Example sentences of "[verb] that [pron] gave [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | QUAKERS manager Ray Hankin revealed that he gave his players ‘ a bit of a roasting ’ after their fighting 1–0 win at Valley Parade . |
| 2 | She says that they gave them every assistance possible . |
| 3 | He was ‘ permitted to put in a long day 's work for his Master , and it can be truly said that he gave his best ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But nobody attacked him for his information about France ; which shows that he gave none . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I can only hope that we gave her sufficient help and support when the problems came along . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I guess that it gave her a sense of independence and allowed her personality , which was fairly dominant , to develop . |
| 11 | But let us not forget that he gave his life in an act of selfless devotion to the race . |
| 12 | Whilst there , the Manager was so impressed by the superior service Rentokil offered that he gave her free tickets for ‘ Les Miserables ’ . |
| 13 | I thought that she gave them education to add to er , to the poor . |
| 14 | 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 . |