Example sentences of "[conj] his [noun] gave " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had spent the week driving back and forth between Blackburn and Southampton where his wife gave birth last Monday to their first child . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The house of his childhood was Wilden , where his mother gave hint a literary upbringing . |
| 4 | Inland , the Annamite Cordillera thrust its purple peaks towards the afternoon sky , but neither Joseph Sherman nor his mother gave more than a passing glance to the spectacular mountain and ocean scenery outside the car . |
| 5 | ‘ The gentleman before you complained that his lenses gave him double vision and headaches . |
| 6 | Mungo noticed that his window gave him a view of the field and the edge of the forest . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She looked up and smiled , so that his heart gave an absurd bump of joy . |
| 9 | Naturally , my father would have felt this loss keenly ; but to make matters worse the usual comfort a father has in these situations — that is , the notion that his son gave his life gloriously for king and country — was sullied by the fact that my brother had perished in a particularly infamous manoeuvre . |
| 10 | DARLINGTON manager Frank Gray agreed that his side gave one of their best displays of the season so far . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Paul Mangan explains why he and his wife gave up on NHS efforts at parentcraft classes |
| 13 | Mr Garrard has kept birds of prey all his life , and he and his wife gave up their jobs to start the Feather Perfect Display Team , and often put on displays for children . |
| 14 | Harrison and his friends gave a rousing version of his Beatles composition , Taxman , in which the names of former prime ministers Mr Heath and Mr Wilson were replaced by those of Mr Major and Mr Kinnock . |
| 15 | And his mother gave me an apologetic smile and said something I did n't catch as she hurried after husband and son . |
| 16 | There were messages awaiting Rory Collins when he got home , and his mother gave them to him with little interest . |
| 17 | These had no actuality sound with them — the technology was n't up to it then — and Peter and his guest gave a live , ad-lib commentary as the film was shown . |
| 18 | Yes , Milton manager , Keith Stock celebrated yet another birthday yesterday , and his team gave him something to celebrate with three points at Basement Club , Bishops Cleve this afternoon to see United extend their unbeaten record which stretches back to last October . |
| 19 | Atiyah 's great work , The Rise and Fall of Freedom of Contract , shows how nineteenth-century English judges , in developing the doctrine of freedom of contract , were influenced by the ideas of political economy to which Adam Smith and his successors gave expression . |
| 20 | I am the delighted winner of the Outdoor Action Splash competition and I 'd just like to say that Andy Middleton and his colleagues gave us a great time on our week 's holiday at the Twr-y-Felin outdoor centre . |
| 21 | At the start of his administration Eisenhower and his colleagues gave serious thought to ways in which the United States might be able to gain advantages in the Cold War . |
| 22 | Colley 's eyes lighted on his former apprentice and his face gave that convulsive shudder , as of a man looking on something unendurably loathsome , before buckling into a grin . |
| 23 | He was holding the passenger door open for her , and his face gave nothing away . |
| 24 | Jake and his men gave a loud guffaw and so did the Town Clerk and the Dragoons . |
| 25 | Early settlement by Caega and his people gave the village its name . |
| 26 | We called him Boy because my elder sister and I were born first and his arrival gave great joy . |
| 27 | At fifteen he worked in a bank to learn accountancy , until his eyesight gave trouble . |
| 28 | And if they took him to hospital he 'd just do the same thing again and again , until his family gave in . |
| 29 | She glanced surreptitiously downward , wondering if he 'd felt it too , but his expression gave nothing away . |
| 30 | She paused and forced herself to look at him steadily , but his expression gave nothing away . |