Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] [vb past] [adv] give [pron] " in BNC.

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1 I think about it a hell of a lot you know , not with morbid fascination but because everything that I went through gave me an inner strength and I am frightened to lose it .
2 Because I would think it 's that I had n't given you the
3 I 'm just sorry that I did n't give it to you sooner .
4 And Lucy called her in the morning , swept away all doubts with a rush of enthusiasm about the exhibition , and only when they 'd hung up did Jay realise that she had n't given her a date , a time ; that she — they ? — were just where they 'd been five months before .
5 He added that she had not given him her London address .
6 She had been so worried that she had not given one thought to the fact that she was here in her nightdress with Felipe standing looking down at her .
7 ‘ Fortunately for you , ’ she agreed swiftly , having momentarily forgotten that she had deliberately given him the impression that she wanted their affair kept secret .
8 It crossed Juliet 's mind that she 'd never given him her home number , so how could he know it ?
9 Her voice trailed away as she realised , from the other woman 's beaming smile of relief , that she 'd inadvertently given her hostess quite the wrong impression .
10 ‘ You can say that you did n't give her a photograph . ’
11 The Treaty of Rome , with the consent of the British people , was given force in this country by our EC Act of 1972 ; Brussels has no power to legislate for us that we did not give it .
12 Dorothy explained that they had n't given her any money ; she was here as a reporter for a journal whose name they knew ; her membership of the feminist abortion campaign to which PopCon had just made a large grant was irrelevant to the present discussion ; she was just doing her job .
13 I knew that they had not given you enough time to recover from the pneumonia .
14 Umpires David Shepherd and John Holder chivvied them several times , but although the players might deny it suited them tactically to keep as many of their batting overs in hand for the next day when better weather was promised , it is difficult to dismiss the thought that the level of fines was so derisory that they did not give it a thought .
15 that 's another story with a an unusual ending cos I 'd have thought when you were saying that he was n't that he did n't give them the
16 ‘ You can see that he did n't give himself the time to finish it .
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