Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] had give [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My parents had given me a little electric keyboard for my fourth birthday , and I quickly learnt to play the tunes in the manual . |
| 2 | For the first time Robbie found herself wishing her brothers had given her a less striking gift . |
| 3 | He looked at her and understood why her parents had given her the name . |
| 4 | The large oval locket that had been an eighteenth-birthday present from her aunt , a gold bracelet , a pair of drop earrings and — she breathed a sigh of relief — her mother 's clip were still in the sandalwood box her parents had given her . |
| 5 | She rarely smiled but this was not through a lack of good nature : her responsibilities had given her a serious expression . |
| 6 | Benedicta , Anne , and their companions had given her their affection and trust and she was about to throw it back in their faces . |
| 7 | But the desire and the longing in his eyes had given her strength , and he had moved to her at once , so that she had known , once and for all , that there could never be anything strained or awkward between them . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He believed if only his parents had given him more confidence and the right backing , he would have made a very good male model . |
| 10 | Though he spoke in Russian , the language that his parents had given him , he was from without the walls that bounded their experience . |
| 11 | The embarrassing reality was that Burrows had proved more wily than his pursuers had given him credit for , and had managed to give the S.O.U. the slip . |
| 12 | So low was Deems 's voice that his auditors had to give it close attention . |
| 13 | Seb entered the gipsy encampment warily , remembering the reception Boz and his friends had given him on an earlier visit . |
| 14 | After leaving school he had been unable to settle , had wandered from place to place and had eventually landed up in Borstal , where his crimes had given him a reputation for toughness and ruthlessness which he had felt compelled to live up to ( although at the same time hating it and himself ) . |