Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] give him " in BNC.
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| 1 | John , as a child , loved dressing up ; he and his friends played with old clothes kept in a big trunk , and his cousin Petrie writes that the costumes of his father 's club gave him opportunities to indulge in this game . |
| 2 | For instance , erm erm a good illustration of this is Locke 's erm erm argument on the right of inheritance and erm in this case I am quoting from the first treatise of government the right a son has to be maintained , has to be maintained and provided with the necessary the necessities and conveniences of life out of his father 's stock gives him a right to succeed to his father 's property for his own good but this can give him no right to succeed also to the rule which his father had over other men . |
| 3 | Durance 's indignation gave him power , it was as though he actually grew in physical stature . |
| 4 | Saturday 's quintet gave him the remarkable tally of 15 wins from the 35 races run on the Flat in Ireland in 1992 . |
| 5 | Even in the early years , Piper 's percentage gave him $8,000 a year , making him amongst the highest paid men in Australia . |
| 6 | What is more , de Man argues , metaphor overcomes the opposition between inner repose and outer action because Marcel 's imagination gives him access to the outside world ; of a kind that allows him to possess it " much more effectively than if he had actually been present in an outside world that he could then have only known by bits and pieces " ( 1979 : 60 ) . |
| 7 | The latter 's captaincy gave him some pleasant social summers at camps near Brighton but rather less desirable autumn duties elsewhere . |
| 8 | The Spanish dance in The Nutcracker and the Yodelling Song in Ashton 's Façade gave him slightly more chance to make an individual impression , but his only leading part was in Fokine 's Carnaval , where he played Pierrot , not very memorably , sharing the role with Poole , whose interpretation was universally admired . |
| 9 | Barclay 's father gave him 9,000 Scottish merks ( £500 ) to start on a mercantile career . |
| 10 | The Labour Party finally conceded defeat on April 25 after Moda'i confirmed on television that he would definitely support Likud , despite Peres 's offer to give him the deputy premiership and the finance portfolio . |
| 11 | James 's victory gave him 35 points to Lauda 's 61 , his car was clearly among the best , he had matured greatly as a driver , he was on a good roll himself : the championship seemed to be there for his taking . |
| 12 | The telephone went , which was a possible cue , and she came out and heard somebody 's secretary giving him a brushoff . |
| 13 | Cora-Beth 's voice gave him no time to consider the matter further . |
| 14 | Once Mandru had even been frank enough to remark to one of the vibrancers that the sound of Nehushtah 's voice gave him a headache . |
| 15 | Andy Cole 's U-turn gave him the space to shoot high into the net . |
| 16 | Certainly Gen McCreery wanted specific authorization from AFHQ to deal with these Croats in precisely the terms which Robertson 's order gave him . |
| 17 | A coach back to the team 's hotel gave him enough time for a shower and snack lunch before going back to work — more throw downs , a second net against the quicks , and a burst of fielding practice before dusk set in . |
| 18 | If you had the money and the leisure in Brazil , and Emerson 's family gave him both — though not so lavishly as , say , Piquet 's family — motor racing was something perfectly natural . |