Example sentences of "he gave the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tchaikovsky was the first to break that mould when he gave the Sapphire Fairy ( now one of Florestan 's sisters ) a solo to a 5/4 time signature . |
| 2 | He had the most stars on his books , he had the most friends and he gave the most renowned New York parties . |
| 3 | But he could and did hold a fringe meeting with the Bow Group , where he gave the becoming speech of a statesman . |
| 4 | The other members began to find that he gave the faculty coherence and a sense of purpose . |
| 5 | He gave the union leaders the opportunity to tell him in a forthright manner where they thought he was going wrong with his policies and he in turn did some pretty plain talking about what he saw as their shortcomings . |
| 6 | Not only did Nicola Larini manage to bring the new Modena-Lamborghini through pre-qualifying and then into the race , he gave the new team more than it had thought possible by finishing seventh , albeit three laps behind . |
| 7 | In return , he gave the clearest commitment yet that the government in Bonn would not permit any tampering with the Oder-Neisse line , the border between East Germany and Poland . |
| 8 | Whether he gave the command to open fire in Vilnius and Riga or is cynically refusing to condemn the thuggery of his troops in order to put pressure on the Baltic republics , he has taken the side of order against law , acting in defiance of those republics ' legally elected parliaments . |
| 9 | He gave the impression that he was constantly looking over his shoulder at his executive which contained some hard and prickly characters . |
| 10 | He gave the following three talks . |
| 11 | He gave the gun to Mrs Wright . |
| 12 | In 1239 he gave the Forest of Dartmoor to his brother Richard , Earl of Cornwall , and his heirs , and in 1267 Amounderness and Lonsdale Forests in Lancashire and Pickering Forest in Yorkshire to his second son Edmund , Earl of Lancaster and his heirs . |
| 13 | Only the historic fact that he gave the Irish capital the first public performance of what would become the most popular of all oratorios . |
| 14 | Sir Hans also helped with maintenance ; he gave the Society £100 to repair the steps to the river and was certainly instrumental in gaining another £100 from the College of Physicians . |
| 15 | Nightside was the name he gave the side of the school with all the dormitories on because most people only went there at night . |
| 16 | He gave the Bookman a big hug and hoped they would be friends for a long , long time . |
| 17 | He gave the scientist instructions on how to return to the main part of the school . |
| 18 | Her next question would be ‘ Why ? ’ so he gave the reason without waiting : ‘ If they have you , they have your grandfather . |
| 19 | He gave the soup five minutes to warm , managed to open the can without cutting himself , and split the contents between two pint mugs . |
| 20 | ‘ He gave the man the knife . |
| 21 | When in 1574 , Rudolf II made Prague the capital of the Holy Roman Empire , he gave the Jews yet greater security . |
| 22 | Alternatively , the doctor may argue that he gave the pills to ease pain or for sleeping , and invite the court to believe him . |
| 23 | To his second , favourite son Alfonso , he gave the Kingdom of Leon and the Campos Goticos , together with the tributes from the Moorish kingdom of Toledo , whose overlord he had successfully beaten into submission only a year before . |
| 24 | To Sancho , his first-born , he gave the smaller inheritance of Castile and the tribute of Saragossa . |
| 25 | The disenfranchised local people have a vested interest in their land and their animals and plants — something President Barco of Colombia recognised recently when he gave the Indians back their forests . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , he only once travelled with the England party , to Rome in 1933 , when he gave the team a tactical talk before their clash with Italy . |
| 27 | Coleridge 's improbably romantic explanation and evident intelligence so impressed the man that he gave the remarkable child a subscription to the circulating library in Cheapside , where he began , according to his own not unlikely account , to read every book it contained . |
| 28 | In the Foreign Office the central block was adjacent to the park , while with the War Department he gave the judges alternative layouts . |
| 29 | He gave the history of the competition and suggested that one of the winning designs should be considered before Pennethorne 's , and if the Government wanted a new design they should still employ the author of the Foreign Office design to do the work . |
| 30 | By way of assistance he gave the following example : |