Example sentences of "that [noun] gave " in BNC.

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1 The man with golden goal touch at the County Ground is still Craig Maskell … the two hundred and fifty thousand pounds that Swindon gave Reading for him is beginning to look chicken feed … 15 goals this season … the last two came last week against Southend … tomorrow he 's off to Ashton gate to shoot Bristol City down …
2 It was in this spirit that Bernard gave Jane , at eighteen , a professional 's Hasselblad camera and appointed her company photographer , the first of their children to work for the company .
3 No one denied that ICI gave them first-class products .
4 It was quite a performance that Twomey gave every evening .
5 The title ‘ administrative criminology ’ is of significance in that it is the title that Vold gave to the classical criminology of Beccaria and Bentham ( as we saw in Chapter 1 ) .
6 Oh , here we got the the lists that Connie gave me ,
7 the lists that Connie gave me ,
8 The injunction that Churchill gave Hugh Dalton , in asking him to oversee the Special Operations Executive , was ‘ to set Europe ablaze ’ .
9 A somewhat different tone began to emerge relatively quickly , particularly in an address that Gorbachev gave to British members of parliament later the same month .
10 It was at last year 's parade that Elham gave him the idea when she said : ‘ I wish I could enjoy what I am experiencing here , but back in my mind there are too many innocent children left with no hopes and no future .
11 I 'd like to ask you to er , read it through , and the application form that Jeff gave you yesterday , yes ?
12 The opening in Paris at the Grand Palais is scheduled to take place on the centenary of the one-man show that Vollard gave Cezanne in September 1895 , the only major exhibition of his work during the artist 's lifetime .
13 ‘ I did not want things that Picasso gave Douglas and me coming on the market , and Billy very decently gave me the drawing ’ .
14 His conversation had the inconsequence that Chekhov gave to his older characters and it was larded with Russian proverbs , many of which he was suspected of having invented himself .
15 ‘ Talking of addresses , you mentioned that Angy gave hers to Delia . ’
16 ‘ Can you remember when it was that Angy gave Delia her address ? ’
17 In spite of what Eddie said , it 's possible that Angy gave it to Delia but if Eddie 's right , then it looks very much as if Delia — or someone else — took it .
18 These researchers presented a group of subjects with a verbal dichotic listening task and noted that subjects gave more rightward than leftward eye movements as well as showing the usual right ear advantage on the dichotic task .
19 While some investigators found that oxygen gave direct symptom relief , others suggested that any benefit was mostly the placebo effect of air on the rhinopharynx .
20 In many ways that act gave a pattern to my life — the deep need to straddle the east-west in everything I do .
21 I am , however , inclined to believe that the authentic Hecataeus could not have stated , as Josephus makes him state , that Alexander gave the Samaritan territory free of tax to the Jews .
22 The spectre of quotas was the reason that businessmen gave for opposing the civil-rights bill the president vetoed last October .
23 It was said that Gertrude gave him the final result .
24 Kim and Pak visited Moscow in March 1949 for discussions with Stalin and it was evidently on this occasion — if Nikita Khrushchev 's recollections are reliable — that Stalin gave somewhat grudging approval to a future North Korean attack , on the assumption that there would be a significant rebellion in the south .
25 After all , days before the invasion surprised President Bush , his ambassador , presumably not speaking just for herself , told Saddam in so many words that Washington gave him the green light on Kuwait .
26 I am pleased to say that Stratford gave the lead to other societies …
27 It was such a desultory question that Ruth gave him the filthiest look she could muster .
28 It is significant that Buchan gave his middle-aged hero , the Glasgow grocer Dickson McCunn , a literary ancestry : .
29 Both students and lecturers said that they felt that lectures gave an opportunity for personal contact .
30 It has long been recognized that Pausanias gave a Herodotean dress and added some comments of his own to what must ultimately be a third-century B.C. account of the Celtic attack ( O. Regenbogen , P.-W. , s.v .
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