Example sentences of "that it gave [pron] " in BNC.

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1 She felt slightly ashamed that it gave her such satisfaction .
2 Their reaction was so encouraging that it gave me the strength to carry on .
3 I believe that day implanted in me a life-long craving for barbaric splendour , for savagery and colour and the throb of drums , and that it gave me a lasting veneration for long-established custom and ritual , from which would derive later a deep-seated resentment of Western innovations in other lands , and a distaste for the drab uniformity of the modern world .
4 Bacteriologists immediately recognised that it gave them a unique opportunity to study the evolutionary processes governing bacterial resistance — as a synthetic antibiotic it could not be influenced by preexisting resistance genes .
5 Opposition Sajudis members objected , without effect , to the timing of the election on the grounds that it gave them inadequate time for preparation .
6 I 'm sure she enjoyed it and that it gave her a purpose in life .
7 I guess that it gave her a sense of independence and allowed her personality , which was fairly dominant , to develop .
8 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 .
9 His main diversion was music , which ‘ did relieve his drooping spirits , compose his distracted thoughts and raised his weary soul so far above the earth , that it gave him an earnest of the joys of heaven ’ .
10 It was widely said that he had long resented the Shah 's great oil wealth and the independence that it gave him .
11 His best-known work , Tetbury church , Gloucestershire ( 1777–81 ) , is one of the most elegant examples of late eighteenth-century Gothic and was widely admired at the time , the poet William Mason [ q.v. ] , for example , commenting that it gave him ‘ the very highest opinion ’ of Hiorne 's ‘ Gothic taste ’ ; and his approach to Gothic design also appears to have embraced at least the rudiments of scholarship as well as its decorative appeal .
12 Another experience was when he was praying before the crucifix in San Damiano and it seemed to him that it gave him the message , " Build my church " , which he immediately interpreted quite literally as , " Save this church from crumbling into ruins " .
13 So it 's a very great honour and privilege for me to address you today because at the end it may be difficult for you to understand but when I return to South Africa , and forgive me for speaking personally I also realize the full meaning of the support of British trade unions and the labour movement and the churches because it was because of your political material and particularly in the case of the G M B , financial and material support that it gave us the means to do what some of us wanted to do about our country and our situation , and bring about change if we could peacefully .
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