Example sentences of "[noun sg] that they gave " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not B T , it used to be B T , erm until about 1984 , when we decided that the maintenance that they gave us was n't good enough , and got Plessey in . |
| 2 | Instead their lasting legacy and major influence was the legitimacy that they gave for local politics to be reduced to urban politics , which in turn consisted solely of issues concerning collective consumption . |
| 3 | The meaning that they gave it should send cold shivers down the spine of any parent : fully a half thought that it was an instruction to cross the road , and half of these thought that it was showing you how to do it — by running ! |
| 4 | I think that day that they gave me a lift home . |
| 5 | A few opposed the proposals on the ground that they gave international sanction to an undemocratic regime , but it was the more nationalist elements which were particularly vocal , and there was a broad measure of support for their sentiments . |
| 6 | And like my parents sort of went , the thought that they gave them money that we had for it , yeah |
| 7 | and er I managed to get er do forty odd years and erm now I 'm quite happy on the pension that they gave me . |
| 8 | The explanation that they gave was that the Caribs had been conquered by the neighbouring Arawak ; Carib men were exterminated but the conquerors took the women in marriage . |
| 9 | I just remember the all-pervading feeling of reassurance that they gave me throughout . |
| 10 | There were different kinds of customary tenure , but they had in common the fact that they gave some protection to the unfree man against arbitrary expropriation . |