Example sentences of "[vb past] [that] [pron] [verb] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lost in his thoughts , he hardly realized that he had given up folding the pamphlets . |
| 2 | When Derek got the run they all cheered and a reporter commented that they had given him a great welcome , but could not possibly have known the significance of the run . |
| 3 | He replied that he had given it verbally to a police sergeant , but that he must have forgotten about it . |
| 4 | When our first Report on the primary stages was submitted to Mr Baker at the end of September 1988 , he felt that we had given insufficient emphasis to the teaching of grammar . |
| 5 | He adds : ‘ I also felt that I wanted to give the love that I felt for her in the way she needs love to be given . ’ |
| 6 | He felt that he had given enough . |
| 7 | This attitude was bitterly criticized by republican politicians who felt that he had given an enormous fillip to a rebellion that would otherwise have run out of steam . |
| 8 | She felt that she had given the whole thing away , that the Hare-woman 's eyes would be able to read all her thoughts from her face and that single word . |
| 9 | Whereas Charles Paris , who knew that he had given one of the best performances of his career in The Hooded Owl , was a name that the punters would n't know from a bar of soap . |
| 10 | Now he knew that he had given her what he had , and no one could give more . |
| 11 | I knew that he had given about 4,000 volumes , but I had kept this information to myself . |
| 12 | The Queen commending his work , not only for the pains therein taken , said that nothing had given her so great delectation . |
| 13 | Who said that I had given thee up . |
| 14 | ‘ I said that I liked to give the islanders the impression that I lived alone . ’ |
| 15 | Several women friends of Waddell said that he had given them within days of the murder large sums of money ; and a barman to whom Waddell had given £1000 for safe keeping said Waddell had told him he had won a packet on the horses . |
| 16 | The talks were going very well and Smith said that he wanted to give us a holiday and take us to Victoria Falls in his plane . |
| 17 | In Committee , the Minister said that he wanted to give a fair wind to employee-management buy-outs . |
| 18 | As a result of the meeting Devi Lal apparently believed he had the Prime Minister 's approval to reinstate his son , although Singh subsequently denied that he had given his approval to such a move . |
| 19 | Although Romulo denied that he had given such an unequivocal pledge , Ramos stated on Sept. 15 that he would not pursue the Philippine claim to sovereignty . |
| 20 | The discussion of this chapter so far might perhaps be summed up by noting that Lakatos aimed to give a rationalist account of science but failed , whilst Kuhn denied that he aimed to give a relativist account of science but gave one nevertheless . |
| 21 | She was detained because the authorities suspected that she had given a Tibetan nationalist flag to a Buddhist monk from Gyurme monastery . |
| 22 | Dad and I went in and Mr Vulcan explained that he wished to give me the harmonium and that there was a clean bed upstairs if we wanted it . |