Example sentences of "[verb] that [pron] gave " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , we do n't know that they gave the police the same alibi , do we ? ’ |
| 2 | Yeah because if I work it out I 'll just know that i it made so and so but I wo n't know that it gave off that I 'll just remember that it made like zinc chloride or something I wo n't remember |
| 3 | The classification of the natural world is supposed to reflect the great ordering process that itself gave rise to the variety and diversity of animals and plants that are alive today : the process of evolution . |
| 4 | I do n't that I had n't forgotten that I gave a |
| 5 | By 1989/90 the Exchequer met only 43.4 per cent , with a further 4 per cent coming from a central grant that reimbursed authorities for part of the rate rebates that they gave to poor households . |
| 6 | The other members began to find that he gave the faculty coherence and a sense of purpose . |
| 7 | This quiet group of people looked so simple and unassuming that at first he could not think what made them interesting to him , and then he realized that they gave every appearance of complete sincerity . |
| 8 | In cross-examination she agreed that she gave the police a statement and , when asked how many statements she gave , replied , ‘ I gave one statement to the investigating officer … the day after Paulette was murdered . ’ |
| 9 | But far from accepting that they gave expression to some all-important class struggle , liberal historians regard the ideas of the revolutionary intelligentsia as the product of their own psychological needs . |
| 10 | At a recent meeting with some of my local farmers , I was most encouraged to see that they gave a far higher priority to and had a greater awareness of the need for better marketing . |
| 11 | QUAKERS manager Ray Hankin revealed that he gave his players ‘ a bit of a roasting ’ after their fighting 1–0 win at Valley Parade . |
| 12 | While accepting wholeheartedly the value of this sort of study — the discipline that goes by the name of philology in English-speaking countries — Saussure argued that it gave only a partial account of linguistic phenomena . |
| 13 | The fire was so small and mean that it gave no warmth at all . |
| 14 | Unofficial strike action followed and the union 's own bankers were granted an injunction prohibiting the NUS from transferring any of their property abroad , on the principle that third parties must ensure that they gave no aid to any action which might occur if the union 's property were sequestrated as a result of some future contempt of court . |
| 15 | She says that they gave them every assistance possible . |
| 16 | He was ‘ permitted to put in a long day 's work for his Master , and it can be truly said that he gave his best ’ . |
| 17 | It has been said that he gave too much of himself in his idealistic way , and that the ‘ political football ’ aspects of the CBC in eastern Canada , where he was finally transferred , caused a breakdown in health and his early retirement . |
| 18 | Despite her eccentricity and the fact that they could n't help laughing at her , the Girls would readily acknowledge that she gave them as much , if not more , affection than they had received from their own parents . |
| 19 | But nobody attacked him for his information about France ; which shows that he gave none . |
| 20 | After the awards were announced , The Saturday Review commented that it gave ‘ the impression of an overgrown hotel at a watering place , with one of Wren 's city spires perched on its north-west angle next the parade , to hold the dinner-bell ’ . |
| 21 | This made me shudder but I was brought back to my own worries when I heard Mum demand that she gave the lump of coal back . |
| 22 | Does my right hon. Friend know that I gave up the opportunity of becoming a solicitor like the hon. Member for Glasgow , Garscadden ( Mr. Dewar ) because accountants put the losses on the right and the profits on the left ? |
| 23 | Whatever may be the limits of Article 235 , and it has been noted that it gave rise , even before the Community acquired its express environmental competence , to legislation on the conservation of wild birds , examples can be found of the development of what would appear to be new Community policies , without even a reference to Article 235 . |
| 24 | Legend has it that the mandarin was so grateful to Earl Grey for services rendered that he gave him his secret tea recipe , to keep mind , body and spirit together in perfect harmony . |
| 25 | His best-known work , Tetbury church , Gloucestershire ( 1777–81 ) , is one of the most elegant examples of late eighteenth-century Gothic and was widely admired at the time , the poet William Mason [ q.v. ] , for example , commenting that it gave him ‘ the very highest opinion ’ of Hiorne 's ‘ Gothic taste ’ ; and his approach to Gothic design also appears to have embraced at least the rudiments of scholarship as well as its decorative appeal . |
| 26 | I can only hope that we gave her sufficient help and support when the problems came along . |
| 27 | Bacteriologists immediately recognised that it gave them a unique opportunity to study the evolutionary processes governing bacterial resistance — as a synthetic antibiotic it could not be influenced by preexisting resistance genes . |
| 28 | I refer the hon. Gentleman to the rely that I gave some moments ago . |
| 29 | third of November er I guess that they gave erm information about Westbourne Parish Council 's local paper er erm agreed . |
| 30 | I guess that it gave her a sense of independence and allowed her personality , which was fairly dominant , to develop . |