Example sentences of "to give his " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is in his interest to speak against us , to force up rents , not fix them fairly , to give his friends a charter to chop down our forests . |
| 2 | Whereas Symphonic Variations flows onwards in simple serenity , Ashton , following Rachmaninov , here uses an enormous variety of steps and constantly changes the choreographic phrasing to reflect the increasing or diminishing sounds and to match the tempi of the melody , in order to give his enchaînements light and shade and to indicate the sheer complexity of the orchestration . |
| 3 | Dauberval is said to have borrowed steps and gestures from such people to give his ballet greater reality . |
| 4 | ‘ I would kill that damned old woman without a single twinge of conscience , ’ says the former , and proceeds to give his reasons . |
| 5 | Lord Aldington , 75 , a frail and stooping figure , was allowed to give his evidence while seated . |
| 6 | JOE JACKSON Over from New York to give his first London performances for three years . |
| 7 | Larkins , who made 103 before retiring to give his team-mates a bat , could not have wished for a better comeback , and with Robin Smith making a stylish 70 , England made 263 for four from 50 overs . |
| 8 | She would send him off to some lecturing engagement with butter and other rations to give his hostess , and when he came back the rations would be found as a soggy mess in his pocket . |
| 9 | The title Duke of Cornwall and the estate to go with it dates back to 1337 , when Edward III created it to give his eldest son , the Black Prince , an income and somewhere to live ; it was he who decreed that it should always go to the eldest son . |
| 10 | Earlier in the week Pipe was not sure to give his Gold Cup candidate a race on the firm ground but the stable is in tremendous form and the inmates do not seem unduly affected by the state of the ground . |
| 11 | But his bold substitution — putting on Merson after 70 minutes to give his side a third orthodox striker — provided the missing ingredient . |
| 12 | PATRICK McENROE not only revived an old family tradition at the Royal Albert Hall yesterday but also managed to give his watching parents a welcome 33rd wedding anniversary present when he added his name to the Nabisco Masters doubles trophy . |
| 13 | To give his team some credibility without upsetting Milan , Libregts may give Rijkaard and Van Basten half a game , but much will depend on Wouters , Van Tiggelen , Kieft and Ellerman . |
| 14 | Tim Reagan , who would not have dared to give his French wife as little time as Claudia Yeo got , murmured that this was of course important and good luck to them , indeed . |
| 15 | He has a blessing to give his eldest and favourite son , but it is a poor thing compared with Jacob 's , so poor it is hardly recognizable as a blessing and could be taken for a curse : |
| 16 | Koons hopes to give his work mass appeal with Cicciolina 's help . |
| 17 | So if you approach a sympathetic , but so far neutral , person and start telling him that he ought to give his support because of x , y and z policies he is likely to be bored and irritated . |
| 18 | The following year Parker paid his first visit to America to give his own series of lectures on non-religious topics such as ‘ Mr Gladstone ’ or ‘ Clocks and Watches ’ . |
| 19 | On the first Wednesday morning of every month — with the exception of the months in which Easter and Christmas fell — it was the custom for the incumbent pastor to give his own account of the massacre , or read out an account left by a predecessor . |
| 20 | Mr Kinnock again declined to give his personal view about electoral reform lest the debate he initiated within the party two years ago became a test of loyalty to his leadership . |
| 21 | With a treble which had caused major problems in the first round included in the jump-off course , Raymakers could not afford to go at racing pace but it certainly looked hot enough to give his rival something to think about . |
| 22 | At the Cabinet meeting at which he was supposed to give his formal resignation letter to Mr Shamir , Mr Levy said instead : ‘ The agreement is to my full satisfaction . ’ |
| 23 | MR KINNOCK returned to his Islwyn constituency last night to give his most electrifying performance of the election campaign , claiming that , after years in the political wilderness , Labour 's values were about to join forces with the popular vote in an historic victory . |
| 24 | All but six Cabinet ministers were moved or replaced as Mr Major took the opportunity provided by winning his own mandate to give his senior team a personal stamp . |
| 25 | Sir Peter Ramsbotham , Foreign Office high-flier and Ambassador to the US in 1977 , fell to earth in Bermuda when James Callaghan wanted to give his job to his son-in-law , Peter Jay . |
| 26 | Earl Spencer is to close Althorp House to the public during the week to give his family more privacy . |
| 27 | They also included one unusual name : Donald Swift-Hook , the man who had run the CEGB 's own research effort into wind power for eight years , agreed to give his views on our behalf . |
| 28 | In any case would not the right course require me to give his advice prima facie rather than pre-emptive force ? |
| 29 | But if neither is sufficient to bring my performance up to the level of the other person then my optimific course is to give his decision pre-emptive force . |
| 30 | A young man who booked into a hostelry in London Road , Reading , and refused to give his name , was suspected . |