Example sentences of "[verb] [that] [pron] gave [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She says that they gave them every assistance possible . |
| 2 | Despite her eccentricity and the fact that they could n't help laughing at her , the Girls would readily acknowledge that she gave them as much , if not more , affection than they had received from their own parents . |
| 3 | Legend has it that the mandarin was so grateful to Earl Grey for services rendered that he gave him his secret tea recipe , to keep mind , body and spirit together in perfect harmony . |
| 4 | His best-known work , Tetbury church , Gloucestershire ( 1777–81 ) , is one of the most elegant examples of late eighteenth-century Gothic and was widely admired at the time , the poet William Mason [ q.v. ] , for example , commenting that it gave him ‘ the very highest opinion ’ of Hiorne 's ‘ Gothic taste ’ ; and his approach to Gothic design also appears to have embraced at least the rudiments of scholarship as well as its decorative appeal . |
| 5 | Bacteriologists immediately recognised that it gave them a unique opportunity to study the evolutionary processes governing bacterial resistance — as a synthetic antibiotic it could not be influenced by preexisting resistance genes . |
| 6 | I guess that it gave her a sense of independence and allowed her personality , which was fairly dominant , to develop . |
| 7 | I thought that she gave them education to add to er , to the poor . |
| 8 | I suppose I should be flattered that you gave me an ‘ A ’ — though I 'd be better pleased if you thought enough of me to send my flowers in person , instead of by remote control . |