Example sentences of "that [pron] [noun] had given " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not only that my grandmother had given birth to and brought up eight children , and with the help of a Mrs Pipkin ( whose wages were ten shillings a week and an egg ) run a large house for many years ; there was the shop , and shops in those days were by no means labour-saving . |
| 2 | He did not know that her experience had given her great strength of feeling . |
| 3 | This may not appear surprising ; it was certainly a serious drawback for Mary as queen that her upbringing had given her only second-hand knowledge of her country . |
| 4 | He told Mrs Edwards that her son had given his life in the service of humanity . |
| 5 | She seemed embarrassed and muttered that her mother had given Terry the photograph , but before she said any more Mrs Redmond began to ask Joe about the war news . |
| 6 | In an address to the Pakistani National Assembly and Senate in December 1985 President Zia formally denied that his country had given any bases to the United States . |
| 7 | Though he spoke in Russian , the language that his parents had given him , he was from without the walls that bounded their experience . |
| 8 | During the game the FRAMPTON ROVERS full back heard over the tannoy that his wife had given birth to a healthy baby boy . |
| 9 | He also denied that his wife had given him any details of who she was supposed to be meeting at TVL at the time of the party . |
| 10 | Any way he had the money that his dad had given him . |
| 11 | I said that they must n't be sad because he had , after all , crammed so much into his short life , that his parties had given enormous pleasure to so many people , that Conor was the sort of person Jack Kerouac might have loved , he was one of the ones who are mad to live , desirous of everything at the same time , ‘ the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing , but burn , burn , burn , like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars ’ . |
| 12 | You said that his estate had given Gibson permission to use Jimi 's signature . |
| 13 | He was disappointed , too , that his father had given up artistic ideals in the pursuit of money . |
| 14 | It was also believed that Menelik visited his father Solomon , and on his departure contrived to substitute a copy of the Ark of the Covenant that his father had given him for the original , which he then carried off to Aksum . |