Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] give his [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the most fitting tribute to their son is that he gave his life to a mission which may have saved many more . |
| 2 | But let us not forget that he gave his life in an act of selfless devotion to the race . |
| 3 | He so loved you and me that he gave his son for us ! |
| 4 | The candidate must also give his consent to nomination and at the same time that he gives his consent in writing he must state his qualifications to be a candidate . |
| 5 | Law pessimistically told the King that he would in any case alienate half of his subjects , Unionists if he gave his assent to Home Rule and Liberals if he did not . |
| 6 | We are blessed in him because he gave his life for us . |
| 7 | Interesting too because he gave his side of the Clough-Leeds debacle . |
| 8 | Its American parent makes watches in Little Rock , Arkansas , whose favourite son wore a Timex ticker when he gave his State of the Union address . |
| 9 | The scattered crowd drew closer together and listened quietly , but when he gave his warning about the Riot Act , glances were exchanged , a few grinned openly , and a wit called out , ‘ They must know the law here — that is why they have all stayed at home . ’ |
| 10 | But it is often assumed that so doing is to be following in the footsteps of Marx , when he gave his example of luxury goods production , basing himself on the premise that the sub-department lib produced only goods for capitalist consumption . |
| 11 | Gedge has now learned to protect himself and even when he gives his number to friends , he implores them not to pass it on . |
| 12 | As he gave his evidence for videotape , ‘ genial and twinkly , relaxed in the red eye of the TV camera ’ , as Newsweek described him , reporters noted that in an adjacent courtroom Stevie Wonder was appearing in a case about the authorship of a song , and that across the street another crew was filming an episode of Thirty Something . |
| 13 | Culpeper achieved fame as he gave his name to a certain type of tripod microscope made in the early eighteenth century , but it is not at all clear that he was its inventor . |