Example sentences of "his [noun pl] [verb] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suragai was hesitating , and Burun saw that he was trying to choose his words to avoid giving offence . |
| 2 | I said that they must n't be sad because he had , after all , crammed so much into his short life , that his parties had given enormous pleasure to so many people , that Conor was the sort of person Jack Kerouac might have loved , he was one of the ones who are mad to live , desirous of everything at the same time , ‘ the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing , but burn , burn , burn , like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars ’ . |
| 3 | He was older , seventy , and his legs began to give him such pain . |
| 4 | But the desire and the longing in his eyes had given her strength , and he had moved to her at once , so that she had known , once and for all , that there could never be anything strained or awkward between them . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He believed if only his parents had given him more confidence and the right backing , he would have made a very good male model . |
| 7 | Though he spoke in Russian , the language that his parents had given him , he was from without the walls that bounded their experience . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | So low was Deems 's voice that his auditors had to give it close attention . |
| 11 | His publications include Giving It All Away : Modern Money Matters , Sylvester P. Pussycat : A Psycho-Sexual Case Study , After Puccini and The European Currency Unit : Paper Money or Solid Brass ? |
| 12 | Strange he thought , there seems to be a current fad around about dinosaurs , there was one on top of a bottle of bath oil one of his grandsons had given to him for Christmas and another was perched on the handle of a nail brush in the bathroom . |
| 13 | Seb entered the gipsy encampment warily , remembering the reception Boz and his friends had given him on an earlier visit . |
| 14 | 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 ! |
| 15 | 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 ) . |