Example sentences of "[pron] gave his " in BNC.
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| 1 | I gave his wife some mulberries last autumn and I know he trusts us with the petrol allowance and anyway this beastly rationing should be over soon , so I know I should n't complain when some people have had it much worse up in town . |
| 2 | I gave his message to the despatcher and added , ‘ We 're reversing now , going slowly . ’ |
| 3 | Cos I I gave his name to this guy organizing the one world week . |
| 4 | ' 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 ) . |
| 5 | Thick dark hair begged to have fingers run through it , but the wide mouth was still dominated by the thickness of his lower lip , which gave his face such potent sexuality . |
| 6 | Yet , Bauthumley felt his own humble social position was one which gave his voice special importance : |
| 7 | The only minor manifestation which gave his game away , was the filth under his yellow , smoke-dyed nails . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | The leaders of the Trades Union Congress , governors of the BBC , the Archbishops of York and Canterbury , to say nothing of grand figures like the former foreign secretary , Lord Halifax , the former chancellor and home secretary who gave his name to the wartime Anderson shelter , Lord Waverley , and the sainted Lady Violet Bonham Carter were all against . |
| 11 | Rodrigo was yet but a youth , and the Count was a mighty man in arms , one who gave his voice first in the Cortes , and was held to be the best in the war , and so powerful that he had a thousand friends among the mountains . |
| 12 | An ex-mason , who gave his evidence to the working party , wrote of ‘ a beautiful sense of lightness and freedom I experienced when that oppression was lifted . ’ |
| 13 | This double reduction was formalized by Patrick Dunleavy , who gave his book Urban Political Analysis ( 1980b ) the subtitle ‘ The politics of collective consumption ’ . |
| 14 | Two nights later , Derek was having a drink in the same hotel when the same person approached him accompanied by a second man who gave his name as Alexander Atkins . |
| 15 | The popular critical response was probably best summed up by Robert Wagner , who gave his readers fair warning : |
| 16 | The morning session was concluded by John Davis who gave his views on the future of the European display scene . |
| 17 | Thus resulted in a correspondence with Mr D.S.V. Fosten , who gave his opinion that is was a rare specimen of an other ranks ' jacket of the period , and that the wings and blue grenade patches were unlike any he had ever seen . |
| 18 | Police have arrested a man who gave his name as … |
| 19 | From the first example you should have found This method of setting out sets was thought out by a mathematician named Venn , who gave his name to the " Venn diagram " . |
| 20 | Osman ( Uthman ) I , who gave his name to the Ottoman empire , inherited the crumbling Seljuk patrimony at the end of the fourteenth century . |
| 21 | One was founded by William Batty , who gave his name to one epithet for madness . |
| 22 | Firstly , there are the so-called pronouns of laziness ( Geach , 1962 : 125ff ) , as in Karttunen 's well-known sentence ( see Lyons , 1977a : 673ff ) : ( 93 ) The man who gave his paycheck to his wife was wiser than the man who gave it to his mistress where it is not co-referential with his paycheck , but refers to what a repetition of that NP would have referred to ( namely the paycheck of the man whose mistress got it ) if it had occurred in place of it . |
| 23 | The Rev. Joseph Edelson , a controversial Anglo-Catholic who gave his name to the house , was vicar of Gainford for 40 years but he also had other interests . |
| 24 | It was alleged that MacIver , who gave his address as c/o 471 Maryhill Road , Glasgow , had told PC Smith he wanted to give a full statement . |
| 25 | A not-proven verdict was returned on a charge against Murdo MacIver , 29 , who gave his address as c/o 471 Maryhill Road , Glasgow , of assaulting and abducting a Ross-shire lorry driver , Donald Beaton . |
| 26 | But on one occasion she had a visitor , to whom she gave his portion , packing some egg sandwiches in the pudding basin and covering it as usual . |
| 27 | Her movements brisk and businesslike though her mind was imitating a tumble-drier , she gave his sleeping-bag another quick but thorough shake and spread it out over the mattress . |
| 28 | 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 . ’ |
| 29 | The man had colour television , false teeth worth two hundred pounds ; he gave his friend a record player for a wedding present . |
| 30 | 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 ) . |