Example sentences of "that give [pron] " in BNC.
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61 | On the face of it , this is very alarming and seems to imply that giving your baby cow 's milk will have her haemorrhaging blood . |
62 | That night he slept in an old cardboard box that he 'd found , and that gave him some protection from the chilling morning dew . |
63 | Ironically , it was the Government which he partly blamed for the affair that gave him the chance to return to work after retirement . |
64 | It had a pale beauty in the moonlight that gave him more unexpected enchantment . |
65 | 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 . |
66 | 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 . |
67 | The creation of the Educational Priority Areas was one of the last things which Tony Crosland accomplished at the Department of Education and Science , and one of those that gave him the greatest pleasure . |
68 | In the end it was the regular-footer Elkerton 's ability to hit for six every type of wave — leg-breaks , off-breaks , googlies , head-severing bouncers — that the Pacific could bowl at him that gave him supremacy . |
69 | 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 . |
70 | 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 . |
71 | 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 . |
72 | 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 . |
73 | Allowing for a 12% margin of error , that gave him something between eleven and thirteen hundred miles of flight at his present subsonic speed . |
74 | Some of the smokers were aware of his campaign against passive smoking — the kind that gave him cancer in smoke-tarred clubs . |
75 | BILLY JOEL is battling to save the tiny New York club that gave him his first pop break . |
76 | There must have been something about Sir Paul that gave him confidence . |
77 | Another episode that gave him much reassurance was the time when Kate invited him in for tea at the Rectory . |
78 | 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 . |
79 | Then , at a stroke , something happened that gave him a powerful sense of purpose . |
80 | Denyer decided to put together a mix of landscapes and portraits , images that gave him particular visual pleasure . |
81 | 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 … |
82 | It was , I think , this last quality that gave him his reputation for indecision . |
83 | 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 . |
84 | 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 . |
85 | 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 . |
86 | 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 . |
87 | 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 . |
88 | There was a purposeful look now in her eyes that gave him pause . |
89 | His talents were demonstrated through a system that gave him opportunities and brought out the best in him . |
90 | 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 . |