Example sentences of "[Wh pn] gave [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hercegovina achieved a degree of autonomy under Stevan Vukšić , who gave himself the title Duke ( 'Herceg' ) of St Sava ( 1448 ) in honour of the Serbian royal saint of the thirteenth century . |
| 2 | But he could justify this because there were other Scots besides Elder , drawn from the ranks of the leading politicians , who gave him the same message . |
| 3 | Indeed , it was the Moors who gave him the title by which he is best known , a contraction of the Arabic sid-y , meaning ‘ my lord ’ . |
| 4 | It is not known who gave him the letter but it was to set him off on the road to fame and fortune . |
| 5 | After all , the chairman of a transport conglomerate which had tipped hundreds of thousands into party funds would not thank a prime minister who gave him the same reward as a Blackpool entertainer . |
| 6 | It was James I who gave him the epithet ‘ judicious ’ and enjoined his son , the future King Charles 1 , to study his works . |
| 7 | A lonely childhood , a youthful longing for adventure , made it easy enough for Dick to lay aside his devotion to an almost legendary father and to dedicate himself to the service of a man who gave him the emotional security and incentive he had lacked for so long . |
| 8 | He had been given curious looks by the person who gave him the directions which show that he was a stranger as he was not recognised . |
| 9 | The pope sent cardinals , the senator of Rome and other nobles to escort him to St Peter 's and at the monastery of St Pancras the king was anointed by the cardinal bishop of Porto and crowned by the pope , who gave him the royal insignia . |
| 10 | The solicitors who gave him the court order for them to release all the details on that . |
| 11 | John was a catalyst who gave them the exposure . |
| 12 | gets past but he ca n't get past and Shrewsbury are breaking with it but they 're still inside their own half at the moment with Kevin who gave them the fighting chance with the original equalizer inside the first half . |
| 13 | Evelyn took up the pen and wrote her name quickly , then looked up at Miss Harker who gave her the briefest of nods and immediately turned her attention back to the rest of the company . |
| 14 | FERGIE is throwing a Christmas party for the people who gave her the courage to get over her fall from grace in the Royal Family . |
| 15 | THE grandfather of Cadbury Flake girl Rachel Brown last night hit out at the ‘ evil ’ person who gave her the designer drug Ecstasy . |
| 16 | They said they arrested us because Rachel had told her grandparents it was us who gave her the drug . |
| 17 | Rachel 's grandfather , former Liverpool docker Billy Brown , 80 , has condemned those who gave her the amphetamine-based , mind-bending drug as ‘ evil ’ . |
| 18 | ‘ Remember , Alec , the doctor in London who gave me the job did say Koraloona was a living laboratory for the treatment of polio . |
| 19 | The doctor who gave me the medication asked me , ‘ Why did you do it ? ’ and I could n't answer because I did n't know . |
| 20 | I ca n't recall who gave me the information . |
| 21 | It was Virginia who gave me the clue . |
| 22 | The man who gave us The Romans in Britain still knows how to make an audience feel uncomfortable . |
| 23 | He went there before you , as did your grandfather Cornelius Swift , who gave us the vases in the hallway and the stuffed baboon I had to throw out because of the fleas . |
| 24 | Apart from Fedorov , that fellow who gave us the slip the other evening might turn up . ’ |
| 25 | The man who gave us the meson |
| 26 | It was the capitalist who gave us the steam engine . |
| 27 | Hailed as the troubled comic genius who gave us the manic hotel-keeper Basil Fawlty and the Ministry of Silly Walks , he 's also the kingpin of the enduring Pythons and a multi-millionaire businessman . |
| 28 | Phrasal verbs come in for more attention with Phrasal Verbs Organiser from LTP ( by the man who gave us the First Certificate Organiser ) , while HarperCollins is publishing a Phrasal Verbs Workbook to accompany its dictionary . |
| 29 | She may be 82 , but the woman who gave us the breathalyser is still going strong . |
| 30 | ‘ The girl who gave you the message from Richter . |