Example sentences of "he had [adv] given [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He glanced towards Grégoire , knowing that happiness sprang from him ; he had brought Edouard love ; he had also given back to him a sense of purpose . |
| 2 | His thick hair was greying but he had not given up on red baseball shoes , sleeveless T-shirts or what he called his ‘ cosmopolitan Lancashire accent , half scouse , half Lancashire ’ . |
| 3 | He had not given up hope of reshaping it along the lines he had already supported in the abortive Fouchet Plan . |
| 4 | He had not given in — nor had the Commission — as far as the text itself was concerned , but the ‘ Explanatory Note ’ interpreted the text in favour of papal authority . |
| 5 | ‘ He had just given up smoking , ’ she said . |
| 6 | It seemed he had just given up and was letting her go graciously and tenderly . |
| 7 | And he had nearly given up . |
| 8 | He did n't make it to the course on the next day , was sacked , and always maintained that if he had n't given up the drink for those ten days or so and ‘ dried out ’ he would not have got so drunk , would have been on the course at the appointed time , would not have lost his job , and would have have carried for yet another Open Champion . |
| 9 | When she threw a look over her shoulder , however , he had n't given up at all , but was prowling towards her with a bemused smile on his face . |
| 10 | Brucie should have asked his old mucker why he had apparently given up his comedy career to become a fulltime golfer , but he seemed more interested in sticking to what appeared to be a well-prepared script . |
| 11 | Brucie should have asked his old mucker why he had apparently given up his comedy career to become a full-time golfer , but he seemed more interested in sticking to what appeared to be a well-prepared script . |
| 12 | Brucie should have asked his old mucker why he had apparently given up his comedy career to become a full-time golfer , but he seemed more interested in sticking to what appeared to be a well-prepared script . |
| 13 | He had almost given up hope of meeting Liza on the beach and was considering whether he would , after all , call at Four Winds , despite Eleanor 's warnings , when , to his incredulous delight , on the fifth day of his visit , he saw a different figure scrambling down the cliff followed by a little girl . |
| 14 | He had almost given up testing the limits . |