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

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1 He took out the remaining hand-grenade that Frankie had given him in New Orleans and slipped that into his inside pocket .
2 And I was reaching some conclusions about the choice that Gharr had given me .
3 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 .
4 Then I discovered that Frank had given his version , so it seemed to me that there were two laws in existence .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 The forged document , the so-called " Donation of Constantine " , which was drawn up before the mid-eighth century , when the papacy was anxious to use and control the Frankish leaders , claimed that Constantine had given his imperial palace of the Lateran and dominion over " the city of Rome and all the places , cities and provinces of Italy and the West " to Pope Sylvester , handing the pope his imperial insignia and symbols — the lance , sceptre , orb , imperial standards , purple-scarlet mantle , imperial pallium and tunic .
8 He was schooling a new st'lyan that Burun had given him .
9 They found the picture of Jill that Sayeed had given me more than eighteen months before .
10 I told him that Jo had given me the cash , though I was suitably vague as to exactly how I recovered her lost property .
11 He did not fit the description of Jim Lancaster that Blanche had given him in the car that morning .
12 At the slow , jerking speed of city traffic at night , he drove toward the address that Ashdown had given him for the rendezvous .
13 " She was aware that God had given her much ; physical strength and mental strength .
14 He said to me that God had given him a chance to expiate his past life , and that was what he was going to do .
15 It took a long talk from one of the Sisters of Charity to make him realise that God had given him the gift of his voice and he was to use his gift with religion to help these people .
16 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 .
17 The cat had probably been in the vestry and undone the parcel they were in , though it was just as likely that Sophia had given her one to play with .
18 On July 12 Guechi claimed that Madani had given him a mandate to lead the FIS .
19 In return , I gave him one of twelve tiny mouth-organs that Hohner had given me .
20 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 .
21 But she had n't forgotten the kiss that Julius had given her .
22 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 .
23 Bernice tried to recall the initial lessons that Cheryl had given her , soon after the TARDIS had landed on Belial .
24 For a moment Nutty was afraid that he knew that Hoomey had given his secret away ; but he was not apathetic anymore .
25 It was housed in a block that included flats-for the use of repertory company members , and it was here that Crawford managed to give his chaperon the slip for a couple of days , feeling that at sixteen he was old enough to look after himself .
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