Example sentences of "[noun pl] give his " in BNC.

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1 Andy Reed 's lineout provision had created that chance and the Bath lock could prove a real dark horse for the Lions given his sterling deeds at restarts , a superb chopping of Mike Hall , a dive pass from a ruck and his arrival in the burn-out of Gavin Hastings ' break which required more last-gasp heroics , this time from Stuart Davies , to prevent a try .
2 He found ( see also Batson and Best ( 1981 ) ) that animals given his discrimination training procedure showed an enhanced preference for the safe flavour ( the conditioned inhibitor ) .
3 RAY McCarron , Monaghan 's rotund scoring machine was up to his old tricks at Castleblayney when he fired in two goals to give his side an Ulster championship lifeline .
4 The sharp nose and thin lips gave his angular face a harshness which was softened by the neatly trimmed black moustache he had worn since his early twenties .
5 The emphasis on the last few words gave his game away .
6 Chief executive Sipko Huismans gives his view from the top in this interview with Courtauld News .
7 Goodlad 's ideas have received some outside encouragement : the Royal Society of Arts gave his course on communication of scientific ideas an Education for Capability award for providing an effective combination of academic reflection and the learning of practical skills in communication of ideas .
8 More importantly , his idea that narrative grammar may be transformed or subverted by individual texts gives his grammar far greater analytical power , since elements which might fall outside the scope of a more rigid model may now be read as transformations of it .
9 She would send him off to some lecturing engagement with butter and other rations to give his hostess , and when he came back the rations would be found as a soggy mess in his pocket .
10 But his bold substitution — putting on Merson after 70 minutes to give his side a third orthodox striker — provided the missing ingredient .
11 and I put twenty thousand pounds to give , I , I mean I took it that she would use her allowance , er I took it erm as twenty thousand pounds to give his wife as high a possible gross earning
12 Oxford had a four goal mountain to climb against Tranmere after losing 5-1 in the first leg … what was improbable looked impossible by half-time with Rovers Kenny Irons giving his team a one goal lead …
13 This is about a young boy who is trying to avoid going to the dentists so he comes up with a series of excuses to give his mother .
14 Throughout his life , Agnew could not speak and relied entirely on sign language and fingerspelling , but was a highly articulate man — he penned a great number of articles in Scottish and national newspapers giving his views on the introduction of oralism into British schools .
15 Doctors gave his liver to a 15-year-old boy , his kidneys to a 43-year-old mother of two and a man of 60 , his heart to a woman of 45 , and both lungs to a woman of 47 .
16 Music has a time-span which is very different from that of speech — it spreads words into another time dimension , so that whereas a writer has to ‘ pad out ’ his thoughts to give his words extra body , such padding becomes burdensome in music — unwanted material we could well do without .
17 The new studded boots gave his players poise and confidence and were a vital factor in their 3–1 win .
18 FOCUS ON FACILITIES gives his regular report on changes in facilities at head office
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