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 | 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 . |
| 4 | Their reaction was so encouraging that it gave me the strength to carry on . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She felt slightly ashamed that it gave her such satisfaction . |
| 7 | ‘ And he just stood there , ’ Emlyn concluded , ‘ looking so desperate that I gave us both an enormous gin and tonic ! ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I was so surprised that I gave a great shout . |
| 11 | I was n't aware that I gave that impression . |
| 12 | It is certainly true that he gave a sculpture of Our Lady of Sorrows , with a gold heart round her neck , to the hospice . |
| 13 | 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 . |