Example sentences of "as his [noun sg] gave " in BNC.

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1 Nijkamp of the Netherlands spent the previous night in a Paris hospital as his wife gave birth to their first child , got back at 5am for some sleep and went on to paddle to last place .
2 However , her expression of anger kept him in touch with that unrecognized part of himself , just as his control gave her a much needed boundary .
3 We need have no reservation that such memories , not least the sounds , entered deeply into the young boy 's consciousness , as his mother gave vent to her distress in English and her native Yiddish , as well as symbolically rending her clothes and chanting the dirges .
4 Ranulf nodded and promptly vomited , leaning over his horse 's head as his stomach gave vent to its sudden fear .
5 All heads turned as his father gave him such a clip that he landed in the muddy , freshly dug grave behind him .
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