Example sentences of "what gave [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I closed the gap , but he had gained at the start and that is what gave him the advantage at the finish . |
| 2 | What gave him the right to have it ? |
| 3 | That was what gave him his undoubted power in politics , and his loose organisation called the " Left is Right Group " — kept carefully informal so that it could not be proscribed by any of the major parties — commanded the allegiance of a handful of M.P . |
| 4 | What gave him pause was not lack of sympathy for the enterprise but the appalling difficulty of handling his grandmother in relation to Leon . |
| 5 | It was not a very good French side , but they showed many of the basic national virtues and that was what gave them their narrow victory . |
| 6 | That 's what gave them their |
| 7 | He 's certainly saying I find a pattern here because he 's using it , as his pattern to understand and I only just said at the beginning what the , makes the Jews Jewish , what gave them their national character and their , their ethnic identity . |
| 8 | that 's what gave them the sort of , the idea to set it up but I mean Aston is good because now we 're n now we 're not |
| 9 | The rules and routines of the institution made her feel secure and offered her plentiful opportunities to do what gave her the most satisfaction , to comply . |
| 10 | She was always so in control about everything which is what gave her this air of being much older than just twenty-seven . |
| 11 | What gave her the greatest satisfaction was the water , now bloodstained by the final , flamboyant exhibition of the setting sun . |
| 12 | ‘ So that 's what gave me away . |
| 13 | The irony is that what gave me and other lesbians the |
| 14 | Sometimes I think that 's what gave me the strength to deal with all that 's happened to me since , ’ she says . |
| 15 | What gave me a thrill — why , outside the low door , two men were unloading something from a cart ; it was the carcass of a bear ! |
| 16 | That 's what gave me the idea . ’ |
| 17 | That was what gave me the due . |
| 18 | What gave me away ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ What gave you the idea we were going to ask you about his personal life ? |
| 20 | ‘ What gave you that idea ? ’ |
| 21 | ‘ What gave you the notion for this ? ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Yes — no doubt she is — but what gave you the idea that I have such a plan in mind ? ’ |
| 23 | What gave you that impression ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ No — what gave you that idea ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Look , if you do n't want to tell me who you are , or what gave you the horrors , then do n't . |
| 26 | And mum always used to say that 's what gave you that hernia that walking all the way for food ! |
| 27 | The events have , to conclude , all the trappings of a liturgical ceremony rather than a military exercise , and that is almost certainly what lies behind the story , and what gave it its origins . |
| 28 | What gave it away ? |
| 29 | They stand condemned by the very tenets of their religions unless that religion is in itself a perverse and cancerous development which will in time kill what gave it birth in any case . |