Example sentences of "[noun] [subord] he gave his " in BNC.

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1 The series had attracted capacity crowds and Sir Edward faced a packed hall when he gave his address , ‘ At the Heart of Europe ’ .
2 Culpeper achieved fame as he gave his name to a certain type of tripod microscope made in the early eighteenth century , but it is not at all clear that he was its inventor .
3 The lad looked his father straight in the eye as he gave his blunt answer .
4 Law pessimistically told the King that he would in any case alienate half of his subjects , Unionists if he gave his assent to Home Rule and Liberals if he did not .
5 Its American parent makes watches in Little Rock , Arkansas , whose favourite son wore a Timex ticker when he gave his State of the Union address .
6 And there was silence apart from the sounds of the operation itself and the clipped tones of the surgeon as he gave his orders .
7 On this view , a doctor could avoid liability only if he could show that , apart from consenting , the patient was carefully studied and examined in a context where specialist medical and psychiatric facilities were available , that the consensus of expert opinion was that surgery was called for , and that this was explained to and understood by the patient before he gave his consent .
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