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

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1 I would n't mind betting that Bill 's lists that you gave him actually contained all these things and only then can we actually put them down in order .
2 The reasons that they gave for this varied considerably .
3 For the reasons that I gave in answer to my hon. Friend the Member for Bexleyheath ( Mr. Townsend ) , I believe that we are looking after the interests and future of the wood as thoroughly as any reasonable person could .
4 Erm , funnily enough earlier on in August , erm , I rang you up about Yugoslavia , and er , I , one of the reasons that I gave for not , the Europeans , not intervening in Yugoslavia was my fear that it might lead to the Russian military unseating Gorbachev and my , er , discard that the , the sick man of Russia , so erm , sort of parallel I , well I would n't parallel it with Yugoslavia , my argument in Yugoslavia was that we should n't intervene because we do not have primary interests with , I mean , well we clearly have general interest but we do n't have primary interest , additionally in Russia is that everybody , in the world have interest but I would definitely here say that Britain should clearly do nothing per .
5 For many of the reasons that he gave , the contract for a Shell Sole Pit compression platform has been awarded to Highfab .
6 Just not going away , even the tablets that you gave me , they was n't even taking it away , it , away like .
7 And I thought er and er I had wee tablets that you gave me a while ago , Brusdeximit
8 I thank the Minister for delivering every one of the pledges that he gave us in Committee .
9 He feasted for months , for years , on a small pair of my slippers that I gave him ; I expect he has burnt them by now .
10 My hon. Friend points to a further interesting fact : although the figures that I gave were 100 per cent .
11 The Minister referred to the figures that I gave on regional assistance .
12 The hon. Gentleman referred to an apparent increase in tbe number of offences involving knives , and I will examine the figures that he gave .
13 The figures that she gave referred to comparisons with the private sector , not the national health service .
14 She thinks it 's those gloves that she gave you , keeping you warm . ’
15 Once he has come reasonably to the conclusion that this will happen , the question whether his decision to issue the particular instructions that he gave was a reasonable one in the circumstances is subject to a further test of reasonableness .
16 I 'd just like to add that included in the numbers that I gave you for Camco were not just redundancy costs , but costs of closures of sales offices , distribution networks and some other special one-time charges , so it 's not pure redundancy when you look at the numbers that I gave you earlier on .
17 I 'd just like to add that included in the numbers that I gave you for Camco were not just redundancy costs , but costs of closures of sales offices , distribution networks and some other special one-time charges , so it 's not pure redundancy when you look at the numbers that I gave you earlier on .
18 ‘ But the balance sheets that you gave Craig and the fact that the thefts went on while he was in prison , did n't all that prove it was his brother 's fault ? ’
19 Most of them it 's been questions of rather less fundamental changes in the actual teaching style in the classroom and sometimes it 's been a question of concentrating on rather different kinds of things or giving more time to one kind of activity than another , or changing the pattern of assignments that they gave children , or things that were still well within the capacity of teachers to change without involving sort of fundamental changes in teaching style .
20 Hatton was so impressed by his bad boys that he gave them colourful 1930s ‘ punk rock ’ pseudonyms — Alf Artful , Billy Dustup and Reggie Smashem — which are no more suggestive of obedience and docility than other pre-war descriptions of brawls , affrays , legless drunks , or street robbers armed with sand-bags and cut-throat razors .
21 so mind the wee er nerve pills that you gave me mamma .
22 Multilateralists on the Labour benches , who had supported the retention of nuclear weapons on the grounds that they gave Britain an independent foreign policy , were seriously discomfited by the obvious loss of a measure of that independence through acceptance of an American delivery system .
23 Encouraged by the views of our solicitor , David Cooper of Gouldens , Robert Carnwath , QC appeared on SAVE 's behalf seeking to quash Ridley 's decision on the grounds that he gave insufficient and unclear reasons for granting consent .
24 Opposition Sajudis members objected , without effect , to the timing of the election on the grounds that it gave them inadequate time for preparation .
25 This hypothetical test was preferred on the grounds that it gave rise to less uncertainty , and avoided the possibility of the court acting on the basis of hindsight .
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