Sentence examples for gave him over from inspiring English sources

But his indestructibility gave him, over the years, a prophet's voice.

The two-year, $1.1 million contract the Mets gave him over the winter did that.

The glower the Giants gave him over disputed calls would have reduced a lesser man's knees to water, considering.

They betray a deeply unhealthy pleasure in the secret power his position gave him over the life of another man.

But after the bloody nose the Senate gave him over last year's budget the mood, and the strategy, of the Coalition has shifted significantly.

He parlayed his voting stake in the News Corporation, and the leverage it gave him over Mr. Murdoch, into what turned out to be a lucrative exchange for DirecTV.

A security guard gives him over a once-over before holding the elevator door open.

Indeed, how much control do his interest rate levers give him over future economic performance in the United States?

Bourdain makes much of the advantage that being a cook gives him over other chroniclers of Mallon's life.

Standing there, he sprinkled the dirt from his family's plot and tossed the stones from Jerusalem, which his sister had given him, over the precipice.

At least 22 people were killed.See articleRussia's voters duly re-elected Vladimir Putin as president, giving him over 70% of the vote.