Mistress, in teaching me the alphabet, had given me the inch, and no precaution could prevent me from taking the ell.
It had given me a view of my wretched condition, without the remedy.
I had lived with him nine months, during which time he had given me a number of severe whippings, all to no good purpose.
Inside was the Testament he had given back to Vashti the evening before.
He came; and I had him escorted by eight or ten vigilant men, to whom I had given notice to watch his hands strictly.
The king was struck with horror at the description I had given of those terrible engines, and the proposal I had made.
It was believed that the unfortunate Duke had given offence to the great Cardinal by expressing his mind freely about the expense and absurdity of the whole business of the Field of the Cloth of Gold.
His noble wife was busy for him even then; for that true-hearted lady printed and widely circulated his last words, of which he had given her a copy.
On its production, in a violent hurry, by Samuel, Mr. Franklin had vanished before the bell downstairs had quite done ringing with the pull he had given to it.
Mr. Bruff gave it up, exactly as he had given it up at Aunt Verinder's, in Montagu Square.
Up to this time, I had been a little diffident about the propriety of the advice I had given to her.
The original of this prescription he had given to a friend of Castaing, who had come to his shop and asked him for it a few days after Ballet's death.
Surely, surely,' returned the other, with a misgiving that hehad given offence.
In a walking tour round Norfolk he had given her a short notice of his intended call, and she was ready to receive him.
I frequently saw this individual, availing myself of the permission which he had given me to call upon him.
What if I had given information of him to that man?
Monsieur had said that supper was to be ready at that hour: also that he had forewarned Madame of the commands he had given, in his letter.
It was only that I had given up the direction of my intelligence before the problem; or rather that the problem had dispossessed my intelligence and reigned in its stead side by side with a superstitious awe.
She received that true expression of my opinion as though I had given her a sweet of a particularly delicious kind.
I discovered that however much I had imagined I had given up Rita, that whatever agonies I had gone through, my hope of her had never been lost.
My private letter to Doña Rita, the wonderful, the unique letter of farewell, I had given up for the present.
Over the bookcase hung a photograph of the Tragic Theatre at Pompeii, which hehad given me from his collection.
Those two fellows had been faithful to us through sun and storm, had given us things that cannot be bought in any market in the world.
He put in his pocket the pistols which Javert had given him at the time of the adventure on the 3d of February, and which had remained in his hands.
He had himself devoutly removed the imperial effigy from the cross which Napoleon had given him; this made a hole, and he would not put anything in its place.
Cold, anxiety, uneasiness, the emotions of the night, had given him a genuine fever, and all these ideas were clashing together in his brain.
Before this, a long time before, he had given up his two eggs and the morsel of beef which he ate from time to time.
It was not without a tremor that he had taken the letter which Eponine had given him.
The two friends did not venture to return the count the breakfast he had given them; it would have been too absurd to offer him in exchange for his excellent table the very inferior one of Signor Pastrini.
The general proposed to cast lots for the swords, but the president said it was he who had given the provocation, and when he had given it he had supposed each would use his own arms.
As it drew near, he recognized it as the boat he had given to Jacopo.
But the three days' rest was good in spite of it all, for it had given my knee the very chance it needed.
This was a sort of victory for Thomas Mugridge, and enabled him to accept more gracefully the defeat I had given him, though, of course, he was too discreet to attempt to drive the hunters away.
Thus was I bluntly dismissed from the poop, only to find Mugridge sleeping soundly from the morphine I had given him.
She dropped his hand at this, got up and, moving across the room, made straight a small picture to which, on examining it, he had given a slight push.
Her debt, however, of course was much greater than his, because while she had only given him a worshipper he had given her a splendid temple.
He had given himself to his Dead, and it was good: this time his Dead would keep him.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "had given" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
