Example sentences of "[conj] gave [pers pn] " in BNC.
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31 | I think I got it because of my local knowledge and the that gave him the facility of being able to carry on without interruption . |
32 | There was a purposeful look now in her eyes that gave him pause . |
33 | His talents were demonstrated through a system that gave him opportunities and brought out the best in him . |
34 | I would put vodka in his beer , and that gave him a very grumpy constitution after lunch- and he would start shouting back at Winner . |
35 | Five years ago a medical general practitioner might have spent $8,000 a year on an insurance policy that gave him cover for a claim up to $1m . |
36 | Belonging here defined him , made him free to wander , because here he had roots to return to , an anchor that gave him stability and a sense of permanence . |
37 | It was the Royal College for the Blind at Hereford that gave him new inspiration by teaching him how to sculpt . |
38 | Denis Smith says hopefully to get three points and play good football … there 's not much they can do in two days but his team talk will be tell the players to go out enjoy it and pass the ball … by a strange twist of fate Smith 's first match at the Manor is against the team that gave him the sack last season Bristol City |
39 | DURHAM DALES Mr Tony Blair , who would almost certainly have been in Mr Kinnock 's cabinet , won Sedgefield with 1.71pc swing that gave him a increased majority of 14,859 . |
40 | Leading Scot was Adam Hunter after a 72 for 291 that gave him a share of 13th place and a cheque for £5,783 . |
41 | One member , Bill Corless , particularly liked the exercises that gave him suppleness and flow . |
42 | Recently , TCS entered into an agreement with Lotus Development Corporation that gave them exclusive distribution rights for the whole range of Recently there was uproar in India following ‘ body shopping ’ by American software firms . |
43 | Before entering battle , the warriors stripped to breech-cloth and moccasins , some donning war-bonnets , then prepared their medicine bundles and applied sacred body paint to invoke the Wyakin medicine powers that gave them supernatural protection . |
44 | All of the walking species had the widely-splayed legs that gave them a slow and lumbering gait , but , in the absence of more streamlined animals , they prospered . |
45 | In setting himself such a standard , Herbert sought to fulfil the ambition expressed when he was ordained : ‘ Though the iniquity of the late times have made clergymen meanly valued and the sacred name of priest contemptible ; yet I will labour to make it honourable , by consecrating all my learning and all my poor abilities to advance the glory of God that gave them . ’ |
46 | These advanced primates had large brains and eyes at the front of the face that gave them stereoscopic forward vision . |
47 | What else could lead researchers to test the ultimate laws of nature with machines bigger than the ancient state of Athens , or to seek to live in space , cast adrift from the world that gave them birth ? |
48 | Capitalist economic relations were established in the countryside through the ‘ enclosures ’ , where land became the private property of landowners and the rural work-force was stripped of the land-use rights that gave them an independent source of subsistence . |
49 | Death that gave them such a profound and lasting understanding of each other . |
50 | What is interesting about them is that while the development corporations acquired powers that gave them a great deal of autonomy within their own territories , there is today a variety of questions to be raised about the extent to which their ‘ success ’ was secured at the expense of other policies to which they ‘ ought ’ to have related . |
51 | There was no one in the office , the entire sales team having discovered important appointments that gave them excuses to sneak off home and start the weekend early . |
52 | The will that gave them title had been written on a torn-out page of a 1938 diary , the only paper available when the family learnt of their imminent fate in the gas chamber . |
53 | You remember those things : they littered the creeks and bywaters of harbours , slowly returning to nature , back to the trees and minerals that gave them life . |
54 | In the process of sexual selection , certain males were said to develop characteristics that gave them the edge over other males in the competition for females . |
55 | The residents complain to the city council that gave them the land — and discover that it has now designated the area as a garbage dump . |
56 | In short Moses Moses revealed to that like the Egyptians each generation of Jews that gave them their character in general which is that today |
57 | The girl singer was in good voice by the pool , singing some sentimental Spanish favourites , with that wistful lilt that gave them their distinctive charm . |
58 | Governors admit they knew of an association between the 2 men , but they say that gave them no cause for concern . |
59 | A country that gave her a cold welcome , in which the To Let signs specified ‘ No Coloureds ’ , and of which she wrote in Second-Class Citizen , ‘ If I had been Jesus I would have passed England by and not dropped a single blessing . ’ |
60 | Inspection of Enid 's diary , however , showed that there was very little in her week that gave her a sense of achievement or pleasure . |