Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [vb past] give [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Only the day before , you came barging into the flat , insinuating that I 'd given information to Richard Blake . |
| 2 | When I reminded him that I had given expert advice and spent time and petrol on his call , he agreed reluctantly that I had a case . |
| 3 | Thus it was that I decided to give Edward Young a greater part to play in At Home in Thrush Green for , having burnt down the rectory in an earlier book , it seemed only right that I should hand over the job of replacing my act of arson to the architect I had created . |
| 4 | At the back of the same red Lion Brand Cash book was a note in his mother 's handwriting to the effect that she had given Peter £1 for pocket money . |
| 5 | It was the first time she had been left on her own and she had managed quite well except that she had given Mrs Prichard , the colliery manager 's wife , short change by mistake . |
| 6 | Broadcast on November 23rd , 1982 , the Play for Today , ‘ John David ’ was meticulously balanced in its depiction of the true life dilemma facing the author of the play , Paula Milne , on discovering that she had given birth to a child with Down 's Syndrome . |
| 7 | Looking at her emaciated body , it was a miracle that she had given birth to him in the first place . |
| 8 | For the first time since her escape she was very conscious of the fact that she had given birth only a month before and could even fancy she felt a pulling sensation where the fundament stitches had been . |
| 9 | The Magistrate , for example , when told that Mrs Wright had been taken ill , showed no interest whatsoever , and when further informed , a little later , that she had given birth , observed dryly : " I 'm surprised that she had the energy . " |
| 10 | I wanted to ask whether she thought her own life unwasted and whether the fact that she had given birth to me was sufficient justification for it . |
| 11 | In a series of radio interviews on May 8 Annie Murphy revealed that she and Casey had embarked on a love affair in Ireland in 1973 and that she had given birth to his child two years later . |
| 12 | Since she was sixteen she had experienced life , and none of it had been good , except that she had given birth to a daughter and also that she had found out what love was , but had experienced the painful futility of it . |
| 13 | Feradach whispered to Oisin that you had to give credit where it was due ; Tealtaoich really did this sort of thing extremely well . |
| 14 | In such discussions Zuwaya generally assumed that they had given offence unwittingly , and that malign actions were always done by others , requiring Zuwaya to pursue justice . |
| 15 | I think it was er fairly evident that he had given permission for the three British hostages to be released after Sir Edward Heath 's meeting with Tariq . |
| 16 | Sir Gregory had no intention of admitting that he had given way to his wife 's insistence that Jennifer must go , so he refrained from giving Harry any sort of answer . |
| 17 | Four weeks later the partners returned to see Mr Barnes with the news that BCCI chief executive Swaleh Naqvi had admitted that false documentation had been prepared ‘ to deceive the auditors ’ , and that he had given information about loans to BCCI shareholders secured on CCAH shares . |
| 18 | The caretaker Prime Minister , Jatoi , said on Oct. 8 that he had given Bush written assurances that " Pakistan had no intention of producing nuclear weapons " . |
| 19 | Yet there were also incentives for Louis IX to come to terms : Joinville reports that Louis replied to his critics , who asked why he should give away ‘ so great a part of your land , that you and your ancestors have conquered , and which has been forfeited ’ , that he had given Henry , Aquitaine , Gascony and the three dioceses ‘ to create affection between my children and his , who are cousins-germain' . |
| 20 | When they parted , he was sure that he had given Ludovico serious pause for thought . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . |
| 22 | Apparently in an attempt to deny the accusation , Ahmed al-Zahrani reportedly claimed that he had given Maha Banat 500 Riyals for sexual favours . |
| 23 | He used to say that he wanted to give prose the strength and stature of poetry ; but part of this project seemed to include first cutting poetry down to size . |