Example sentences of "he had given " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had thought at the time , wrote Goldberg , turning the page , wiping his brow , taking a sip of orange juice from the glass on the desk beside him , dreaming for a moment of the cigarettes he had given up two years earlier , I had thought , he wrote , that an edited version of the text , with only those comments directly concerned with the Big Glass included , would serve you best . |
| 2 | He had given Arabella Buckley a quick glance then . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He had given up his three stripes to join the Commandos and was now the father of two children , a boy and a girl , his wife living with her parents in Perth . |
| 5 | He had given her that household , a little society , warming itself in its own glow of virtue , insulating itself from the big bad world ; but within its own limits it had been open and supportive . |
| 6 | He had given her an egg ; an orange egg about four inches long and made , of all things , of soap . |
| 7 | For he had given her gifts beyond dreaming . |
| 8 | He had given her no help throughout the night but it did not lessen her love . |
| 9 | In his 1965 article , ‘ Aesthetic of Hunger ’ , enormously influential on Third World cinema and art , Glauber felt he had given ‘ the measure of my rational understanding of poverty ’ . |
| 10 | A copy of a paper he had given to the British Association on ‘ The car of the future ’ led to his being summoned to Detroit , and to a commission to design and build it . |
| 11 | He felt that he had given enough . |
| 12 | He had given everything he had . |
| 13 | Before they left , Gallardo shook Valenzuela 's hand and thanked him for the cigarettes he had given him in captivity . |
| 14 | When he began writing again , he had given up realism for allegory about the conflict between , among other things , science and religion . |
| 15 | ‘ I did n't know her then , ’ he said , repressively , uneasily conscious that he had given Francesca no thought at all that day and did n't much want to think about her now . |
| 16 | IN his last letter to Ashcroft Noble , Edward tried to express his thanks to the dying man for the new direction he had given to his life : |
| 17 | On that third morning , though , it had been Haynes who led out the home team , since Richards was in the press box breathing fire at Daily Express journalist James Lawton who had asked him for an explanation of the V-sign he had given to his own crowd . |
| 18 | He loved to tell stories of how he had given advice , how it had been disregarded , and how he had been proved right . |
| 19 | He had given Gina a column to take in to his paper while he was away . |
| 20 | Doyle smiled , with sneering triumph , thinking he had given up . |
| 21 | After he had given up the slave trade and was already hoping to be ordained , he was appointed tide-surveyor in the port of Liverpool with duties that included the inspection of incoming vessels . |
| 22 | An eccentric Welsh atheist , Dr William Price , cremated the body of his illegitimate infant , to whom he had given the name Jesus . |
| 23 | However , David Lloyd George decided that a majority of one was not sufficient , even though he had given an undertaking to implement the majority report . |
| 24 | Yes , that was the card he had given to old Jackdaw to post but he really did n't want all this aggravation , he was happy the way he was . |
| 25 | For the sake of a quiet life he had given in to an unreasonable request and only now did he fully realize what it meant . |
| 26 | The bastard knew by now that he had given the game away . |
| 27 | Already he had given too much away . |
| 28 | Just before leaving France in 1940 he had given a final dinner party at the Ritz in Paris to members of his unit , but had inadvertently left without paying the bill . |
| 29 | After his defeat Mr Taylor said he had given 100 per cent commitment to the seat . |
| 30 | When he had given the wounded the water , he made a second trip . |