Example sentences of "[Wh pn] gave he " in BNC.
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1 | By Monday , Ben was terribly ill and , once more , we took him to our vet , who gave him an antihistamine injection . |
2 | He had been runner-up on several occasions during his 20 years with Smith , but it was Sheelagh Boon 's six-year-old Smart Move who gave him his first win when taking the Senior Newcomers Championship . |
3 | Curiously , Abbado is succeeding the man who gave him his first big break . |
4 | He went to see the Bishop of Durham , who gave him tea . |
5 | AJOURNALIST was yesterday ordered by the High Court to identify a source who gave him commercially sensitive information . |
6 | But he could justify this because there were other Scots besides Elder , drawn from the ranks of the leading politicians , who gave him the same message . |
7 | One of the men he approached was Spurgeon who gave him this characteristic response : ‘ I sit on my own gate , and whistle my own tunes , and am quite content . ’ |
8 | Ollivier had already been forced to remake his Ministry , which was now weakened by the presence of many who gave him only grudging support , and this in turn forced him to rely more and more on the Emperor 's personal intervention when difficulties arose . |
9 | Indeed , it was the Moors who gave him the title by which he is best known , a contraction of the Arabic sid-y , meaning ‘ my lord ’ . |
10 | The narrator Michael , an elderly bachelor living in genteel poverty , describes his ‘ castle in the air ’ ; in it he has married Christiana , the girl who gave him up when he was disinherited , while John Spatter , who cheated him out of his business , remains his friend and partner . |
11 | Alexander sought the advice of numerous doctors and voice trainers who gave him different medicines or voice exercises , but this only brought him temporary relief . |
12 | It is not known who gave him the letter but it was to set him off on the road to fame and fortune . |
13 | The story tells how the beggar was rejected by all except an old couple who gave him food and shelter for the night , and the punishment he wrought upon the villagers . |
14 | After all , the chairman of a transport conglomerate which had tipped hundreds of thousands into party funds would not thank a prime minister who gave him the same reward as a Blackpool entertainer . |
15 | Daniel Stoneman has defied the doctors who gave him a one-in-10 chance of survival from a rare brain tumour . |
16 | Recently Colin became friends with a bona fide shaman , Davide , who gave him a dose of ‘ ayahuasca ’ . |
17 | It was James I who gave him the epithet ‘ judicious ’ and enjoined his son , the future King Charles 1 , to study his works . |
18 | LITTLE battler Matthew Costen is going home in triumph — after defying doctors who gave him a fortnight to live . |
19 | He had to rely on a kind-hearted local butcher who gave him two chickens a week to build up his strength . |
20 | During an extended period of wandering in the sky world , Litaw met Inabay , who gave him some dust from her eyes . |
21 | THE MAN WHO GAVE HIM HIS NAME |
22 | Three years later it was she who gave him his passport , from the limbo of a long RAF demobilisation process , to the West End . |
23 | It has recently been pointed out by Dr J. R. Studd that ‘ one of [ the Lord ] Edward 's greatest problems was his inability to settle lands from his appanage [ of Gascony and the isle of Oléron ] on those who gave him loyal service in a traditional way ’ . |
24 | His interest in archaeology led him into contact with Flinders Petrie , for whom he worked as an assistant from 1892 , and who gave him his first experience in excavation . |
25 | A lonely childhood , a youthful longing for adventure , made it easy enough for Dick to lay aside his devotion to an almost legendary father and to dedicate himself to the service of a man who gave him the emotional security and incentive he had lacked for so long . |
26 | He was a very nice man and popular with the journalists , who gave him a ragged but friendly cheer for turning up on time . |
27 | Indeed , he despised those who gave him counsel . |
28 | He met up with old colleagues such as Mike Evans and Graham Knight who gave him a typically ex-London welcome . |
29 | Her husband gave out she 'd perished of some wasting disease , and duly married someone else , less beautiful but more docile , who gave him twelve children . ’ |
30 | He had been given curious looks by the person who gave him the directions which show that he was a stranger as he was not recognised . |