted in 20 years , the people who 'd never voted for a Democrat , the people who had given up hope , all of them saying we want our future back . ’
9 She said : ‘ We had given up hope and by the time the precinct opened again we had all gone home . ’
10 One afternoon , after she had given up hope , stirring aïoli on the doorstep , Frederica heard the crunch of wheels on stones and saw the motorbike winding down the cliff with its two insect-heads swaying in harmony above it .
11 Finally , when many had given up hope and the liner was nearing Europe , the Belgian government announced that it would admit 200 of the passengers .
12 Mrs Burrows nursed Betty through a dangerous illness when the doctor had given up hope on her .
13 Joshua Morris had given up hope of ever reaching the promised land .
14 If anyone had given up hope in life , it was I. ’
15 However , this doe snot apply so much to our other son , Robert , who is a private music teacher in Glasgow , so we see quite a lot of him and his wife and their baby son , who arrived just over a year ago , when we had given up hope of any more grandchildren .
16 Two years earlier Jones had given up work as a hod carrier when Wimbledon signed him from Wealdstone for £10,000 .
17 I thought you had given up drawing-rooms entirely . ’
18 The KPNLF , which launched an attack on Saturday , four days after the withdrawal of Vietnamese troops , had given up attempts to occupy the town of Svay Cheak and the capital of Banteay Meanchey province , Sisophon .
19 Within a month he had given up frustration and made his Christmas presents instead .
20 Leonard had given up architecture to help with the business .
21 In a move reportedly designed to persuade the Soviet Union to abandon its rail-mounted mobile intercontinental missile system , the SS-24 , Bush said that the USA had given up plans to develop mobile versions of the MX and Midgetman missiles and that a programme to build the short-range attack missile ( SRAM ) had also been cancelled .
22 She had given up meat .
23 He was staying there since giving up his flat at around the same time he had given up Crystal Daly .
24 When he began writing again , he had given up realism for allegory about the conflict between , among other things , science and religion .
25 Back at home with their baby he was quick to be the one to change the nappies and administer the bottle feed once Liddie had given up breastfeeding .
26 He had given up years ago the delusion that all men were homosexual at heart , and that it was just a question of finding the key to unlock their repressed desires .
27 By recording body temperatures throughout the day of groups of well-adjusted shiftworkers , intolerant shiftworkers , and day-workers who had given up shiftwork because they could not tolerate it , Reinberg has demonstrated that it is indeed the best-adjusted group whose circadian rhythm was most immutable .
28 Father had given up tobacco and alcohol to send me £2 15s ( Pounds 2.75 ) a week to make ends meet .
29 He backed it not just because he was convinced by Rueff and his advisers that it would reduce inflation and revitalize the economy through the stimulus of competition , but because he was attracted by its theatrical elements — the symbolism of a new franc to mark a new political order , the grand gesture of carrying out commitments to Europe that the Fourth Republic had given up hopes of honouring , the rhetoric of a coherent plan of renovation as opposed to a collection of policies .
30 Prior to Haibara 's testimony , Noboru Takeshita had given further evidence to the Diet concerning his role in the affair .
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