Example sentences of "that [noun] gave " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although he could not read or write , Burke learnt fast , but it was not until he was 18 , nearly 19 , that Parrish gave him his first fight . |
| 2 | Tindal C.J. in that case gave as examples of permissible retaking by A from the land of an innocent person , C , ( a ) where the goods have come there by accident ; ( b ) where they have been feloniously taken by B and A follows them to C's land ; ( c ) where C refuses to deliver up the goods or to make any answer to A's demand for them . |
| 3 | I think that erm the actual position er assured was that industry gave us a quotation in erm April nineteen ninety two which actually was somewhat higher than we 'd anticipated , but I 'm not sure that industry reyu viewed it as an increase because it was probably the first time they had formally quoted a price . |
| 4 | The foreknowledge of that fate gave her flesh a deliciously transient ripeness , a brief doomed perfection on which I loved to gorge myself . |
| 5 | I 'll admit that hearing about that sermon gave me a cowardly frisson of fear . |
| 6 | The two Chairmen of that Committee gave distinguished service , and I am sure that no one took my remarks to mean what the hon. Member for Glasgow , Cathcart ( Mr. Maxton ) says they meant . |
| 7 | It is not surprising , perhaps , that management gave prime concern to the two factors of cost and product quality over that of work-life quality . |
| 8 | After that Athelstan gave Tab and his two apprentices some pennies to take the coffin from the church and out to the old cemetery . |
| 9 | That bicycle gave me so much joy for many years . |
| 10 | that Julia wanted money more , more money , I mean he worked every hour that god gave at , so his money must of been decent , had to be |
| 11 | If furniture was supplied by a producer in 1988 with a certain type of filling and in 1992 a series of fires involving that filling gave rise to new safety features , the producer would be judged by safety standards in 1988 not 1992 . |
| 12 | We knew he 'd taken a survival kit and space blanket on his trip , and that knowledge gave us hope . |
| 13 | Leo Tolstoy asked the question , and in 1898 his remarkable book with that title gave his reply . |
| 14 | That offer gave me a lifeline . |
| 15 | But that kiss gave away the truth they had done their best to suppress . |
| 16 | After that Jack gave up the skiing altogether and I took it very steady . |
| 17 | Well I must say Mr Mayor I was gratefully assured by the answer that councillor gave earlier on about the er strenuous efforts the council is making to improve the security at the Kingsway cash point as I now gather it 's called . |
| 18 | At the time , that gesture aroused in me immense , inexplicable nostalgia , and that nostalgia gave birth to a woman I call Agnes . |
| 19 | After that Charles gave a wide berth to The Antelope , Chester Square , and until Clarissa 's return to London , even his own flat . |
| 20 | And yes , that fireplace gave me as much pleasure always as I had imagined it would on first sight . |
| 21 | But that book gave the astonishing statistic that in nineteen ninety , or nineteen eighty eight in the U S , more men died from breast cancer in the U S than women died from heterosexually contracted AIDS . |
| 22 | That school gave me my one chance of success . |
| 23 | An Act passed in that year gave power to the court to make an adoption order . |