Example sentences of "[noun sg] that gave [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Robyn thought as she glanced out of the window , re-reading the sign that gave her enormous satisfaction every time she had occasion to see it . |
| 32 | Inspection of Enid 's diary , however , showed that there was very little in her week that gave her a sense of achievement or pleasure . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | It was , I think , this last quality that gave him his reputation for indecision . |
| 35 | To get that appointment that gave you that one sale . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | IT IS the magazine that gave us Sid The Sexist , Biffa Bacon and the Fat Slags and made a fortune for editor Chris Donald . |
| 38 | The environment that gave us opportunity was so dissimilar from that of the present as to seem more remote in time than it is . |
| 39 | Any news that gave me a chance to see her again was good news . |
| 40 | She had dabbed powder over her lipstick to rob it of its bright crimson lustre , and she had forgotten the little pink patches of rouge that gave her cheeks their rosy healthy glow . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | Any edge that gave me would not last for long , and if I was going to protect my client , if she was my client , I 'd better get on with it . |
| 43 | It was his sense of history , part romantic , part Christian , and his sense of American society that gave his films their dramatic and visual power . |
| 44 | Her face was rather pinched , tapering to a pointed chin that gave her features a look of severity not mirrored in her voice . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | During this time Coe was on the dole and living in Bermondsey , and it is this period of his life that gave him the basis for The Dwarves of Death . |
| 47 | There was something in his voice that gave her hope . |
| 48 | Ironically , it was the Government which he partly blamed for the affair that gave him the chance to return to work after retirement . |
| 49 | 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 ? |
| 50 | Still lacking is the 625 MMU/cache , a redesign of an older model that gave it trouble and caused delays in the past . |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | And erm , the other aspect , the last aspect that gave us er anxiety was something I touched on this morning when I joined in at the end of the Selby discussion . |
| 53 | It had a pale beauty in the moonlight that gave him more unexpected enchantment . |
| 54 | That was another thing that gave her pleasure ; to listen to Ben playing his whistle . |
| 55 | Newcastle manager Keegan admitted : ‘ We created a lot of chances but it has to be said that it was a dubious penalty that gave us a goal . |
| 56 | It was not Billingsley 's physical size that provoked that fear , for I was of a size with him , nor was it his profession that gave me pause , but rather the aura of incipient violence that he radiated like a blast furnace . |
| 57 | The city that gave us Cheers certainly knows how to seduce visitors . |
| 58 | The house it penned was old and brown with a porch that gave it a sort of potbelly . |
| 59 | The camera swung again , but this time George looked above it , to a monitor screen hung on a metal rafter above the audience , to see his own face in close-up , the eyes staring upward in a way that gave him an absurdly soulful look . |
| 60 | 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 . ’ |