Example sentences of "that gave he [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Some of the smokers were aware of his campaign against passive smoking — the kind that gave him cancer in smoke-tarred clubs .
2 Belonging here defined him , made him free to wander , because here he had roots to return to , an anchor that gave him stability and a sense of permanence .
3 It was this last that gave him pause , for , he was to say , ‘ Although I had no knowledge of it — that place where the Twelve Judges sit — I believed that I had long since dreamed it , and I knew it for a place of great finality and immense power .
4 There was a purposeful look now in her eyes that gave him pause .
5 In the end it was the regular-footer Elkerton 's ability to hit for six every type of wave — leg-breaks , off-breaks , googlies , head-severing bouncers — that the Pacific could bowl at him that gave him supremacy .
6 It drifted and swirled about him , making him peaceful and tired , until his sense of loss began to go and the night was no longer awesome , for he had the protection of a Callanish eagle near him , and that gave him peace to rest and sleep at last …
7 There must have been something about Sir Paul that gave him confidence .
8 One member , Bill Corless , particularly liked the exercises that gave him suppleness and flow .
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