Example sentences of "gives his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The engagingly eccentric editorials of veteran Brussels-watcher Emanuele Gazzo , founder of Agence Europe , gives his fly-sheet the decided edge in terms of amusement value . |
| 2 | If , as is more likely , the seller gives his instruction to that person 's employer or principal , he must allow reasonable time for the instructions to be communicated to the person in actual possession before delivery is made to the buyer . |
| 3 | Now Paul Shooter , a deputy head teacher , gives his story : |
| 4 | comes , and gives his love to me ? |
| 5 | The other was ‘ The man in the Manse ’ , by the Rev. Ronald Blakey , who is to succeed david Miller as Secretary to the Assembly Council , and who is one of several at ‘ 121 ’ who gives his help with Christian Aid . |
| 6 | The list grows as you think about it ; the average middle-class citizen with a family , a house , car , insurances , mortgage , probably gives his name and address involuntarily ( i.e. statutorily ) to well over twenty agencies , and as many again voluntarily , each year . |
| 7 | For Smollett they have as much to say as their masters , if less well spelt , while one even gives his name to the title , Humphry Clinker . |
| 8 | He never gives his name , and he always asks for the same dedication . |
| 9 | The bearded guy gives his name as Rufus , and the boat-owner is called Des . |
| 10 | Well Mike gives his permission so |
| 11 | He gets the arms for Christmas and soon gives his doll |
| 12 | He writes clearly and lightheartedly about the 100 best rivers and gives his expert advice on how to navigate their reaches . |
| 13 | JAMES ‘ BARRY NORMAN ’ PRICE gives his expert verdict … and why not ? |
| 14 | Here he gives his expert verdict on Andy Roxburgh 's World Cup chances |
| 15 | Braque 's interest in space gives his work an ‘ overall ’ quality , which has ever since remained one of the main features of his style , whereas in Picasso 's painting the attention is usually riveted on the subject while the background or surround is often treated in a simpler or more cursory fashion . |
| 16 | Disapproval is all too common in the pulpit , but it is rare in poetry , and its presence gives his work a curious flavour , subtle yet tart , which will always attract connoisseurs . |
| 17 | formerly in John Street in the Adelphi , west London ; where Wardle gives his dinner-party after Pickwick 's release from the Fleet . |
| 18 | Does n't give his address , it just gives his phone number . |
| 19 | It 's something that gives his performance in Glory a genuinely affecting complexity , something which suggests he may develop into an actor with some depth . |
| 20 | An example would be where someone else takes charge of the vehicle to such a degree that he will not resume control of the vehicle , such as where he gives his friend the ignition key and a taxi is ordered to take him home . |
| 21 | In another sharp break with convention , the protagonist of Sonnets 127–52 ( I set aside 153 and 154 , two sonnets on themes traditional since the Greek Anthology , which do not seem to belong to this sequence ) gives his mistress not compliments but insults , or mock-compliments , and that at the level of the body alone : sex without love , as it were . |
| 22 | , Aeneas ( c. 1780–1852 ) , exciseman and inventor of the Coffey still , was born about 1780 , probably in Dublin ( though one source gives his birthplace as Calais ) , the son of Andrew Coffey , the city engineer of Dublin , who was employed in the Dublin City Waterworks from 1774 to 1832 . |
| 23 | His death is a sin offering , he gives his life for us , he dies for us , but , as far as I can tell , the New Testament never answers this question : To whom is the sin offering given ? |
| 24 | Jesus gives his life as a ransom . |
| 25 | The fact that the life tenant is domiciled in the United Kingdom when he dies or gives his life interest away is irrelevant . |
| 26 | Next Sunday , Willie Lamont gives his approach to history , when |
| 27 | It is black and gleaming and it gives his wife Meriel the willies . |
| 28 | ( Jacques had not been living at home at least from 1707 , the year his Principes was published , which gives his address as rue Christine . ) |
| 29 | The baby who is picked up or fed whenever he cries soon becomes a veritable tyrant , and gives his mother no peace when awake ; while , on the other hand , the infant who is fed regularly , put to sleep , and played with at definite times soon finds that appeals bring no response , and so learns that most useful of all lessons , self-control , and the recognition of an authority other than his own wishes . |
| 30 | Euthymides regularly gives his father 's name , Polias or Polios ( the genitive could belong to either ) ; and on the Acropolis have been found signatures of a sixth-century sculptor Pollias ( double letters are written double or single indifferently at this time ) . |