Example sentences of "[that] [pron] [vb past] give [pron] " in BNC.

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1 The Queen commending his work , not only for the pains therein taken , said that nothing had given her so great delectation .
2 Nor that I wished to give myself in life
3 But I do now sometimes wish that I had given them more time when I did have them . ’
4 I asked Toby to do me a favour and tell the Fleet Street ‘ dirty mac brigade ’ , who covered crime and other seedy activities , that I had given him an exclusive .
5 It was true that I had given him life but I had not given him love .
6 Who said that I had given thee up .
7 Saturday morning , and once again a fair and breezy day , so fair that I decided to give myself a holiday from writing , and go straight after breakfast to pick up the supplies I would need for the weekend .
8 ‘ It was then that I decided to give it a try .
9 ‘ I 've always been very aware that I needed to give something back after this experience and when I read about the appeal for people prepared to give homes to the Bosnians , I decided it was time I stepped in . ’
10 Feeling that she had given her due of politeness to the curate , the due exacted by her mother and elder sister , she pattered onto Maurice , and , after having a bit of a poke round , shot across the connecting gangplank onto Grace .
11 What was even more satisfying was knowing that she had given him that same lesson , not once but twice , this morning when she 'd stunned him by agreeing to see his grandmother on her own time , and last night , when she 'd turned away his advances , and never mind all that pretence about his not being interested .
12 She passed it off as a joke , furious that she had given herself away .
13 Had n't he understood that she had given herself to him for the only reason that made any sense to her .
14 She did n't realise that she 'd given me the greatest gift of all .
15 The frustration of what she could only identify as love for him , plus the fact that she 'd given herself to him so completely , mixed with her suspicion that he was still using her in some way to further his own undisclosed purposes , had engendered a turmoil of emotions within her , among which , she was ashamed and horrified to realise , lurked a certain impulse to exercise violence on his person .
16 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 .
17 O was only one of the many names that we had given him , but it was the one that had lasted .
18 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 ’ .
19 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 ? ’
20 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 .
21 The final score was 4–3 to Royston with everyone content that they had given their best .
22 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 .
23 Edward Gillespie says that they wanted to give their racegoers something extra and more excitement … and when times are hard this is one way of getting more owners into the sport
24 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 .
25 The record of this parliament is incomplete , but the recollection of contemporaries seems unequivocal , and in later , more difficult , circumstances parliament was to be reminded more than once that it had given its assent to the war .
26 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 .
27 It was when he attempted to argue , ‘ I would n't be bothered if I never had another ride in the National , ’ that he began to give himself away .
28 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 .
29 The room that he 'd given her was smaller than his own , but she got a bigger wardrobe .
30 All that he had to give her with his mind and body was sucked out of him into her .
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