Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [noun prp] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For twenty years Floridablanca 's ‘ system ’ — the French alliance — had given Spain the appearance of a first-class naval , military , and colonial power . |
| 2 | Brian had given Scarlet the impression that , if it had not been for his first wife and her child , and his second wife and her child , he would have been living a life of carefree splendour in a house adjacent to the park . |
| 3 | She hoped she had given Peter the chance to cry , if he had wanted to , but he had not taken it . |
| 4 | She seemed embarrassed and muttered that her mother had given Terry the photograph , but before she said any more Mrs Redmond began to ask Joe about the war news . |
| 5 | It had been her cousin 's whole-hearted approval — and her joy at the thought of her children returning to the old family home — that had given Laura the courage to leave her mother-in-law 's house in Knightsbridge . |
| 6 | Northern Ireland international Magilton , who had given Oxford the lead from the penalty spot , went after 58 minutes for retaliation after being fouled by Paul Raynor . |
| 7 | She had given Victor the night off , and got Martin a beer and herself a glass of juice from the fridge . |
| 8 | Joe Carr had given Jarrow the lead at half time , with Michael Taylor levelling the scores before Norman Platts shot home Silksworth 's winner in the 87th minute . |
| 9 | It reminded him of his own inadequacy ; it made Arabella 's betrayal all the worse ; it had given Newley the courage to think of divorcing Georgina . |
| 10 | Wright struck just 52 seconds after Kevin Campbell had given Arsenal the lead in a dismal match at Highfield Road . |
| 11 | It was in December 1511 that the King of Spain had given Balboa the job of Captain-General of the fledgling colony of Darién . |
| 12 | He replied that there was no substance in the allegation of French unpreparedness in the Verdun sector and asked for the names of those who had given Galliéni the information so that they might be admonished . |
| 13 | Riches : until she had given Luke the money she owed him , paid a month 's rent in advance , redeemed a few things from the pawnshop , bought extra coal for the cold weather , taken Liam to a doctor because something had to be done about his cough ; looked down the bleak distance of the weeks ahead with no work promised . |
| 14 | It was director Joseph L Mankiewicz who had given Brando the chance to prove he was more than just a mumbling slob by casting him as Mark Antony in Julius Caesar . |
| 15 | Before they had parted on the Flamingo she had given Ernest the name of the boardinghouse where the Carsons had made arrangements to stay , and he had promised to write to her the minute he and Charlotte arrived at their destination . |
| 16 | O'Hara reminded him that Jung had considered Liverpool the centre of the Universe . |
| 17 | ‘ His mother told him on the morning of the killing that Joanne had phoned Dean the night before . |
| 18 | She slept , with something of her old determination , in order to be awake when he came ; and often she wanted to talk : about Bruges ; about the past ; about all the foolish exploits that had made Claes the apprentice notorious — the jokes with the gun and the waterwheel ; the chases , the skating ; the escapade with the ostrich . |
| 19 | But the Phoenix King had lent Tyrion the services of a unit of White Lions and these bold warriors ' knowledge of their homeland was to prove invaluable . |
| 20 | He had offered George the idea of trying to leave Person Y out altogether but George hat been firm : the Secret Service would spot any gaps . |
| 21 | The voice was the same tight voice that had told Clare the hospital ceiling was coming down . |
| 22 | Jackson , a woman who had told Robert the story of her dog 's operation no less than seventeen times . |
| 23 | When Ernie Bushnell had appointed Horace Stovin as his programme representative for western Canada , we had sold CBC the idea of a weekly quarter-hour studio production from CHAB . |
| 24 | He had apparently been a most unlucky loser of the Two Thousand Guineas at Newmarket , when the judge Charles Robinson had called Louvois the winner despite the conviction of most people present that Craganour , finishing on the other side of the course from his rival , had held on . |
| 25 | He responded by explaining to the chairman of the committee , the fashionable playwright and military man John Burgoyne , how he had entered Murshidabad the capital of Bengal as a conqueror and how bankers and jewellers had rushed forward to thrust presents on him ; and , he concluded , as he thought back to the moment of triumph , ‘ By God , Mr. Chairman , I stand amazed at my own moderation . ’ |
| 26 | J. R. Clynes , the new Lord Privy Seal , wrote picturesquely of ‘ the strange turn in Fortune 's wheel which had brought MacDonald the starveling clerk , Thomas the engine driver , Henderson the foundry labourer and Clynes the mill-hand , to this pinnacle beside the man whose forebears had been Kings for so many splendid generations . |
| 27 | But what if Rayer 's high tackle on Morris had cost Wales the match as it so easily could have done ? |
| 28 | He seemed quite to have lost the preoccupied air that had troubled Hazel the night before . |
| 29 | This can be seen particularly clearly in the measures taken against Sir Edward Woodville , who , according to Mancini , had left London the day before news of Rivers ' arrest reached the city . |
| 30 | This can be seen particularly clearly in the measures taken against Sir Edward Woodville , who , according to Mancini , had left London the day before news of Rivers ' arrest reached the city . |