Example sentences of "[noun] that [pron] had given " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It was in memory of those days that she had given The Bar its first and now largely forgotten name , Babylon . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It was clear from the sentencer 's observations that he had given careful consideration to these matters . |
| 8 | They won it for the outstanding service that they had given two clients , Comfort Cooling and PSA . |
| 9 | One of the miners , Jim Hunter , said last night that it had given the men a tremendous boost . |
| 10 | He would say , casually , to his wife later that night that he had given young Luke Bouverie a lift home . |
| 11 | O was only one of the many names that we had given him , but it was the one that had lasted . |
| 12 | Finally Mozart was able to report to his father that he had given a concert , and that his takings , before expenses , were 90 gulden . |
| 13 | But he was so scared of them getting his own father that he had given them no names at all , not even his own . |
| 14 | Looking at her emaciated body , it was a miracle that she had given birth to him in the first place . |
| 15 | From under her cloak , Maisie took the scroll of paper that he had given her back in August . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Han Dongfang , leader of the workers ' organization during the Tiananmen Square protests , who was held without trial for two years until released on bail for medical treatment in April , was exempted from prosecution on the grounds that he had given himself up , the agency said . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | For the first time since her escape she was very conscious of the fact that she had given birth only a month before and could even fancy she felt a pulling sensation where the fundament stitches had been . |
| 23 | I wanted to ask whether she thought her own life unwasted and whether the fact that she had given birth to me was sufficient justification for it . |