Example sentences of "[that] [pron] [vb past] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Queen commending his work , not only for the pains therein taken , said that nothing had given her so great delectation . |
| 2 | The road had for so long been the only goal that I 'd given no thought to anything beyond . |
| 3 | ‘ Only the day before , you came barging into the flat , insinuating that I 'd given information to Richard Blake . |
| 4 | Nor that I wished to give myself in life |
| 5 | He had expressed so often the depth of his love and had made it clear to me that I had given meaning to his life . |
| 6 | But I do now sometimes wish that I had given them more time when I did have them . ’ |
| 7 | Who said that I had given thee up . |
| 8 | I asked Toby to do me a favour and tell the Fleet Street ‘ dirty mac brigade ’ , who covered crime and other seedy activities , that I had given him an exclusive . |
| 9 | Fortunately those of my friends who knew me before were only amused by this foolish description and there was no general resentment of my peerage , which could properly have been attributed to many services that I had given to the government — of both colours . |
| 10 | It was true that I had given him life but I had not given him love . |
| 11 | He and I have had a series of meetings about the provision of the slip road , and he reminded me of an undertaking that I had given when Minister responsible for health matters a few years ago . |
| 12 | When I reminded him that I had given expert advice and spent time and petrol on his call , he agreed reluctantly that I had a case . |
| 13 | I was surrounded by a crowd of shouting , gesticulating Malts , who pulled at my parachute , lifted my head and drove me so furious that I had to give up the dying idea in order to concentrate completely on kicking every Malt who came within range . |
| 14 | Thus it was that I decided to give Edward Young a greater part to play in At Home in Thrush Green for , having burnt down the rectory in an earlier book , it seemed only right that I should hand over the job of replacing my act of arson to the architect I had created . |
| 15 | Saturday morning , and once again a fair and breezy day , so fair that I decided to give myself a holiday from writing , and go straight after breakfast to pick up the supplies I would need for the weekend . |
| 16 | ‘ It was then that I decided to give it a try . |
| 17 | ‘ I said that I liked to give the islanders the impression that I lived alone . ’ |
| 18 | A quick sideways prod of the transfer gear-lever was all that I needed to give the big machine the traction of a funicular railway , as if an invisible cable winch was hauling me up . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've always been very aware that I needed to give something back after this experience and when I read about the appeal for people prepared to give homes to the Bosnians , I decided it was time I stepped in . ’ |
| 20 | He adds : ‘ I also felt that I wanted to give the love that I felt for her in the way she needs love to be given . ’ |
| 21 | I regret to say that I forgot to give the Vice Chairman 's apologies for non-attendance . |
| 22 | Her looted heart , first ransacked of all that she had to give and then shattered . |
| 23 | He was laughing at her , yet in such a nice way that she had to give in and join in the laughter . |
| 24 | She felt that she had given the whole thing away , that the Hare-woman 's eyes would be able to read all her thoughts from her face and that single word . |
| 25 | She passed it off as a joke , furious that she had given herself away . |
| 26 | Broadcast on November 23rd , 1982 , the Play for Today , ‘ John David ’ was meticulously balanced in its depiction of the true life dilemma facing the author of the play , Paula Milne , on discovering that she had given birth to a child with Down 's Syndrome . |
| 27 | It was in memory of those days that she had given The Bar its first and now largely forgotten name , Babylon . |
| 28 | She was detained because the authorities suspected that she had given a Tibetan nationalist flag to a Buddhist monk from Gyurme monastery . |
| 29 | Looking at her emaciated body , it was a miracle that she had given birth to him in the first place . |
| 30 | At the back of the same red Lion Brand Cash book was a note in his mother 's handwriting to the effect that she had given Peter £1 for pocket money . |