Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] gave his " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is an afternoon visit to the temples and a drive to the buried Buddhist city of Sarnath where Buddha gave his first sermon . |
| 2 | It is significant that Buchan gave his middle-aged hero , the Glasgow grocer Dickson McCunn , a literary ancestry : . |
| 3 | Although Innocent gave his college an international flavour and outlook with the appointment of such men as Stephen Langton , Robert of Courson and Peter of Corbeil , the solid Roman basis , supported by cardinals from the neighbourhood of Rome , remained intact from 1198 to 1216 . |
| 4 | When they submitted their paper and Fleischmann gave his first public presentation on 28 March it was this peak alone that was exhibited ; it is shown enlarged in Figure 7 with the number of counts in the vertical axis and the energy scale along the bottom . |
| 5 | On 26th June , Pennethorne sent a long memorial to the Treasury explaining his position and his grievances , and Hall gave his version to the Treasury on 21st July . |
| 6 | Lansdowne announced the changed policy at an Albert Hall rally on 14 November 1912 , and Law gave his support at Ashton-under-Lyne on 16 December . |
| 7 | His eyes were closed and pallor gave his weathered tan a peculiar blotchy look . |
| 8 | For the last two years he had been in practice in Northampton , and he did not at that stage wish to endanger his prospects there by letting his application to Bedford be generally known ; if Whitbread gave his support however , Thackeray would ‘ make his pretensions public ’ . |
| 9 | The engineers strongly opposed this , but Citrine gave his backing to Self at a Central Authority meeting in March 1950 ( when Pask was absent abroad ) . |
| 10 | But Townsend gave his side a deserved lead in the 19th minute The Republic of Ireland midfielder was perfectly positioned in the nineteenth minute when Graeme Le Saux touched back a crossfield ball from Fleck for his skipper to drive home a low shot . |
| 11 | When Churchill gave his first broadcast , suggesting that the Labour Party might have to resort to ‘ some form of Gestapo , no doubt very humanely directed in the first instance ’ , the electors were bound to regard it as a gross exaggeration ; Attlee , following the next night , could readily ask his audience to distinguish between ‘ Winston Churchill , the great leader in war of a united nation , and Mr Churchill the party leader of the Conservatives ’ . |
| 12 | The courtroom fell silent as Dr gave his evidence . |
| 13 | When Manuel gave his reply he would often just say , ‘ Yes ! ’ |
| 14 | The principal weakness in the sense of community when Marshall gave his lectures was the class system , and his emphasis on the social element of citizenship was directed largely at counteracting divisions in the community that would otherwise be caused by class inequalities . |
| 15 | Yet in 1869 , the first full year of Gladstone 's prime ministership , Britain spent £27m. on her army and navy , virtually twice as much as when Palmerston gave his advice to Malmesbury . |
| 16 | When Charlemagne gave his support and patronage to Aethelred , he was honouring only one of at least four princely lines — Osred 's , Osbald 's , Aethelred 's and Eardwulf 's — and even with Frankish blessing Aethelred was unable in these circumstances to establish a long-lasting regime . |