Example sentences of "[noun] [that] [pron] [vb past] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jean Campbell , in 1817 , was an uneducated deaf person without any speech who could only write the initials of her name in reverse order , eg. C.J. She was an unmarried woman who had three children by different men , one of whom at the time of her arrest in April 1817 had been living with her as a common law husband but who had a few days earlier taken off the ring that he had given to her and which she wore on her finger in the fashion of a married woman , and had left home . |
| 2 | Erm on , on yours in fact I could n't check sequence erm on the programme that you 'd given me because I did n't , I , I had know way of telling whether we did get a clash . |
| 3 | It could be extended to look even longer , and presented with the words that we wanted to give you ‘ a small gift ’ or a gift ‘ big enough for two ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | McPhee ( 48 ) told the trial that he had given the dog away to a man he knew vaguely outside the track as Shiloh was no use to him . |
| 6 | He retained an affection for Paris and a gratitude for the intellectual advantages that it had given him to which he later referred as pope . |
| 7 | It was in memory of those days that she had given The Bar its first and now largely forgotten name , Babylon . |
| 8 | Some spoke of the challenging messages that they wanted to give out when they walked down the street in a particular outfit . |
| 9 | The first book , A Plea for the Faithful Restoration of our Ancient Churches , was based on a lecture that he had given and came out in 1850 . |
| 10 | Feradach whispered to Oisin that you had to give credit where it was due ; Tealtaoich really did this sort of thing extremely well . |
| 11 | The room that he 'd given her was smaller than his own , but she got a bigger wardrobe . |
| 12 | It has a weird effect , so bad one day that they had to give me valium to take off my bandages because I could n't handle it any more . |
| 13 | It was clear from the sentencer 's observations that he had given careful consideration to these matters . |
| 14 | They won it for the outstanding service that they had given two clients , Comfort Cooling and PSA . |
| 15 | At least he was spared the knowledge that he 'd given the doge 's ring to a heartless little bitch who 'd just taken him for a ride . ’ |
| 16 | One of the miners , Jim Hunter , said last night that it had given the men a tremendous boost . |
| 17 | He would say , casually , to his wife later that night that he had given young Luke Bouverie a lift home . |
| 18 | O was only one of the many names that we had given him , but it was the one that had lasted . |
| 19 | Finally Mozart was able to report to his father that he had given a concert , and that his takings , before expenses , were 90 gulden . |
| 20 | But he was so scared of them getting his own father that he had given them no names at all , not even his own . |
| 21 | Looking at her emaciated body , it was a miracle that she had given birth to him in the first place . |
| 22 | From under her cloak , Maisie took the scroll of paper that he had given her back in August . |
| 23 | He liked the Shah personally , but , as he later acknowledged , he had been so intent on promoting British exports to Iran that he had given too little weight to many of the country 's problems . |
| 24 | For all the thought that she had given to his ordinary life , Johnny could have been a milkman , for all she cared , or an Insurance broker working in the City , whose daily brush with danger was in trying to cross the road . |
| 25 | He 'd picked up some cream that they 'd given me for a skin rash , stuck it under my blindfold and said , in a curious high-pitched waver , ‘ Champignons ? ’ |
| 26 | The Tretyakov Gallery would release hundreds of the works that he had given from its stores , and then the museum of the Russian Avant-garde would open . |
| 27 | He was laughing at her , yet in such a nice way that she had to give in and join in the laughter . |
| 28 | The road had for so long been the only goal that I 'd given no thought to anything beyond . |
| 29 | Even before the report went to the printers , the Ombudsman , Sir Anthony Barrawclough , was told by the DTI 's most senior officer that it intended to give its own view , in a separate document , on the responsibilities of regulators . |
| 30 | Alf was able to play on either flank of our defence and indeed , on occasions early in his career , in various positions further forward , but it was at left-back that he settled to give of his best from 1958 to 1961 . |