Example sentences of "that [pron] [noun sg] give [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One formed the impression that its editor gave his readers what he thought they ought to read rather than what they might want or enjoy . |
| 2 | His food goes in a corner manger and a brick goes in with it ; the weight of the brick means he ca n't throw the manger about and we can only assume that its bulk gives him something to think about . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , he would do what he could to help her , and would frankly face the fact that her presence gave him enormous pleasure . |
| 4 | She responds to a comment by the monk on how she appears to have passed the night in sexual " labour " by bemoaning what she suffers as a wife , implying that her husband gives her no pleasure in bed and is mean with his money . |
| 5 | Howard moves his fingers over the smoothness of the smooth facets , the complex texture of the hatched ones , scarcely able to absorb the pleasure that their alternation gives him . |
| 6 | GRAHAM Finney does not mind that his hobby gives him the needle … for it helps him create textile masterpieces . |
| 7 | Mungo noticed that his window gave him a view of the field and the edge of the forest . |
| 8 | As the warrior Solor he possessed neither the exotic glamour of Ruzimatov nor the romantic height of Cope — and a dispassionate viewer would admit that his turban gave him an unfortunately gnome-like appearance . |
| 9 | Naturally , my father would have felt this loss keenly ; but to make matters worse the usual comfort a father has in these situations — that is , the notion that his son gave his life gloriously for king and country — was sullied by the fact that my brother had perished in a particularly infamous manoeuvre . |
| 10 | As we learn to give ourselves more time to pause before activity , we will slowly become more and more aware of the warning signals that our body gives us when it is under stress . |
| 11 | Or suppose that your husband gave you a cheque for £15,000 ; would n't that be worth a hug ? |
| 12 | Make your title search four or five days or a week before completion ( five days if you think there may be a pending registration ) , to enable you to complete well within the period of priority that your search gives you — but remember that to gain full protection you must not only complete the purchase within that period , as with unregistered title , but must also within the same period lodge your application to register the transfer or mortgage . |