Example sentences of "that [pron] gave [pron] [art] " 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 | I suppose I should be flattered that you gave me an ‘ A ’ — though I 'd be better pleased if you thought enough of me to send my flowers in person , instead of by remote control . |
| 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 | I think that day that they gave me a lift home . |
| 6 | She says that they gave them every assistance possible . |
| 7 | But anyway we , they must have been so impressed by the , the order that they got , that they gave us the agency for Galashiels and Selkirk for the Austin . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Their reaction was so encouraging that it gave me the strength to carry on . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I 'm sure she enjoyed it and that it gave her a purpose in life . |
| 12 | I guess that it gave her a sense of independence and allowed her personality , which was fairly dominant , to develop . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Another experience was when he was praying before the crucifix in San Damiano and it seemed to him that it gave him the message , " Build my church " , which he immediately interpreted quite literally as , " Save this church from crumbling into ruins " . |
| 15 | His main diversion was music , which ‘ did relieve his drooping spirits , compose his distracted thoughts and raised his weary soul so far above the earth , that it gave him an earnest of the joys of heaven ’ . |
| 16 | So it 's a very great honour and privilege for me to address you today because at the end it may be difficult for you to understand but when I return to South Africa , and forgive me for speaking personally I also realize the full meaning of the support of British trade unions and the labour movement and the churches because it was because of your political material and particularly in the case of the G M B , financial and material support that it gave us the means to do what some of us wanted to do about our country and our situation , and bring about change if we could peacefully . |
| 17 | Ricky was so furious with Perdita for deliberately sabotaging her scholarship that he gave her the sack . |
| 18 | These days she was glad of any invitation to proximity , and curled up beside him so promptly that he gave her an amused sidelong glance as he took her hand in his . |
| 19 | Frankenstein created a man but he was so disgusted by its sight that he gave it no name . |