Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] had given " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The Adjutant was able to sound thankful where Charles had given the least impression of unwillingness . |
| 2 | Whereas his state visits to Washington , London or Bonn had given Ceauşescu enormous status even within Romania , his tireless travelling around the Third World helped to undermine respect for him at home . |
| 3 | It was the first order of its kind that Patrick had given , but both Mrs James and Sarah immediately moved towards the door . |
| 4 | It was divided into two parts , her own list of household requirements , and the list that Isabel had given to her , which read : |
| 5 | Franca was relieved that Alison had given up her guilty peepings and hintings and attempts at relevant conversation ; only now her calmness and at-homeness were proving equally maddening . |
| 6 | ‘ Oh , how kind ! ’ she exclaimed , and felt inordinately pleased that Ven had given a thought to her before he had gone away . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He took out the remaining hand-grenade that Frankie had given him in New Orleans and slipped that into his inside pocket . |
| 9 | From this it followed that whoever was archbishop of Canterbury inherited all the powers that Gregory had given to Augustine , just as the pope inherited all the powers that Christ had given to St Peter . |
| 10 | And I was reaching some conclusions about the choice that Gharr had given me . |
| 11 | Mademoiselle stared at the enormous thing as if she really could not believe her eyes , she gave a shriek even louder than Mary-Lou had given . |
| 12 | But whatever else was lost , the impetus that Winckelmann had given to Greek scholarship in Germany survived ; and if we wish to understand its subsequent history and the remarkable growth of German classical scholarship as a whole , we should not forget his formative contribution , even though much of the impending development can hardly be traced directly back to him . |
| 13 | Poindexter , although he had cautioned North not to ‘ talk in plain language ’ , confessed that he had never used the three-by-five cards covered with codes that North had given him ; he just carried them in his briefcase . |
| 14 | It was the tiny jade sculpture of Kuan Yin that DeVore had given Gesell only the week before . |
| 15 | Then I discovered that Frank had given his version , so it seemed to me that there were two laws in existence . |
| 16 | And locals who said that McSweeney had given birth to twins bounced Farrah up and down , never suspecting they were holding the most wanted baby in Britain . |
| 17 | I was uncomfortable talking about the poems and Rory 's papers ; the bag lost on the train coming back from Lochgair at the start of the year had stayed lost , and — stuck with just the memory of the half-finished stuff that Janice had given me originally — I 'd given up on any idea I 'd ever had of trying to rescue Uncle Rory 's name from artistic oblivion , or discovering some great revelation in the texts . |
| 18 | To that extent they ought to have wide circulation , except that they depend on the kind of painstaking preparation that Knussen had given them — the music sounded taught and nurtured rather than merely rehearsed . |
| 19 | The forged document , the so-called " Donation of Constantine " , which was drawn up before the mid-eighth century , when the papacy was anxious to use and control the Frankish leaders , claimed that Constantine had given his imperial palace of the Lateran and dominion over " the city of Rome and all the places , cities and provinces of Italy and the West " to Pope Sylvester , handing the pope his imperial insignia and symbols — the lance , sceptre , orb , imperial standards , purple-scarlet mantle , imperial pallium and tunic . |
| 20 | Cherry noted , as a most extraordinary circumstance , that Sewell had given a demonstration which actually lasted nearly 10 minutes ‘ which might be short and sweet : if it was intelligible , it was the first time ’ . |
| 21 | The press and public were excluded from the hearing , although Greene had given earlier assurances that the tape would be released after it had been edited in order to excise any classified information which might be disclosed inadvertently . |
| 22 | He was schooling a new st'lyan that Burun had given him . |
| 23 | Li told Maude that China had given " high acclaim " to recent " friendly gestures " by the UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher . |
| 24 | They found the picture of Jill that Sayeed had given me more than eighteen months before . |
| 25 | I told him that Jo had given me the cash , though I was suitably vague as to exactly how I recovered her lost property . |
| 26 | He did not fit the description of Jim Lancaster that Blanche had given him in the car that morning . |
| 27 | At the slow , jerking speed of city traffic at night , he drove toward the address that Ashdown had given him for the rendezvous . |
| 28 | In a vote on Aug. 15 the project had received the overwhelming support of the Folketing ( parliament ) , which had voted against a similar project in 1973 , although Sweden had given its approval at that time . |
| 29 | In any case , he was relieved to learn , on 22 August , that Eisenhower had given orders for the French 2nd Armoured Division , commanded by General Leclerc , to head for Paris . |
| 30 | From this it followed that whoever was archbishop of Canterbury inherited all the powers that Gregory had given to Augustine , just as the pope inherited all the powers that Christ had given to St Peter . |