Example sentences of "[adv] that [pers pn] gave " in BNC.

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1 John wrote these words : ‘ God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son , so that everyone who believes in him may not die but have eternal life . ’
2 Her father loved her so much that he gave her everything , and never scolded her .
3 Equally remarkably , he made them open their pockets , so that they gave with extraordianry generosity when other communities as far away as Italy suffered disasters like their own .
4 The second reason is immigration , where we gained on balance about half a million people and they of course were mostly young , they had their families here , so that they gave the impression of having very high birthrates .
5 The baby suddenly revealed its head and thrust its way out of her , so that she gave a great agonised cry .
6 He lay down on her and penetrated her again so that she gave a cry of relief .
7 I gather that the match was played at the new centre — little more than a new clay court being put down in an old car park and towering scaffolding stands then being erected around it , rising almost vertically so that it gave the impression of the fans literally hovering over the court .
8 Sony Corporation 's Tape Recorder Division tried to redesign a small portable tape recorder so that it gave stereophonic sound .
9 Not that I gave it serious thought .
10 Not that she gave a damn , but Lucy 's mind was obviously on him .
11 Not that she gave a damn .
12 These days she was glad of any invitation to proximity , and curled up beside him so promptly that he gave her an amused sidelong glance as he took her hand in his .
13 It was true also that she gave English lessons and that she had applied for a full-time job as an English teacher in a small private school .
14 From the mid-1640s , the celebration of Christmas was forbidden , Puritans arguing both that the festival was pagan in origin and also that it gave licence to ‘ carnal and sensual delights ’ .
15 Erm mm , I do n't know whether there 's any way round it but that 's sort of the set up that they gave us when we started and I guess I 'll have to sort of conform to that , but it
16 He 's trying to make out that I gave it to him when I gave him a spoonful of that … stuff …
17 Oh , before that she gave him strict injunctions to be sure to kill Horrible or he would destroy them all , which was duly done .
18 Dr Prescott said in New Scientist today that it gave a ‘ big boost ’ which salt or sugar alone could not provide .
19 Commenting on his sexual abstinence Erik Erikson writes : ‘ It is of importance here that he gave up sexual intimacy for a wider communal intimacy and not just because sexuality seemed immoral in any Calvinistic sense .
20 She loved Nick , loved him so much sometimes that it gave her a pain , but she hated to be told to do something she was going to do anyway .
21 It was duly arranged that we should meet after work , and it was then that I gave him further details about my ‘ sponsored ’ trip to Paris and about my much more ambitious idea of a trip to Libya .
22 Huge stiffened but graceful garlands were hung from twenty-four tiny hooks set round the gallery parapet , and were constructed so cleverly that they gave the impression of winding around the gallery pillars .
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