Example sentences of "[noun] that gave [pers pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a purposeful look now in her eyes that gave him pause . |
| 2 | Some of the smokers were aware of his campaign against passive smoking — the kind that gave him cancer in smoke-tarred clubs . |
| 3 | There was no one in the office , the entire sales team having discovered important appointments that gave them excuses to sneak off home and start the weekend early . |
| 4 | But the electron carries a high energy transverse to the direction of the collision , and thus bears the signature of the W particle that gave it birth . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | IT IS the magazine that gave us Sid The Sexist , Biffa Bacon and the Fat Slags and made a fortune for editor Chris Donald . |
| 7 | The environment that gave us opportunity was so dissimilar from that of the present as to seem more remote in time than it is . |
| 8 | The will that gave them title had been written on a torn-out page of a 1938 diary , the only paper available when the family learnt of their imminent fate in the gas chamber . |
| 9 | One member , Bill Corless , particularly liked the exercises that gave him suppleness and flow . |
| 10 | What else could lead researchers to test the ultimate laws of nature with machines bigger than the ancient state of Athens , or to seek to live in space , cast adrift from the world that gave them birth ? |
| 11 | Still lacking is the 625 MMU/cache , a redesign of an older model that gave it trouble and caused delays in the past . |
| 12 | It was not Billingsley 's physical size that provoked that fear , for I was of a size with him , nor was it his profession that gave me pause , but rather the aura of incipient violence that he radiated like a blast furnace . |
| 13 | The city that gave us Cheers certainly knows how to seduce visitors . |
| 14 | You remember those things : they littered the creeks and bywaters of harbours , slowly returning to nature , back to the trees and minerals that gave them life . |
| 15 | There must have been something about Sir Paul that gave him confidence . |
| 16 | His talents were demonstrated through a system that gave him opportunities and brought out the best in him . |