Example sentences of "[pron] give his " in BNC.
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| 1 | And there these twelve men and two boys , who , with nothing much but bare hands , the sailor man 's gift for improvisation , and their indomitable guts , had fought sea and fire for their ship and won , were cared for and each of them given his heart 's desire . |
| 2 | I give his lever such a yank |
| 3 | ‘ I give his little cars to my grandsons to play with and when I watch them playing I can see Brian as he was playing with them . |
| 4 | ‘ He just wants someone to give his two spoilt brats a holiday . |
| 5 | By the time Kathleen had sorted the patient out and found someone to give his wife a cup of tea and explain what was happening , Jack was back in Theatre , clad from head to toe in green theatre pyjamas , with a J-cloth hat and a mask . |
| 6 | I gave his wife some mulberries last autumn and I know he trusts us with the petrol allowance and anyway this beastly rationing should be over soon , so I know I should n't complain when some people have had it much worse up in town . |
| 7 | I gave his message to the despatcher and added , ‘ We 're reversing now , going slowly . ’ |
| 8 | Cos I I gave his name to this guy organizing the one world week . |
| 9 | But he also looks at topics such as costing , budgeting , overhead allocation and investment decisions , which give his work a broader scope than most . |
| 10 | Eadberht was Ceolwulf 's cousin , according to the Anglian genealogies which give his alleged descent from Ida ( see Appendix , Fig. 9 ) . |
| 11 | A system like this frees the chef to devote extra time and energy into adding those special little finishing touches which give his creations the mark of individuality . |
| 12 | ' Mr Kinnock 's confidence was bolstered by an NOP survey in last night 's London Evening Standard , which gave his party a 9-point lead over the Conservatives ( 46 per cent to 37 ) . |
| 13 | Thick dark hair begged to have fingers run through it , but the wide mouth was still dominated by the thickness of his lower lip , which gave his face such potent sexuality . |
| 14 | Yet , Bauthumley felt his own humble social position was one which gave his voice special importance : |
| 15 | The only minor manifestation which gave his game away , was the filth under his yellow , smoke-dyed nails . |
| 16 | It 's an ominous warning which gives his players an extra incentive to impress against the Londoners tonight . |
| 17 | ( Jacques had not been living at home at least from 1707 , the year his Principes was published , which gives his address as rue Christine . ) |
| 18 | A professional cavalier , who enjoyed excelling at the game of soldiering , who gave his orders with the perfect authority of a corps whose drills have been tempered by a score of successful wars , a hundred victories , a million unsung deaths . |
| 19 | That it was going in this direction anyway had already been signalled by the resignations — often amid recrimination — of every one of Mr Gorbachev 's top economic advisers : notably Stanislav Shatalin ( who gave his name to the rejected ‘ 500-day ’ plan to convert the Soviet economy to capitalism ) and Nikolai Petrakov ( who was the president 's personal economic guru ) . |
| 20 | The leaders of the Trades Union Congress , governors of the BBC , the Archbishops of York and Canterbury , to say nothing of grand figures like the former foreign secretary , Lord Halifax , the former chancellor and home secretary who gave his name to the wartime Anderson shelter , Lord Waverley , and the sainted Lady Violet Bonham Carter were all against . |
| 21 | Rodrigo was yet but a youth , and the Count was a mighty man in arms , one who gave his voice first in the Cortes , and was held to be the best in the war , and so powerful that he had a thousand friends among the mountains . |
| 22 | An ex-mason , who gave his evidence to the working party , wrote of ‘ a beautiful sense of lightness and freedom I experienced when that oppression was lifted . ’ |
| 23 | This double reduction was formalized by Patrick Dunleavy , who gave his book Urban Political Analysis ( 1980b ) the subtitle ‘ The politics of collective consumption ’ . |
| 24 | Two nights later , Derek was having a drink in the same hotel when the same person approached him accompanied by a second man who gave his name as Alexander Atkins . |
| 25 | The popular critical response was probably best summed up by Robert Wagner , who gave his readers fair warning : |
| 26 | The morning session was concluded by John Davis who gave his views on the future of the European display scene . |
| 27 | Thus resulted in a correspondence with Mr D.S.V. Fosten , who gave his opinion that is was a rare specimen of an other ranks ' jacket of the period , and that the wings and blue grenade patches were unlike any he had ever seen . |
| 28 | Police have arrested a man who gave his name as … |
| 29 | From the first example you should have found This method of setting out sets was thought out by a mathematician named Venn , who gave his name to the " Venn diagram " . |
| 30 | Osman ( Uthman ) I , who gave his name to the Ottoman empire , inherited the crumbling Seljuk patrimony at the end of the fourteenth century . |