Example sentences of "his [noun] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tells everybody his sister gave it to him for Christmas and he does n't really want one , but what with the job and all his meetings it comes in handy . |
| 2 | His fingers touched hers and his heart gave a jolt , but she seemed perfectly in command of herself and had apparently felt nothing , so he told himself not to be a dope , and carried his coffee back to the chesterfield . |
| 3 | his heart gave out . |
| 4 | She looked up and smiled , so that his heart gave an absurd bump of joy . |
| 5 | Dr Neil bent down to take the bloom from her , and as their hands met his heart gave a great lurch . |
| 6 | He spoke in staccato phrases : ‘ His heart gave out , that 's what it amounts to . |
| 7 | The touch of his fingers gave her such pleasure , that , scowling , she coughed all the way back to the theatre . |
| 8 | One of the many aspects of his personality which endeared him to his patients — the others being good looks , charm , youth , boyishness and treating them like equals — was his inability to give up smoking . |
| 9 | Well er firstly , he can , even if it 's his money give it to his wife as his partner , and she could then invest the money , and because she 's not paying any tax , er she could get a ten percent return , so she could actually get a thousand pounds on that ten thousand and that would be payable gross . |
| 10 | BRENDAN MULLIN , Ireland 's highest try-scorer , who announced his retirement from representative rugby last March , will persist with his decision to give the bigtime a miss . |
| 11 | But he stood by his decision to give Robert Ward , 20 , probation for holding up a solicitor 's office with a starting pistol . |
| 12 | This had been further enhanced recently by his appearance in television ads for the estate agency chain , which suggested his decision to give up an earlier acting career had been a smart move . |
| 13 | I also remind myself of the effect upon the plaintiff 's fathers career , of his decision to give up work in order to attend the plaintiff . |
| 14 | His arrogance made him virile and masculine , his stubbornness gave him the character to administer his centuries-old responsibilities . |
| 15 | come on down … no not the jetskiers but you … its competition time … pens and paper ready … we 've Nigel Mansell 's new book and two of his hats to give away … so let's get going |
| 16 | come on down … no not the jetskiers but you … its competition time … pens and paper ready … we 've Nigel Mansell 's new book and two of his hats to give away … so let's get going |
| 17 | For his part Ivashko promised following his election to give up the Ukrainian CP leadership , and at a party congress on June 22-23 he was replaced as first secretary by his former deputy , Stanislav Gurenko . |
| 18 | Such tangible paid recognition of Edward 's literary interests gained the approval of his father , who had himself remained a dedicated , aloof , self-improving student at home while his sons gave full rein to their athletic , roaming , rumbustious interests ‘ abroad ’ . |
| 19 | Just how successful Reagan was as governor of California has , not surprisingly , been the subject of dispute , with his supporters exaggerating his achievements and his opponents giving him less than his due . |
| 20 | The derelict gardens were rescued by Davyd , who had moved down from the mountains of Wales to the plains of East Anglia , but remained very Welsh , his accent giving authority to everything he said . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , his presence gave Breeze an uncomfortable feeling , and she moved to the far end of the room so that she should not overhear what he was saying . |
| 22 | His presence gives Joan some respite and complements the assistance she receives from the doctor who visits once a week and a nurse who comes in the morning and at night to put James to bed . |
| 23 | In his Reith lectures , broadcast in 1991 and now published as a book , he has set aside his snails to give us a glimpse of human evolution through his geneticist 's eye . |
| 24 | But despite his confidence in Kylie and his willingness to give her complete control over her shows , Bush was turned down . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Looking at the patchwork nature of the results , Sir Patrick may well decide that his proposals to give new talks ‘ a sense of direction and focus ’ would be better grounded in reality than continued wishful thinking . |
| 27 | Instead of wrestling with the imponderables of land and trees and drainage and crops , he was back where his skills gave him a harsh certainty . |
| 28 | He put the gun sideways in his mouth to give him two free hands and I thought about trying to grab it off him but I thought I 'd probably kill one of us and even if I did n't I was no match for him and he 'd just take it off me again . |
| 29 | His mouth gave a wry twist as he remembered an old lady in his home town who used to buy up sympathy cards by the dozen . |
| 30 | His mouth gave a slight twitch . |