Example sentences of "[adj] that [pron] gave " in BNC.

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1 If so , it is clear that he gave up after a short while , returned to E ( which needed a fresh set of running titles before printing could resume ) and finished it off regardless .
2 It is perhaps interesting that she gave her forwarding address in America as 83 Brattle Street which was , in fact , where Emily Hale lived .
3 A tangerine that Modigliani gave me — we were in front of a fruit-shop — and another that he gave to his wife : that is my last memory of them . ’
4 Shields , of Carnac Crescent , Inverness , was said to have felt so guilty that he gave himself up to police after selling some of the haul to pay for drink .
5 Did you want me so much that you gave them up ? ’
6 He did NOT write these words : ‘ God loved the brainy people and attractive people in the world so much that he gave his only Son , so that anyone with 8 GCSEs , 3 A-Levels and loads of friends may not die but have eternal life ’ ! !
7 I remember when I first met you at the house of terror ; what you gave me , all that you gave me .
8 Their reaction was so encouraging that it gave me the strength to carry on .
9 Once I waited so long and stayed so late that I gave myself away to Syl , who had called in the usual way at the front door , to be told by my mother that I was in the summer-house and he should go and bring me out and back to the drawing-room where , like normal people , we should converse .
10 She felt slightly ashamed that it gave her such satisfaction .
11 ‘ And he just stood there , ’ Emlyn concluded , ‘ looking so desperate that I gave us both an enormous gin and tonic ! ’
12 We do know that it was not until the late summer of 1965 that he gave private indications of his intention to stand for a second term , and not until 4 November that he made his decision public .
13 Inside , the room was bathed in a chic and sickly light , so sickly and so chic that it gave the impression of being a chartreuse light ( chartreuse is this year 's chic colour ; its sickliness needs no introduction from me ) although it was in fact pink .
14 If it is thus hardly surprising that he gave I and II Cnut his backing at a Christmas court at Winchester , it is also impossible to prove that his regime otherwise paid them much heed .
15 I was so surprised that I gave a great shout .
16 I was n't aware that I gave that impression .
17 It is certainly true that he gave a sculpture of Our Lady of Sorrows , with a gold heart round her neck , to the hospice .
18 It is true that he gave one daughter , Eadburh , in marriage to Beorhtric , king of the West Saxons ( ASC A , s.a. 787 ) , and another , Aelfflaed , to Aethelred , king of Northumbria , in 792 , but the revival of a Northumbrian coinage at this time by Aethelred ( see above , p. 158 ) and the inauguration of a new West Saxon coinage by Beorhtric at Winchester or Southampton testifies to their continuing independence .
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