Example sentences of "but [pron] had give [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I used to follow a bit but I had to give it up . |
| 2 | You were never entirely safe from prying fingers in Chinatown , but I had to give it my best shot . |
| 3 | But she had given him neither an address nor a telephone number ; and the complexities of finding either had posed rather too much of a problem on a transatlantic line . |
| 4 | If he failed to come up with explanations to put everything right then , and then only , would he have to face the consequences himself , for it was clear now that she would have to leave — disengage herself from him , as Marc had so succinctly put it — but she had given her word and she would wait until the whole matter could be discussed openly . |
| 5 | But she had given it little thought during this time with Fernando . |
| 6 | Then er on a Saturdays our slaughterhouse was , our slaughterhouse was still open up the street then and we used to perhaps kill twelve , fourteen pigs for private people , but they had to give their ration up , six months ' or twelve months ' ration up to have these pigs . |
| 7 | But they had given him photographs . |
| 8 | But he had given it all up and returned to the business world as a marketing executive . |
| 9 | André was far too exuberant to be shattered by something like that , but it had given her ego a kick . |
| 10 | Not that our sort is given to bragging in any case , but it had given my dad — a branch manager for one of the High Street banks — a certain quiet satisfaction to be able to let his staff know that his son was ‘ going up ’ to Oxford . |