Example sentences of "had [be] give [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps he was awaiting the chance of revenge for the crack on the head that had been given him … |
| 2 | The bomb Simon Cormack had been carrying on his person was concealed in the broad leather belt he wore around his waist and which had been given him by his abductors to hold up the denim jeans they had also provided for him . |
| 3 | A Victorian jug on the mantelpiece had been given him by Louise one Christmas . |
| 4 | Could see how his father would have resembled Han when he was younger ; as if age had been given him and youth to Han . |
| 5 | Most youths and even small boys wore a strip of hide around their wrists or ankles : this had been given them with appropriate blessing to bring them success when they became warriors . |
| 6 | Europe 's political structure in 1880 had been given its shape by the Congress of Vienna , the wars of the middle decades of the century and the Congress of Berlin . |
| 7 | Elvis 's vanity had been given its full and well-quiffed head . |
| 8 | no I do n't like them at all he says , now my doctor had been given me this one |
| 9 | Then earlier this year the group received a reply from another prisoner at Shalla who had been given their letter to Bashir by mistake . |
| 10 | If the fans had been given their choice , Mel Machin , then at Manchester City , would have been offered the job . |
| 11 | The great man had stated that , apart from some very early examples , the towns had been given their defences by Hadrian ( c . |
| 12 | Those inside had been given their instructions . |
| 13 | The salutation seemed to open infinite possibilities , and expressed a recognition of his right to travel ; he felt welcomed , and also saw that he had been given something of inestimable value . |
| 14 | The hound had been given something of Sir Henry 's to smell so that it would pick up his scent and follow him . |
| 15 | The racegoers from the train were on the whole easily identifiable as they all seemed to have been issued with large red and white rosettes with Race Train passenger emblazoned on them in gold : and the rosettes proved not to be confined to those in the front half of the train because I came across Zak wearing one too , and he told me that everyone had been given one , the owners included , and where was mine ? |
| 16 | The press had been given nothing but ‘ blurry , distorted photographs culled from television shots of occasions in the past at which North happened to be present ’ ; at best , ABC News had shown ‘ pictures of the back of a man 's head that may or may not have been North 's as the man got into an Embassy car in Cyprus on the occasion of the homeward flight of one of the hostages ’ . |
| 17 | Since joining his local unit , however , he had been given nothing to do but monotonous night drilling in almost inaccessible fields with shovels or hurleys as substitute rifles , dire shortage of arms and ammunition having restricted the unit to only two sessions of real firing practice . |
| 18 | Eileen Riddrie had proudly shown it to her the previous week , as she had been given it that very day for her birthday . |
| 19 | He told her he had been given it by Uncle Joe who kept a café up Kilburn way . |
| 20 | I had been given his address by friends in Britain and now took a taxi to his flat , a couple of miles from the hotel but still in the older part of the city of Buda . |
| 21 | As he fielded questions at a press conference in his Yeovil constituency about his terms for a coalition in the event of a hung Parliament or whether Downing Street had been given his telephone number , the instrument that could receive the crucial call was being hunted down by aides . |
| 22 | His resolve had been to give himself up every evening to a period of deep meditation . |
| 23 | The students , both in this series of interviews , and in another pre-structured evaluation interview , said that the main advantage of the course in information retrieval had been to give them an overall , systematic view of scientific information flow , which helped them to understand how to look for the information they required : |
| 24 | Apparently there 'd been this girl , Spanish or Portuguese I think , and Ollie had been giving her private lessons at his flat , and he thought she fancied him , and he 'd had a couple of Special Brews at the time and thought she was just shy , and then he tried kissing her , and it 's the old , old , sordid story , is n't it ? |
| 25 | Ace had been giving her conflicting messages ever since the first time they 'd met again outside her bedroom door in France . |
| 26 | Presumably Mr Malik had been giving her tutorials . |
| 27 | It was absolutely delicious and a welcome change from the meat Marcus had been giving me lately . |
| 28 | The laughter had stopped a while ago and , ever since , Lydia 's imagination had been giving her a hard time . |
| 29 | She got a , I think she got a bit of a shock you know she actually probably thought she was better than she was and a lot of people had been giving her a lot of pats on the back and I tell you where half of that emanated from was down the corridor . |
| 30 | Pilger had been giving him a hard time . |