Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] gave he " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rain was pelting him relentlessly and he may have been as well to have had no clothes at all for all the protection his gave him . |
| 2 | But I said I am the money I gave him his first flying lesson , I paid for it , like I bought his first three cars . |
| 3 | He is still at sea with the silver I gave him to discover fresh treasure . |
| 4 | The greatest pleasure I gave him was the fact that nobody knew about me . |
| 5 | In return for Jos 's labour he gave him bed and board . ’ |
| 6 | The only sign he ever gave that anything was amiss in his family was the number of times he got out his thumbnail-sized pipe for the comfort of the single puff it gave him . |
| 7 | He enjoyed her body , though he would n't allow himself to dwell on the pleasure it gave him , and being away from her , even for one day , was a kind of purgatory . |
| 8 | True , he was an All-State footballer which gave him some excitement and fun ; but he always stayed in Neptune with Lorraine and with Mud . |
| 9 | is that the milky bar I gave him ? |
| 10 | He said that he 'd telephoned every gallery I gave him the name of . |
| 11 | Mr Cross walked to the signal box at Girvan and waited until the train was belled off Kilkerran which gave him sufficient time to drive to Pinmore . |
| 12 | The narrator Michael , an elderly bachelor living in genteel poverty , describes his ‘ castle in the air ’ ; in it he has married Christiana , the girl who gave him up when he was disinherited , while John Spatter , who cheated him out of his business , remains his friend and partner . |
| 13 | He should have read the writing on the machine they gave him to spin the golden thread . |
| 14 | Nicholson , while rejecting Corman as his ‘ mentor ’ gladly acknowledges the start and subsequent ten years ' work he gave him . |
| 15 | ‘ Did you get very far with Wickham last night , Rain ? ’ he asked and was confounded by the stunned look she gave him . |
| 16 | Since his win in 1987 , Swindon has grown , changing the complexion of a town which gave him a majority ofjust 5,000 . |
| 17 | Stan started to sell his fossil finds to the museum and with the money he earned he was able to buy tools and a microscope which gave him a further insight into the subject . |
| 18 | FURIOUS Nigel Mansell ended his Formula One career yesterday with a blast at the team which gave him the World Drivers ' Championship . |
| 19 | Colonel Haldane , with considerable vindictiveness , though undoubtedly to make an example to deter others from doing the like , set out to ruin him , and removed him from the place which gave him his living on grounds of redundancy , and replaced him with one of his own friends . |
| 20 | ‘ You mean the work of Mr Clancy , ’ said Peggy , as he stood up and took the towel she gave him . |
| 21 | He had been runner-up on several occasions during his 20 years with Smith , but it was Sheelagh Boon 's six-year-old Smart Move who gave him his first win when taking the Senior Newcomers Championship . |
| 22 | I did n't go because I was suddenly seized by an overwhelming passion for him , we did n't make love on the tiger-skin rug in that little box of a room you gave him , his pear-shaped body pressed against my ageing but still voluptuous frame . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ With his left hand he snatched the gun from the Pole 's hands , and with his right he gave him a violent blow to the ear . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ From tomorrow , Sarah , I should like you to wear your hair in the style in which it was dressed when you attended the service at the Foundling Hospital , ’ he said , forcing the smile which gave him a jovial reputation . |
| 25 | It is not open to Mr Tillson subsequently to say that he had no need of a tenancy of the occupied land because he already had a possessory title which gave him a freehold interest in that land … |
| 26 | But it was the patronage of Sir John Coke [ q.v. ] , one of the principal secretaries of state from 1625 to 1639 , which lay behind his rise to complete control of foreign and domestic posts in the 1630s ; and it was that achievement which gave him the opportunity both to create a new postal service and to acquire an estate in Essex worth £800 a year . |
| 27 | That heart is Welsh , and it is his Welshness which gave him an inner security that enabled him to come this far . |
| 28 | But it was the ability to become a socially responsible landlord which gave him most satisfaction . |
| 29 | We bought him and his friends a drink which gave him a chance to quiz us on our movements for the next day . |
| 30 | This was the bond which gave him a warm and interested reception . |