Example sentences of "give his [noun sg] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He thinks that he wants a reconciliation , and up to a point he does ; but what he hopes most of all is that Alfred will give his blessing to the new play he has written — a drama of sibling rivalry called Brother Mine . |
| 2 | Already , as cardinal , he had encouraged Pope Alexander 11 to give his blessing to the Norman invasion of England . |
| 3 | His voice trailed as he recalled giving his name to the anonymous diplomat during his earlier call to the Iranian Embassy in Paris . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | Jacques Delors , the Commission President , gave his name to the new Report which was produced in April 1989 . |
| 7 | Osman ( Uthman ) I , who gave his name to the Ottoman empire , inherited the crumbling Seljuk patrimony at the end of the fourteenth century . |
| 8 | Because David II , the new infant king , or his regent reneged on some of the terms of the treaty of Northampton , Edward gave his support to the rival claimant , Edward Balliol . |