Example sentences of "[noun pl] have give him [art] " in BNC.
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1 | During his years at Oxford , he had spent part of his vacations in France , but those relatively short periods had given him no idea of the chaos that had prevailed since his father 's death . |
2 | The magistrates chairman told foster parents had given him a chance — it was now up to him to take it . |
3 | She remembered the evening because his parents had given him an awful sweater for his birthday and between comedy programmes on the television she and Alan thought up alternative uses for an awful sweater . |
4 | At his home at Tackley in Oxfordshire , his parents have given him a special shed to play in , with his own lock and key of course . |
5 | He looked older , she thought — more mature , as if the events and uncertainties of recent weeks had given him a maturity beyond his years . |
6 | The Galapagos islands had given him the clue by showing that small populations derived from the same original species could evolve in different directions when separated by a geographical barrier such as the ocean . |
7 | The Danes had given him the appropriately named Order of the Elephant . |
8 | He says continuing heavy losses and falling markets have given him no option but to propose that the six hundred and forty man pit should close . |
9 | By September the Franco courts had given him a twenty-year prison sentence . |
10 | He had been working at tar Processing and the fumes had given him an unpleasant skin complaint . |
11 | Griffith had come to the movies quite late in life and he came as a man whose varied experiences and whose accumulated opinions , myths , and prejudices had given him a sense of America and of himself as having a place in it . |
12 | After leaving school he had been unable to settle , had wandered from place to place and had eventually landed up in Borstal , where his crimes had given him a reputation for toughness and ruthlessness which he had felt compelled to live up to ( although at the same time hating it and himself ) . |