Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] give him " in BNC.
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| 1 | Early in life he went from school to school , sometimes half across Europe ; then he looked for patronage to give him a livelihood . |
| 2 | JOHN MAJOR today headed for a tough showdown with his predecessor Baroness Thatcher after MPs gave him the go-ahead to ratify the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 3 | The day after doctors gave him their cautious opinion Roy gave away prizes for yet another cancer research fund-raising effort . |
| 4 | Almost immediately Philip , realising what an opportunity such an appeal for help gave him , declared that he would make no lasting settlement with England unless the Scots were included in it . |
| 5 | If , however , the Chancellor was hoping for a variety of opinions to give him maximum freedom of manoeuvre in next month 's Budget , he will be only too happy with the report . |
| 6 | The Minotaur was finally slain by Theseus , who found his way out of the labyrinth by trailing a skein of thread given him by the king 's daughter , ARIADNE . |
| 7 | Gardening and agricultural production , unlike trading , were safe from government intervention , and his mixture of activities gave him some security should his job or his shop come under threat . |
| 8 | It was held that the settlor had retained an interest in the accumulated income because the payments of income gave him the benefit of being able to withdraw his capital deposited at the bank . |
| 9 | Afterwards , the people of Haworth gave him a gold watch . |
| 10 | ‘ residential occupier , ’ in relation to any premises , means a person occupying the premises as a residence , whether under a contract or by virtue of any enactment or rule of law giving him the right to remain in occupation or restricting the right of any other person to recover possession of the premises . |
| 11 | 1 ( 1 ) In this section " residential occupier " , in relation to any premises , means a person occupying the premises as a residence , whether under a contract or by virtue of any enactment or rule of law giving him the right to remain in occupation or restricting the right of any other person to recover possession of the premises . |
| 12 | Under his bed he had a complete medicine chest , full of stuff given him by a veterinary friend in Palm Beach . |
| 13 | Othello 's vision of Iago gives him total credit : With the vision of Iago , Othello also takes over his language , as critics have long noted , with its bestial images , but also his attitudes , especially a generalized distrust of women . |
| 14 | A survey in the crucial state of Ohio gave him a slender lead . |
| 15 | As for the supposedly devastating impact of the John Major Diary in Private Eye , of which I am also a co-author , I can only say that , despite the article 's prediction , it did not seem to stand in the way of a gratifying number of people giving him their enthusiastic support on Thursday — including myself . |
| 16 | Hanson was let out of Leyhill to give him a chance to get used to life outside prior to release . |
| 17 | Nails liked her company better than that of his father ; his new way of life gave him considerable satisfaction . |
| 18 | I was delighted that the people of Britain gave him such a marvellous reception . |
| 19 | Readers will soon discern , on page 42 if not earlier , that in the personality of Quisling they are faced with a thundering , breathtaking , unsurpassable bore : ‘ He lacked a sense of humour to give him balance . ’ |
| 20 | But then the pointlessness of unemployment gave him no pleasure . |
| 21 | Where a defendant in the face of evidence that a woman demonstrated lack of consent , alleges belief in consent on the basis of information given him by a third party , he may well , whether expressly or impliedly , be appealing to the idea of female masochism . |
| 22 | Being out of school gave him a wonderful feeling . |
| 23 | Kewenig has persuaded the state of Berlin to give him DM 11 million ( nearly £3 million ) to ‘ establish some centres of excellence , and attract more first class researchers to Berlin ’ . |
| 24 | Gilbert Elliot , second Earl of Minto [ q.v. ] , while staying in Geneva in 1821 , recorded an account of Schweppe given him by François Hubert , the blind Swiss naturalist , an old friend of Schweppe in Bouchet . |
| 25 | It was pitiful , the broken blade of a dagger that he had bound with strips of rag to give him a handle , and sharpened as best he could on the edge of the stone under the window ; the worn hollow , paler in colour , was there to be seen . |
| 26 | The seven evenings under Temple gave him not much new , because he had read Temple . |
| 27 | Foreman agreed to link up with Stafford to give him the chance to attract another League club . |
| 28 | On a larger scale one might observe that his lifelong preoccupation with words gave him a kind of sensitivity to them , even if it was an unorthodox one ; and further that it is strange that a myth should so make its way if enshrined and embodied in words as inappropriate as critics have made out . |
| 29 | Apart from anything else , there is no doubt that Joni 's meeting with Berenson gave him access to a circle of wealthy collectors , like Dan Fellows Platt , and scholars and researchers , such as Frederic Mason Perkins . |
| 30 | The outbreak of war with England gave him his great chance and on 7 December 1775 he was commissioned lieutenant in what was soon to become the US Navy . |