Example sentences of "had given " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was quite frank about the whole thing , told us H. had given him a fiver to turn up , asked Madge if she wanted to go through with it , which of course she did n't . |
| 2 | Tried working through the Alekhine Paz had given me , but even chess filled me with disgust . |
| 3 | I had thought at the time , wrote Goldberg , turning the page , wiping his brow , taking a sip of orange juice from the glass on the desk beside him , dreaming for a moment of the cigarettes he had given up two years earlier , I had thought , he wrote , that an edited version of the text , with only those comments directly concerned with the Big Glass included , would serve you best . |
| 4 | Why we feel comfortable with such art , however grotesque , whereas the greatest art always leaves us a little bit uncomfortable , as though the earth we stood on had given a sudden lurch . |
| 5 | He had given Arabella Buckley a quick glance then . |
| 6 | During the final year of office of the previous Director , Ralph Youngman , Charles had given a series of public lectures at the school on Canaletto . |
| 7 | I passed over the cheque my landlord had given me . |
| 8 | Suddenly it struck me just how much protection my past had given me , particularly the university lecturer bit of it . |
| 9 | She felt cornered , counted out by this cool precision , fighting for something which had given every sign of gracious flowering … from time to time . |
| 10 | Cameron pretended not to see young Donald till he was close beside him , then turned in mock surprise and said to him , ‘ Well well , Donald — we had given you up . |
| 11 | She remembered the evening because his parents had given him an awful sweater for his birthday and between comedy programmes on the television she and Alan thought up alternative uses for an awful sweater . |
| 12 | With Gibbons , he wrote , oak had given way to limewood and earthbound solidity to feats of impossible lightness . |
| 13 | The remark could only be made because Ashton had given so much thought to how the music could be given shape in dance . |
| 14 | It had given me a world of wonder and time to draw it all in . |
| 15 | To remove the distinction completely would seem to undermine the insights that had given force to Bakhtin 's earlier criticism . |
| 16 | Mr Whitty told delegates the NEC had given them ‘ adequate time to look at the reviews ’ . |
| 17 | as if 24-17 and derisive chants of ‘ Easy , easy ’ were not bad enough , this humiliation was against a side who have made a wretched start to the season — a week earlier Pontypool had given them a 35-6 going-over — and were short of at least half-a-dozen first-choice players . |
| 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 | It was also noted that Wolfgang Vogel , the lawyer to whom Mr Honecker had given the task of solving the refugee problem , had had his mandate drastically cut back . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He demanded a refund from the first agents but they refused , arguing that because he had given them his credit card number he had entered into a contract . |
| 22 | Jaguar retreated 32p to 653p with stories flowing that Ford had given up its pursuit and planned to buy 50 per cent of the Swedish Saab group . |
| 23 | Yes , after we had given up all intention of going there , we have arrived . |
| 24 | Richard Rampton QC , who is defending Lord Aldington 's libel action against historian Count Nikolai Tolstoy and property developer Nigel Watts , suggested that the peer had given false evidence because it was ‘ essential ’ to his case that he was not in Austria on 23 , 24 and 25 May . |
| 25 | The old man was delighted with the packet of cigarettes Sid had given him in exchange for the cider . |
| 26 | I was still chewing on the chunk of meat Taff had given me . |
| 27 | He had given up his three stripes to join the Commandos and was now the father of two children , a boy and a girl , his wife living with her parents in Perth . |
| 28 | In the voting for the Constituent Assembly during the winter of 191 7 his vote , together with that of many thousands of other ex-front soldiers and their wives and neighbours , had given the Bolsheviks healthy rural support . |
| 29 | Since 1961 ( to be precise , since Selwyn Lloyd 's ‘ pay pause ’ that summer ) British people had given sustaining the economy the priority over foreign affairs among their concerns . |
| 30 | As has been seen , the progress of Thatcherism had been erratic , even hesitant , since 1979 , though the Falklands victory had given the record of the past four years a spurious consistency . |