Example sentences of "that [pron] give [pers pn] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She is n't important , never was important — except that she gave me a chance to get close to you again . ’ |
| 2 | And I thought er and er I had wee tablets that you gave me a while ago , Brusdeximit |
| 3 | If you do not keep a dream diary , I strongly recommend that you give it a try . |
| 4 | Now you could say that was perhaps maintenance , but it 's all been cleaned , it 's been repointed , there are new lanterns , they 've done all the paintwork and they made such a beautiful job of it , it 's really almost for the craftsmanship and the care that we gave them a certificate for that as well . |
| 5 | They have asked that we give them a similar quantity from each department . |
| 6 | He astounded his American masters by demanding that they give him a more worthwhile job or he would be on his way home . |
| 7 | But while the large number of coins means that they give us a large quantity of information , their small size and the consequent brevity of their inscriptions greatly restricts the level of interpretation we can make from them compared with , say , a lengthy edict of a Roman emperor fully inscribed on stone . |
| 8 | Safety validation of contractors was another item th that they give you a briefing of the meeting |
| 9 | I think that day that they gave me a lift home . |
| 10 | I 've told you that it gives me a terrific edge in any sale where Kemp 's a bidder . |
| 11 | The definition is adopted , of course , not merely for the reason that it gives us a further explanation of the difference between causal items and their effects . |
| 12 | If you are stuck in a boring job , concentrate on the fact that it is providing money for your needs and your pleasures and that it gives you a measure of independence . |
| 13 | I believe that day implanted in me a life-long craving for barbaric splendour , for savagery and colour and the throb of drums , and that it gave me a lasting veneration for long-established custom and ritual , from which would derive later a deep-seated resentment of Western innovations in other lands , and a distaste for the drab uniformity of the modern world . |
| 14 | Bacteriologists immediately recognised that it gave them a unique opportunity to study the evolutionary processes governing bacterial resistance — as a synthetic antibiotic it could not be influenced by preexisting resistance genes . |
| 15 | I 'm sure she enjoyed it and that it gave her a purpose in life . |
| 16 | I guess that it gave her a sense of independence and allowed her personality , which was fairly dominant , to develop . |
| 17 | She loved Nick , loved him so much sometimes that it gave her a pain , but she hated to be told to do something she was going to do anyway . |