Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] give his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a pianist is particularly charming and quite gifted , his failure to win the competition need not trouble him ; money is raised privately among local citizens , and he is given his own Carnegie Hall recital , perhaps , or his own scholarship to the Conservatoire in Paris , with a living allowance to provide for ‘ a minimally decent standard of living ’ — a phrase used in Forth Worth to describe what British people might call an upper middle-class lifestyle . |
| 2 | He faxes me , not to own up to being Clark Kent , but to draw attention to the fact that he is giving his surplus Y-fronts to Mary Loudon ( author of Nuns Unveiled , Chatto it says here ) for onward transmission to the homeless . |
| 3 | Tomorrow he 's giving his first ever lecture at the University Examination School , which is actually open to anyone , not just students . |
| 4 | He was given his last — and only — pair of trousers on his birthday nearly a year earlier by his father . |
| 5 | I think er you know this our our boss , er who Mr as he was called he was given his full title of er Mr William Owen , then . |
| 6 | When the German war ended he was given his own section trying to break Albanian cypher . |
| 7 | From there it had been only a matter of time until he was given his own prison . |
| 8 | He was such a regular visitor that he was given his own pit boots and locker . |
| 9 | His luck ran out for the French students against their English counterparts when , though captain , he was given his marching orders for , guess what , stamping again . |
| 10 | I had to listen patiently , while he was giving his extraordinary opinions of my dear country . |