Example sentences of "that give [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Exasperated , I told her that given his behaviour , it was far more likely that her son would bite my dog !
2 I had a friend who suffered from twisted testicles so I made sure part of my sponsorship arrangement is that I 'm provided with decent shorts with inner briefs that give me support .
3 We did pain relief and I did all my exercises , had films , talks , books that give me advice and everything , dead good they are .
4 He says unkind things that give me pain , Harry .
5 It 's the small details and unusual pieces like these that give their home its character and strongly individual style .
6 they 're not involved , the people the people that give their approval are the people that want it !
7 At the Stella Artois Grass Court Championships , he showed once again , that give him grass , a ‘ bat ’ , and he is surely the best striker of a ball in the world .
8 I 'm sure it was that give him trouble .
9 In an organization , they may rarely come to the attention of a predominantly male management in ways that give them power and encouragement .
10 But fundamentally , of course , there is a massive overlap between the two movements in terms both of the issues and of the values and philosophical concerns that give our work any meaning at all .
11 It is clearly seen in water and grass in the milking cows and in the cows that give us meat .
12 In the meditative life , we exchange the worldly things that give us delight for the full commitment of loving God above all .
13 It 's not just synthetic ingredients that give your skin a boost — many modern products now contain plant extracts which have been used for their stimulating and soothing properties for thousands of years
14 This area is the Coulin Forest , bounded by roads that give it detachment from other high ground , its mountains forming a compact group but individually having distinction of character and outline , some being of arresting appearance .
15 A new bank account that give you independence and freedom to choose how to organise your money the way you want , when you want .
16 I think more than anything I enjoy the freedom and there are two things in life that give you freedom .
17 On the face of it , this is very alarming and seems to imply that giving your baby cow 's milk will have her haemorrhaging blood .
18 Some of the smokers were aware of his campaign against passive smoking — the kind that gave him cancer in smoke-tarred clubs .
19 Belonging here defined him , made him free to wander , because here he had roots to return to , an anchor that gave him stability and a sense of permanence .
20 It was this last that gave him pause , for , he was to say , ‘ Although I had no knowledge of it — that place where the Twelve Judges sit — I believed that I had long since dreamed it , and I knew it for a place of great finality and immense power .
21 There was a purposeful look now in her eyes that gave him pause .
22 In the end it was the regular-footer Elkerton 's ability to hit for six every type of wave — leg-breaks , off-breaks , googlies , head-severing bouncers — that the Pacific could bowl at him that gave him supremacy .
23 It drifted and swirled about him , making him peaceful and tired , until his sense of loss began to go and the night was no longer awesome , for he had the protection of a Callanish eagle near him , and that gave him peace to rest and sleep at last …
24 There must have been something about Sir Paul that gave him confidence .
25 One member , Bill Corless , particularly liked the exercises that gave him suppleness and flow .
26 What else could lead researchers to test the ultimate laws of nature with machines bigger than the ancient state of Athens , or to seek to live in space , cast adrift from the world that gave them birth ?
27 The will that gave them title had been written on a torn-out page of a 1938 diary , the only paper available when the family learnt of their imminent fate in the gas chamber .
28 You remember those things : they littered the creeks and bywaters of harbours , slowly returning to nature , back to the trees and minerals that gave them life .
29 This is the daddy of all geysirs , the one that gave its name to the ( now better-known ) hot-water spouts elsewhere in the world .
30 If there was a choice of department within a region , we chose the one that gave its nurse practitioners most responsibility as we assumed that its nurse practitioners would fulfil the role most completely , enabling us to examine the role more effectively .
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