Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] had given " in BNC.
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| 1 | The exercise had made the public familiar with the coalition and had given the local branches of the three parties experience in working together for a common purpose . |
| 2 | Spain was still deeply divided by the war and the choice of its commemorative dates ( such as " Victory Day " , or 18 July ) for the announcement of important political decisions was a tactic frequently used by Franco , reminding people that it was the outcome of the war that had given him the power to alter the country 's course as he thought fit . |
| 3 | Here , through the space of a breath or two , she could live for a moment in the rapturous evening when she and Lal had dressed for the Hunt Ball : the evening that had given her Andrew . |
| 4 | It had been Mme Guérigny 's and Montaine 's intimacy with the creatures of the forest that had given them the idea of hiding their deserter in the cave . |
| 5 | A male friend had tried to dissuade Hale from seeking a much needed job and had given her a thousand dollars to buy ‘ the most beautiful dress in New York ’ , telling her that what she needed was to find a rich husband . |
| 6 | Then she took me to the centre by saying that she had asked my husband and had given permission . |
| 7 | One had tried using a hand-held scanner for the job but had given up because it made too many mistakes . |
| 8 | There was much wrath that he had been meaninglessly sacrificed and a Test career that had given so much pleasure needlessly brought to a premature end . |
| 9 | The architect had sited the house on the slope of a hill commanding a great variety of scenery and had given each bedroom its own special view . |
| 10 | During the later Middle Ages the turnover of names had been rapid , but afterwards an important group of middling farmers had put down roots in the parish and had given the community a sense of cohesiveness and continuity . |
| 11 | Full of interest and packed with information and statistics , it was a great performance , but the Dean frankly acknowledged that credit for it was due to Charles Gorham who had prepared the paper and had given it to him to read . |
| 12 | The negotiations , which had reached their seventh round and had given rise to considerable optimism , centred on the creation of internationally managed reception centres in Vietnam . |
| 13 | What had been intended as a warning shot across the government 's bows has sunk a government that had given Poland a year of political continuity , maintained budgetary austerity against populist opposition and taken the first steps on two essential reforms that now go into limbo . |
| 14 | Anyway , I had built her up at the front end so that she was standing with her fore feet on a half door and had given her a strong oily purgative . |
| 15 | This increased the ease with which the police could prosecute prostitutes , as they no longer required the assistance of an ‘ offended ’ member of the public , despite the fact that it was the supposed ‘ public nuisance ’ of street prostitution that had given rise to the need for legislation . |
| 16 | This had asserted American interest in the Middle East and had given pledges of support to those states which felt threatened by communism . |
| 17 | Nigel had been a very heavy smoker but had given it up eight years earlier , as had I. |
| 18 | And then she remembered why she was there , because the Mahon virus had been joined with humanity , had been introduced into the genes as the same batch of fluid that had given life to Piphros . |
| 19 | He betrayed no feelings to anyone in the country that had given him asylum . |
| 20 | Pamela had n't been to the tiny next-door island for years but she remembered its wild , deserted beaches , its spectacular rocky promontories , the surprising wheat fields among the rocky landscape that had given the island its name . |
| 21 | Creggan said nothing but stared over the grey rolling sea that had given the eagle whom he loved most in the world her name . |
| 22 | Lloyd George discovered in 1919 , as Law had done in 1914 , that a Unionist party that had given its total commitment to a cause would not be fobbed off with a compromise . |