Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] that [pers pn] [verb] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | Several women friends of Waddell said that he had given them within days of the murder large sums of money ; and a barman to whom Waddell had given £1000 for safe keeping said Waddell had told him he had won a packet on the horses . |
| 2 | When Derek got the run they all cheered and a reporter commented that they had given him a great welcome , but could not possibly have known the significance of the run . |
| 3 | The discussion of this chapter so far might perhaps be summed up by noting that Lakatos aimed to give a rationalist account of science but failed , whilst Kuhn denied that he aimed to give a relativist account of science but gave one nevertheless . |
| 4 | Dad and I went in and Mr Vulcan explained that he wished to give me the harmonium and that there was a clean bed upstairs if we wanted it . |
| 5 | Although Romulo denied that he had given such an unequivocal pledge , Ramos stated on Sept. 15 that he would not pursue the Philippine claim to sovereignty . |
| 6 | In Committee , the Minister said that he wanted to give a fair wind to employee-management buy-outs . |
| 7 | She was detained because the authorities suspected that she had given a Tibetan nationalist flag to a Buddhist monk from Gyurme monastery . |
| 8 | The talks were going very well and Smith said that he wanted to give us a holiday and take us to Victoria Falls in his plane . |