Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] gave his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reg Akehurst 's charge was a firm favourite for that contest and gave his backers not the slightest hint of a scare when leading at the furlong pole to score by a length-and-a-half. way off the pace makes an accurate assessment of his progress very difficult for the handicapper , but this observer is convinced there is significant improvement still to come . |
| 2 | One of Charles Tennant 's business partners was a young Glasgow chemist called Charles Mackintosh , the man who later gained world-wide recognition for his invention of a waterproof fabric and gave his name to a raincoat made of the material . |
| 3 | He balanced the empty whisky glass on the window-sill and gave his nose a last wipe , pocketing his hanky . |
| 4 | In France , Joffre , though discredited , was appointed Chief Military Adviser to the Government , a titular post that gave his incompetence less scope . |
| 5 | With a slow smile that gave his face quite extraordinary charm , he picked up his bowl , waved a languid hand , then turned and ambled back across the garden , his borrowings clutched ridiculously to his large chest . |
| 6 | But Bugatti was an innovator and it was his work at suspension development that gave his cars the edge over his rivals . |
| 7 | He admitted his real name and gave his address as Randolph Terrace , Evenwood . |
| 8 | On a celebrated occasion in Wales a county court judge sitting in a civil case in Bridgend had not completed the case when the train was due to leave , so he continued it on the train and gave his final judgement in the station-master 's office at Llantrisant . |
| 9 | Anselm , glad to escape from the secular snares into a world he understood , refused the king 's demand and gave his proffered £500 to the poor . |
| 10 | It was his sense of history , part romantic , part Christian , and his sense of American society that gave his films their dramatic and visual power . |
| 11 | He was offered a test drive and gave his verdict ; a big thumbs up , before he even left the gate . |
| 12 | He turned up his coat collar and gave his eyes time to adjust to the thickness of the night fog . |
| 13 | He was not wise in the affairs of the world , nor did he wish to be : he simply challenged the normal assumptions of the world and gave his attention to eternal truths and individual souls . |
| 14 | He got them all from Barry Cross but gave his three-person Cycle Project Team to David Campbell . |