Example sentences of "his [noun pl] give [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The touch of his fingers gave her such pleasure , that , scowling , she coughed all the way back to the theatre . |
| 2 | Just how successful Reagan was as governor of California has , not surprisingly , been the subject of dispute , with his supporters exaggerating his achievements and his opponents giving him less than his due . |
| 3 | In his Reith lectures , broadcast in 1991 and now published as a book , he has set aside his snails to give us a glimpse of human evolution through his geneticist 's eye . |
| 4 | Instead of wrestling with the imponderables of land and trees and drainage and crops , he was back where his skills gave him a harsh certainty . |
| 5 | She knew it was ridiculous , but his words gave her a strange little tingle deep inside , and she was forced to smother the smile that kept trying to push its way to her lips . |
| 6 | His words gave her a slight shock as they sent tingles of pleasure through her , but she knew she must not allow them to go to her head , so she pushed them aside as she uttered a light laugh and said , ‘ Me — an angel ? |
| 7 | But even his eyes gave her no answer . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , for all that he 'd been around there was definitely something that was attractive and appealing about him ; only his eyes gave him away , because they could turn cold and introspective while those around him were whooping it up . |
| 9 | On his first night back , his parents give him a party , to which they invite their circle of middle-class , middle-aged friends . |
| 10 | Last year his parents gave it to me to restore . |
| 11 | In view of Leicester Energy Limited 's continued interest in the establishment of a combined heat and power scheme in Leicester , will the Minister give his wholehearted support and instruct his officials to give their wholehearted co-operation to Leicester Energy Limited in the tremendous efforts that it is making to promote that scheme ? |
| 12 | I 'll talk to you about one of his experiments to give you a sort of flavour of it , although other people and himself and others have done a lot of interesting work that 's similar . |
| 13 | ‘ The gentleman before you complained that his lenses gave him double vision and headaches . |
| 14 | ‘ The gentleman before you complained his lenses gave him double vision and headaches . |
| 15 | His relations gave him up , deploring his French expedition and the revolutionary sympathies it so clearly implied , and despairing that he would ever take the opportunities available to him for making a career in the Church or the law . |
| 16 | It was four days ( during which he was given the last rites ) before his doctors gave him a chance to live through . |
| 17 | After twenty-eight rounds Cribb was unable to come to scratch , but a ruse by his seconds gave him time to recover , and Molineaux retired in the thirty-third round . |
| 18 | Jaq switched on the magnetics in his boots to give him purchase for possible combat . |
| 19 | Music has a time-span which is very different from that of speech — it spreads words into another time dimension , so that whereas a writer has to ‘ pad out ’ his thoughts to give his words extra body , such padding becomes burdensome in music — unwanted material we could well do without . |
| 20 | MD , , presented with a colour television from the company , while his colleagues gave him a garden bench . |
| 21 | I am the delighted winner of the Outdoor Action Splash competition and I 'd just like to say that Andy Middleton and his colleagues gave us a great time on our week 's holiday at the Twr-y-Felin outdoor centre . |
| 22 | He was a tall , attractive man in his mid-forties , the grey hair at his temples giving him a distinguished look . |
| 23 | There was another Moses , a Midianite , who introduced the god Yahweh , a local volcanic god — ‘ a coarse , narrow-minded , local god , violent and bloodthirsty , he had promised his followers to give them a land flowing with milk and honey ’ . |