Example sentences of "that gave she a " in BNC.

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1 A country that gave her a cold welcome , in which the To Let signs specified ‘ No Coloureds ’ , and of which she wrote in Second-Class Citizen , ‘ If I had been Jesus I would have passed England by and not dropped a single blessing . ’
2 Inspection of Enid 's diary , however , showed that there was very little in her week that gave her a sense of achievement or pleasure .
3 Hidden away , pushed to the darker recesses of her mind , it was a tangible presence that gave her a degree of comfort in the terrible loneliness of her marriage .
4 The hull was presumably steel ; it was this that gave her a rust-streaked look under the dirty coating of ice and snow .
5 Because she was beautiful , with her flaxen blonde hair tumbling down her back and those unusual dark eyes and eyebrows that gave her a look of the exotic .
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