Example sentences of "[Wh pn] gave he [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Daniel Stoneman has defied the doctors who gave him a one-in-10 chance of survival from a rare brain tumour . |
| 2 | Recently Colin became friends with a bona fide shaman , Davide , who gave him a dose of ‘ ayahuasca ’ . |
| 3 | LITTLE battler Matthew Costen is going home in triumph — after defying doctors who gave him a fortnight to live . |
| 4 | He was a very nice man and popular with the journalists , who gave him a ragged but friendly cheer for turning up on time . |
| 5 | He met up with old colleagues such as Mike Evans and Graham Knight who gave him a typically ex-London welcome . |
| 6 | They managed to send Richard to school and at some time he attracted the notice of the lawyer-priest Thomas de Nevill , later Archdeacon of Durham , who gave him a grant to study at Oxford when he was about thirteen or fourteen years old . |
| 7 | And if Derry succeed , he will murmur a silent but heartfelt ‘ thank you ’ to Kevin Heffernan , the man who gave him a new outlook and sense of purpose in the sport which has made him both a local and national hero . |
| 8 | After the war , a doctor who gave him a check-up ( incredibly enough not recognising him ) remarked : ‘ One can see that you were n't in the war . ’ |
| 9 | But he could justify this because there were other Scots besides Elder , drawn from the ranks of the leading politicians , who gave him the same message . |
| 10 | Indeed , it was the Moors who gave him the title by which he is best known , a contraction of the Arabic sid-y , meaning ‘ my lord ’ . |
| 11 | It is not known who gave him the letter but it was to set him off on the road to fame and fortune . |
| 12 | After all , the chairman of a transport conglomerate which had tipped hundreds of thousands into party funds would not thank a prime minister who gave him the same reward as a Blackpool entertainer . |
| 13 | It was James I who gave him the epithet ‘ judicious ’ and enjoined his son , the future King Charles 1 , to study his works . |
| 14 | A lonely childhood , a youthful longing for adventure , made it easy enough for Dick to lay aside his devotion to an almost legendary father and to dedicate himself to the service of a man who gave him the emotional security and incentive he had lacked for so long . |
| 15 | He had been given curious looks by the person who gave him the directions which show that he was a stranger as he was not recognised . |
| 16 | The pope sent cardinals , the senator of Rome and other nobles to escort him to St Peter 's and at the monastery of St Pancras the king was anointed by the cardinal bishop of Porto and crowned by the pope , who gave him the royal insignia . |
| 17 | The solicitors who gave him the court order for them to release all the details on that . |
| 18 | By Monday , Ben was terribly ill and , once more , we took him to our vet , who gave him an antihistamine injection . |
| 19 | The two of them leapt out of the beached cockboat and strode up past the fishwives , some of whom gave him a " good day " but most of whom preserved a surly silence . |