Example sentences of "that [pron] gave the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think it was on that Sunday , but it may have been on the Sunday before , that I gave the last message from the Burma Broadcasting Service . |
| 2 | I can not really add to the answer that I gave the hon. Member for Birmingham , Erdington ( Mr. Corbett ) . |
| 3 | My reply to him is the same as the one that I gave the right hon. Member for Llanelli ( Mr. Davies ) , in which I said that VAT registrations had increased by 25 per cent . |
| 4 | I withdraw the commendation that I gave the hon. Gentleman , but only because that is damaging his political career . |
| 5 | This made me shudder but I was brought back to my own worries when I heard Mum demand that she gave the lump of coal back . |
| 6 | In cross-examination she agreed that she gave the police a statement and , when asked how many statements she gave , replied , ‘ I gave one statement to the investigating officer … the day after Paulette was murdered . ’ |
| 7 | This so alarmed the Sicilians , who wanted nothing to do with a German prince , that they gave the throne to William 's illegitimate cousin , Tancred of Lecca , an ambitious man famed for his ugliness of both temper and physique . |
| 8 | Of course , we do n't know that they gave the police the same alibi , do we ? ’ |
| 9 | Huge stiffened but graceful garlands were hung from twenty-four tiny hooks set round the gallery parapet , and were constructed so cleverly that they gave the impression of winding around the gallery pillars . |
| 10 | The second reason is immigration , where we gained on balance about half a million people and they of course were mostly young , they had their families here , so that they gave the impression of having very high birthrates . |
| 11 | I gather that the match was played at the new centre — little more than a new clay court being put down in an old car park and towering scaffolding stands then being erected around it , rising almost vertically so that it gave the impression of the fans literally hovering over the court . |
| 12 | The name change was necessary , it was argued , because the original name referred to a single event that had taken place over a decade previously , that it gave the wrong image , and did n't properly describe the work being done by the organisation . |
| 13 | In Athens the political equality of the citizens coexisted uneasily with economic inequality , as it continues to do today ; but the whole point of the democracy was that it gave the poor as well as the rich a part to play in governing the city . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | One of the things that he objected to about a tradition of painting that was governed by a scientific , single viewpoint system of perspective was that it gave the spectator an incomplete picture or idea about the subject . |
| 16 | The opposition parties argued , however , that it gave the government too many powers , particularly with regard to the allocation of frequencies and senior appointments . |
| 17 | The other members began to find that he gave the faculty coherence and a sense of purpose . |
| 18 | Only the historic fact that he gave the Irish capital the first public performance of what would become the most popular of all oratorios . |
| 19 | Alternatively , the doctor may argue that he gave the pills to ease pain or for sleeping , and invite the court to believe him . |
| 20 | Coleridge 's improbably romantic explanation and evident intelligence so impressed the man that he gave the remarkable child a subscription to the circulating library in Cheapside , where he began , according to his own not unlikely account , to read every book it contained . |
| 21 | that he gave the names of two patients to journalists without first seeking their permission ; |
| 22 | Surere , presumably , had sent for him because he needed his help ; why was it , then , that he gave the impression of bestowing a favour ? |
| 23 | Yes Mr Chairman I 'm not clear erm about something that Mr Gordon said in his opening remarks that I 'd like clarified and that is that he gave the committee the impression that there were er certain of the of the partners that were accepting erm a lower specification in other words , omitting from the what is the British best if you like , erm certain items of of equipment in order to reduce cost of the aircraft , both in development stage and at the production stage , final cost of the aircraft , unit cost . |