Example sentences of "that [be] [pron] give [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | I have so looked forward to it , making all the things with Matey , and thinking of what we shall do with the money we make — which is stupid really , when I know that I could so easily give them so much more — But that would be nothing , for what I have done with Matey has been done by me , and not by Papa , for that is what giving them his money would mean . |
2 | I closed the gap , but he had gained at the start and that is what gave him the advantage at the finish . |
3 | That 's what gave them their |
4 | 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 |
5 | ‘ So that 's what gave me away . |
6 | Sometimes I think that 's what gave me the strength to deal with all that 's happened to me since , ’ she says . |
7 | That 's what gave me the idea . ’ |
8 | And mum always used to say that 's what gave you that hernia that walking all the way for food ! |
9 | That 's what gives them the power . |
10 | They 're always the ones that are a bit more boisterous , whereas the older ones you have to physically carry on in the shop floor , the students do n't , and that 's what gives them a bad name . |
11 | And that 's what gives you the pain right at the front . |
12 | ‘ That 's me giving him a chance . |
13 | That was what gave me the due . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 . |