Example sentences of "that gave [pers pn] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leading Scot was Adam Hunter after a 72 for 291 that gave him a share of 13th place and a cheque for £5,783 . |
| 2 | But World War I gave him the chance to stand on internationalist ground with an uncompromising fervour and personal courage that gave him a status denied to most of the others , whose work lay in the factories and in the shop stewards ' movement . |
| 3 | Because she was beautiful , with her flaxen blonde hair tumbling down her back and those unusual dark eyes and eyebrows that gave her a look of the exotic . |
| 4 | Hidden away , pushed to the darker recesses of her mind , it was a tangible presence that gave her a degree of comfort in the terrible loneliness of her marriage . |
| 5 | Inspection of Enid 's diary , however , showed that there was very little in her week that gave her a sense of achievement or pleasure . |
| 6 | I turned round and there , six feet away , was the edge of a crater twenty feet across ; that gave me a shock . |
| 7 | ‘ When I was fired at , he missed and that gave me a love of life . ’ |
| 8 | And there was something in the dusty black of her coat , the half-wild scrawny look of her , that gave me a clue . |
| 9 | Any news that gave me a chance to see her again was good news . |
| 10 | It was something that gave me a framework for my experience , and in some ways kind of saved my life really because it gave me words to see that I was n't isolated , that there was a movement — it was very real and it was very gut . |
| 11 | ‘ Gosh , that gave me a scare ! ’ breathed Shirley , and Heather nodded . |
| 12 | Well that gave me a start of course , so immediately I got a warrant out , and he , some while afterwards he was picked up in London . |
| 13 | In addition , the finished cloth had a natural , peasanty look , often full of flaws and slubs , that gave it a charm and character which coincided perfectly with the image Laura sought . |
| 14 | The house it penned was old and brown with a porch that gave it a sort of potbelly . |
| 15 | Newcastle manager Keegan admitted : ‘ We created a lot of chances but it has to be said that it was a dubious penalty that gave us a goal . |