Example sentences of "his [noun] have give [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ted was having trouble picking out a shirt ; his sister had given him a couple of new ones last Christmas , but this was the first time that he 'd really had to study them with regard to presentability . |
| 2 | The walls of his cell had given him nightmares . |
| 3 | He had asked to be transferred , but his club had given him notice of retention and refused to release him . |
| 4 | She remembered the evening because his parents had given him an awful sweater for his birthday and between comedy programmes on the television she and Alan thought up alternative uses for an awful sweater . |
| 5 | He believed if only his parents had given him more confidence and the right backing , he would have made a very good male model . |
| 6 | Though he spoke in Russian , the language that his parents had given him , he was from without the walls that bounded their experience . |
| 7 | At his home at Tackley in Oxfordshire , his parents have given him a special shed to play in , with his own lock and key of course . |
| 8 | Professor de Bono , there are well-established scales , particularly in the States , measuring long term stress and anxiety that we can use in rehabilitated patients to demonstrate that not only have the cardiologists given them years , but Doctor Bethell and his team have given them quality . |
| 9 | Sir Colin Marshall , BA 's chairman , said last night : ‘ We are delighted that Secretary Pena and his team have given us the opportunity to offer our customers the facility to travel on a global network with simplified booking and check-in procedures . ’ |
| 10 | He also denied that his wife had given him any details of who she was supposed to be meeting at TVL at the time of the party . |
| 11 | His paper have given him another six weeks ' leave-of-absence , so he decided to see France and , I believe , Spain . ’ |
| 12 | His father had given them a lecture on the evils of saddlery repair bills . |
| 13 | He was a small boy of six who lived just around the corner from her , and for days he had been going on about this great talking parrot his father had given him . |
| 14 | His father had given him a plentiful supply of money and there was considerable justification for the war . |
| 15 | It was also believed that Menelik visited his father Solomon , and on his departure contrived to substitute a copy of the Ark of the Covenant that his father had given him for the original , which he then carried off to Aksum . |
| 16 | He fixed his mind on a rule his father had given him for public speaking : Get a vague plan and then say anything that comes into your head . |
| 17 | The embarrassing reality was that Burrows had proved more wily than his pursuers had given him credit for , and had managed to give the S.O.U. the slip . |
| 18 | So low was Deems 's voice that his auditors had to give it close attention . |
| 19 | Seb entered the gipsy encampment warily , remembering the reception Boz and his friends had given him on an earlier visit . |
| 20 | When tonight those Tory MPs have all voted for the Prime Minister 's motion — for different and often conflicting reasons — the Prime Minister will claim that his motion has given him a mandate for Maastricht , when he stands for nothing at all . |
| 21 | Gert had been reported for selling torch batteries , which he said his employer had given him . |
| 22 | As Marx rightly comments in his notebook , Maine seems unable to imagine property in terms other than the legal terms which his training had given him . |
| 23 | Any way he had the money that his dad had given him . |
| 24 | TECHNO CLASSICS Vol 1 ’ is the well sorted compilation to come out of the mighty Rising High stable , and Casper and his mates have given us FIVE CD copies to give away ! |
| 25 | His mother had given him contrary messages . |
| 26 | After leaving school he had been unable to settle , had wandered from place to place and had eventually landed up in Borstal , where his crimes had given him a reputation for toughness and ruthlessness which he had felt compelled to live up to ( although at the same time hating it and himself ) . |
| 27 | When the French refused his conditions , Henry decided on the war which his diplomacy had given him time to prepare . |