Example sentences of "[conj] [conj] [pers pn] had given " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the first time she had been left on her own and she had managed quite well except that she had given Mrs Prichard , the colliery manager 's wife , short change by mistake . |
| 2 | Since she was sixteen she had experienced life , and none of it had been good , except that she had given birth to a daughter and also that she had found out what love was , but had experienced the painful futility of it . |
| 3 | His anger was real but so continuously felt that once he had given it adequate ( in his own mind ) expression , it ceased to modify his actions . |
| 4 | If she will be earning , that will eat into her profits , but she is likely to be more contented than if she had given up her job . |
| 5 | I sent back a tirade of bitter invective , written during a long , lonely evening when Richard was dining in college : did she think that because I had given up working for my degree I was necessarily isolated from intelligent thought ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She watched very carefully and did exactly as he did except that when he had given two low bows she did ‘ two quick bobs ’ . |
| 8 | The advocates of " Unity " argued , however , that a considerable change had come over the Communist Party and that it had given up its " social fascist " accusations . |
| 9 | Four weeks later the partners returned to see Mr Barnes with the news that BCCI chief executive Swaleh Naqvi had admitted that false documentation had been prepared ‘ to deceive the auditors ’ , and that he had given information about loans to BCCI shareholders secured on CCAH shares . |
| 10 | What had really confused everyone was the fact that Kemp always carried a hip-flask of brandy in the car 's glove compartment , and that he had given his wife — trapped by the legs beside him — several sips from this flask before the ambulance arrived ; and had even drunk from it himself ! |
| 11 | In a series of radio interviews on May 8 Annie Murphy revealed that she and Casey had embarked on a love affair in Ireland in 1973 and that she had given birth to his child two years later . |
| 12 | The previous day the free speech people had drawn an acceptable cartoon which Eliot had agreed to publish and so they had given up going to the office . |
| 13 | In addition their father had told them that he wanted to speak to them in his study afterwards , and although he had given no indication what chastisement he planned , they knew from the severity of his expression that he was angrier than they had ever seen him before . |
| 14 | Not a word had she received from Pilade 's father as to his son 's welfare all this long time and if she had given him cause , as he might argue , to abandon her she had given him no such leave to forget his child . |
| 15 | In a move underlining the prevailing mood of uncertainty , the Supreme Soviet voted to delay the actual exchange of ratification documents with the USA until agreement had been reached with other nuclear republics of the Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ) , namely Byelarus , Kazakhstan and Ukraine , on the status of all former Soviet nuclear forces [ see p. 38890 ] , and until they had given their formal endorsement under the START Lisbon protocol [ see p. 38937 ] . |
| 16 | He seemed full of beans though , and after he had given me a rundown on the life cycle of the polyp , three nurses wheeled me across the corridor and into another room . |
| 17 | To be honest , it looked as though she had given up on being a woman . |
| 18 | He made it sound as though she had given his sermon to the messenger boy . |