Example sentences of "[noun] that [noun prp] had give " in BNC.
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| 1 | To that extent they ought to have wide circulation , except that they depend on the kind of painstaking preparation that Knussen had given them — the music sounded taught and nurtured rather than merely rehearsed . |
| 2 | It was the first order of its kind that Patrick had given , but both Mrs James and Sarah immediately moved towards the door . |
| 3 | He took out the remaining hand-grenade that Frankie had given him in New Orleans and slipped that into his inside pocket . |
| 4 | He did not fit the description of Jim Lancaster that Blanche had given him in the car that morning . |
| 5 | He was schooling a new st'lyan that Burun had given him . |
| 6 | Tessa sat at Bob 's desk in the empty department all afternoon , newspaper files stacked in front of her , trying intermittently to finish the job that Dyson had given her . |
| 7 | From this it followed that whoever was archbishop of Canterbury inherited all the powers that Gregory had given to Augustine , just as the pope inherited all the powers that Christ had given to St Peter . |
| 8 | From this it followed that whoever was archbishop of Canterbury inherited all the powers that Gregory had given to Augustine , just as the pope inherited all the powers that Christ had given to St Peter . |
| 9 | I was uncomfortable talking about the poems and Rory 's papers ; the bag lost on the train coming back from Lochgair at the start of the year had stayed lost , and — stuck with just the memory of the half-finished stuff that Janice had given me originally — I 'd given up on any idea I 'd ever had of trying to rescue Uncle Rory 's name from artistic oblivion , or discovering some great revelation in the texts . |
| 10 | The yellow silk square that Steve had given him was in his back pocket ; eight boxes of buckshot in each saddlebag ; binoculars in his combat jacket ; two rolls of inch-wide parcel tape ; fifty feet of light line ; steel hammer and hall a dozen steel spikes ; spare combat jacket and two pairs of jungle trousers ; for night work , black cotton roll-neck , black tracksuit bottoms and black cotton gloves ; slacks and a light jumper for Mariana . |
| 11 | Poindexter , although he had cautioned North not to ‘ talk in plain language ’ , confessed that he had never used the three-by-five cards covered with codes that North had given him ; he just carried them in his briefcase . |
| 12 | They found the picture of Jill that Sayeed had given me more than eighteen months before . |
| 13 | She was so near to tears that her only outlet was to tell the whole sorry tale , including the news that Joanna had given her the day before . |
| 14 | But she had n't forgotten the kiss that Julius had given her . |
| 15 | At the slow , jerking speed of city traffic at night , he drove toward the address that Ashdown had given him for the rendezvous . |
| 16 | And I was reaching some conclusions about the choice that Gharr had given me . |
| 17 | Bernice tried to recall the initial lessons that Cheryl had given her , soon after the TARDIS had landed on Belial . |
| 18 | It was divided into two parts , her own list of household requirements , and the list that Isabel had given to her , which read : |
| 19 | It was the tiny jade sculpture of Kuan Yin that DeVore had given Gesell only the week before . |
| 20 | But whatever else was lost , the impetus that Winckelmann had given to Greek scholarship in Germany survived ; and if we wish to understand its subsequent history and the remarkable growth of German classical scholarship as a whole , we should not forget his formative contribution , even though much of the impending development can hardly be traced directly back to him . |
| 21 | Li told Maude that China had given " high acclaim " to recent " friendly gestures " by the UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher . |
| 22 | In return , I gave him one of twelve tiny mouth-organs that Hohner had given me . |