Example sentences of "gave his " in BNC.
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| 1 | He blew his nose and gave his behind a scratch as we picked our way through the lush undergrowth . |
| 2 | If he lacked Zhivkov 's taste , Ceauşescu showed greater consistency of purpose : Zhivkov survived his fall and lived long enough to explain that he had not really been a Communist after all ; Ceauşescu never gave his judges the satisfaction of hearing him renounce his beliefs . |
| 3 | I 've never heard testimony better delivered than Pulley 's ( and ) Leech gave his with great clearness and good sense ’ . |
| 4 | Bill Dodd , club captain in the 1930s , was one of those players who always gave his all for ninety minutes . |
| 5 | He waited for the laughter to die down and then , ignoring Mickey Aronson , he leaned his head out of the window , gave his gravelly laugh and confided to the other men : ‘ A bigger ignoramus I never met ; he does n't even know that ships and cars are always female . ’ |
| 6 | This was a parting gift but I dropped mine and the bloody dogs were on it in a flash , whilst Benjamin , kind as ever , gave his to the page who served us . |
| 7 | Leo Tolstoy asked the question , and in 1898 his remarkable book with that title gave his reply . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | A professional cavalier , who enjoyed excelling at the game of soldiering , who gave his orders with the perfect authority of a corps whose drills have been tempered by a score of successful wars , a hundred victories , a million unsung deaths . |
| 10 | He also gave his mother 's new name , as she had recently remarried . |
| 11 | In so doing he also gave his blessing to — what in effect proved to be the case — declaring the Transkei , or at least Bumbane , the first ANC liberated zone , however fleetingly , yesterday afternoon . |
| 12 | President Gorbachev , with whom Chancellor Helmut Kohl had been in frequent contact , clearly gave his approval . |
| 13 | IN A SUDDEN and scathing interjection during yesterday 's hearing , Lord Donaldson , Master of the Rolls , gave his view on the recent series of massive libel payouts by British juries , writes James Dalrymple . |
| 14 | ' Mr Kinnock 's confidence was bolstered by an NOP survey in last night 's London Evening Standard , which gave his party a 9-point lead over the Conservatives ( 46 per cent to 37 ) . |
| 15 | MICKY STEWART , the England manager , gave his son , Alec , a gruelling introduction to cricket on the Indian sub-continent when he put the Surrey wicketkeeper-batsmen — along with the rest of the 14-man England squad - through a three-and-a-half hour training session in temperatures of up to 100F at the National Stadium in Delhi yesterday . |
| 16 | JONATHAN SPEELMAN gave his supporters an anxious day in the sixth round of the Pilkington Glass World Chess Championship semi-finals yesterday . |
| 17 | He cheerfully gave his sanction to most of what the vicar did , the use of incense , the reservation of the sacrament , the wearing of vestments , the ringing of sanctuary bells , the veneration of the cross on Good Friday , the blessing of the palms on Palm Sunday , the blessing of a Paschal candle , and the pictures of the Stations of the Cross on the walls . |
| 18 | The lecturer gave his definition of stress — a sense of impending incontinence . |
| 19 | It was like this — my uncle and my father came to Britain first and my uncle gave his pay packet to my father , who is older . |
| 20 | The man had colour television , false teeth worth two hundred pounds ; he gave his friend a record player for a wedding present . |
| 21 | Observers in Sofia are convinced that the Kremlin gave his proposed leadership bid its blessing . |
| 22 | The West German Foreign Minister , Mr Hans-Dietrich Genscher , on Tuesday gave his conditional backing for the conference , which would include the United States and Canada as well as all European countries with the exception of Albania . |
| 23 | Initially Mr Bond gave his approval , but it is understood that sanction has subsequently been withdrawn . |
| 24 | Any lingering doubts about the closeness of that alliance were dissipated when Chancellor Helmut Kohl gave his ringing support for President Franois Mitterrand 's call for a special inter-governmental conference next December , to begin revising the Rome Treaty and opening the way to full economic and monetary union . |
| 25 | He gave his 22-year-old daughter Valentina a prominent role in the finances of the company ( she , like his wife , is now a director ) . |
| 26 | This week parliament gave his policy its strong support , and most Australians are with Mr Hawke too . |
| 27 | That it was going in this direction anyway had already been signalled by the resignations — often amid recrimination — of every one of Mr Gorbachev 's top economic advisers : notably Stanislav Shatalin ( who gave his name to the rejected ‘ 500-day ’ plan to convert the Soviet economy to capitalism ) and Nikolai Petrakov ( who was the president 's personal economic guru ) . |
| 28 | ‘ God so loved the world that he gave his only Son that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life ’ ( John 3.16 ) . |
| 29 | He remembered that his wife had one precious jewel , and he did what no man should ever do — he went and gave his wife 's only jewel to the beggar . |
| 30 | It is in holy love that we glimpse the meaning of the cross because ‘ God so loved the world that he gave his only Son ’ ( John 3.16 ) . |