Example sentences of "that give [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 61 | Though the business was thriving , there was one aspect that gave him great concern and over which he was powerless to exercise any sort of control . |
| 62 | It is important to remember that it was Alexander 's all-consuming passion for the theatre that gave him the determination to find out the cause of his hoarseness . |
| 63 | His arm lay against his side like another body , his but not his , a throbbing strangeness grotesquely large , a companion to his every movement and one that gave him no peace . |
| 64 | But it was working as a computer specialist in the insurance industry that gave him the necessary experience , most notably the motor insurance experience , he needed . |
| 65 | Allowing for a 12% margin of error , that gave him something between eleven and thirteen hundred miles of flight at his present subsonic speed . |
| 66 | Some of the smokers were aware of his campaign against passive smoking — the kind that gave him cancer in smoke-tarred clubs . |
| 67 | BILLY JOEL is battling to save the tiny New York club that gave him his first pop break . |
| 68 | There must have been something about Sir Paul that gave him confidence . |
| 69 | Another episode that gave him much reassurance was the time when Kate invited him in for tea at the Rectory . |
| 70 | He had heavy grey-flecked eyebrows that gave him a wise demeanour and looked on religion the way some men looked on marriage : as a necessary part of life . |
| 71 | Then , at a stroke , something happened that gave him a powerful sense of purpose . |
| 72 | Denyer decided to put together a mix of landscapes and portraits , images that gave him particular visual pleasure . |
| 73 | It drifted and swirled about him , making him peaceful and tired , until his sense of loss began to go and the night was no longer awesome , for he had the protection of a Callanish eagle near him , and that gave him peace to rest and sleep at last … |
| 74 | It was , I think , this last quality that gave him his reputation for indecision . |
| 75 | Edward , thinking with relief that he could leave them to it now , began to withdraw , clutching the bottles that gave him a certain exemption , free to come and go . |
| 76 | It was this last that gave him pause , for , he was to say , ‘ Although I had no knowledge of it — that place where the Twelve Judges sit — I believed that I had long since dreamed it , and I knew it for a place of great finality and immense power . |
| 77 | But World War I gave him the chance to stand on internationalist ground with an uncompromising fervour and personal courage that gave him a status denied to most of the others , whose work lay in the factories and in the shop stewards ' movement . |
| 78 | There were fairly obvious warnings here for a man contemplating the future independence of his own country , but , if he was shocked by what he saw here , it was the land freed by Toussaint Louverture , Haiti , that gave him most food for thought . |
| 79 | 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 . |
| 80 | There was a purposeful look now in her eyes that gave him pause . |
| 81 | His talents were demonstrated through a system that gave him opportunities and brought out the best in him . |
| 82 | 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 . |
| 83 | 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 . |
| 84 | 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 . |
| 85 | It was the Royal College for the Blind at Hereford that gave him new inspiration by teaching him how to sculpt . |
| 86 | 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 |
| 87 | 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 . |
| 88 | Leading Scot was Adam Hunter after a 72 for 291 that gave him a share of 13th place and a cheque for £5,783 . |
| 89 | One member , Bill Corless , particularly liked the exercises that gave him suppleness and flow . |
| 90 | 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 . |