Example sentences of "his [noun sg] gave him a " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the warrior Solor he possessed neither the exotic glamour of Ruzimatov nor the romantic height of Cope — and a dispassionate viewer would admit that his turban gave him an unfortunately gnome-like appearance . |
| 2 | A demand from his bladder gave him a happy idea . |
| 3 | His sole gave him a peculiar sensation , realising that it was undone and dragging , made him laugh , in retort , but secretly , inside . |
| 4 | Mungo noticed that his window gave him a view of the field and the edge of the forest . |
| 5 | One wonderful story is that he decided against a career in mathematics when his teacher gave him a poor mark in an exam for answering a problem correctly but not using the method taught in class . |
| 6 | His wife gave him a long level look with no liking in it at all , and Penelope Huntley watched , fascinated . |
| 7 | His wife gave him a plywood Appalachian dulcimer , bought from Cecil Sharp House in London , where the English Fold Dance and Song Society is based . |
| 8 | His father gave him a white convertible Mercedes 300 for his eighteenth birthday . |
| 9 | Last year his father gave him a new car — a very fast car . |
| 10 | By the time that man gets to Riga he will know his way around the town and every detail of his life from the day his father gave him a light-brown teddy-bear , to the movie show he watched last night . |
| 11 | His claim gave him a useful propaganda weapon , some bargaining power in negotiations , and a basis on which to appeal to discontented French vassals ; it was also a convenient argument with which to counter Philip 's confiscation of Aquitaine . |
| 12 | His employer gave him a glowing reference and spoke about him to a friend by the name of Sir Algernon Clark , a fellow businessman who was having problems with insurance brokers over the size of the premium for insuring his wharf and its most valuable contents . |
| 13 | At his christening his mother gave him a second forename , ‘ Arthur ’ , which he did not like and never used . |
| 14 | His brother gave him a sour glance . |
| 15 | Obviously caused by a simple technical fault , this spiriting away of his death gave him a singular nobility totally lacking from the rest of the film . |
| 16 | Nor had Ivor ; but the circumstances of his death gave him a posthumous popularity , if only to make the crime of which Georgina was accused seem fouler . |