Example sentences of "[noun pl] give him [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His Etonian vowels give him a peculiar aural resemblance to Brian Johnston of Test Match Special ( imagine Johnners talking about what an axe can do to the flesh and you will have some idea of just how disorienting this is ) . |
| 2 | Tolonen was getting to his feet , one of the guards giving him a hand . |
| 3 | And Irina , although her speech remained ironic , scolding , teasing , her eyes gave him a welcome which stirred his heart . |
| 4 | The red-and-white skull-cap above the monkey eyes gave him the air of a performing chimpanzee . |
| 5 | These early months gave him a brutally clear idea of what lay ahead . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The soft lines of the sweatshirt that moulded the broad shoulders gave him an air of easy , masculine power , and the blue almost exactly matched the blue of his eyes . |
| 8 | He wore no tie , but the effect of his neat sleeked-back hair and thick-framed spectacles gave him the look of a rather stern and learned professor . |
| 9 | The British Ambassador , Anthony Parsons , a man whose heavy spectacles gave him an amiable academic appearance , was an Arabist who had been in Iran since 1974 . |
| 10 | On his first night back , his parents give him a party , to which they invite their circle of middle-class , middle-aged friends . |
| 11 | Craig ran his hand through his hair so that it sprung into small curls giving him a rakish appearance . |
| 12 | Story-tellers gave him the title The Blessed , in reference to his many artistic talents , for Bran was a gifted harpist and poet . |
| 13 | ( Act 1 scene 3 ) And , only three lines after this , the theme of belief in the power of evil is shown by Macbeth when he says that the witches gave him the Thanehood when it was actually the king . |
| 14 | I mean you could use group investments , I mean what you did with the investment trusts gives him a better spread , |
| 15 | The explicit lines gave him a twisted perception of British women , a court heard yesterday . |
| 16 | As no temporary accommodation could be found for him in Štanjel my parents gave him a room in our house ; his family joined him there when we left . |
| 17 | ‘ Poor Mangan , ’ Father Poole would sigh , ‘ the street-arabs gave him an awful time — and I was one of them , God forgive me . ’ |
| 18 | Nails gave him a drying-up towel to put round his neck . |
| 19 | A ‘ stringer ’ is n't just a freelance — it 's a correspondent based away from head office whose local contacts give him an on-the-spot usefulness which far surpasses that of a reporter sent out from head office . ’ |
| 20 | He was the only Ryan to wear glasses , which he was forever pushing higher on his nose , the thick lenses giving him an owlish appearance . |
| 21 | He smiled benignly at Matthew , his quiff of white hair and heavy black-framed glasses giving him the air of a learned cockatoo . |
| 22 | Abu Khadra 's heavily boned face and strong rectangular glasses gave him a slightly fearsome appearance . |
| 23 | Even the lady who stood on the corner handing out white feathers gave him an approving nod . |
| 24 | Despite the record unpopularity of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney , the 2,500 delegates gave him a warm reception as he promised a third consecutive PCP victory in the federal elections due in 1993 . |
| 25 | And those eyes that seemed to dance and scowl at the same time from beneath their fringe of long dark lashes gave him a restless , unpredictable air . |
| 26 | Nine wins and four draws from thirteen games give him a score of 11 points , three points ahead of Viktor Korchnoi in second place . |
| 27 | He held his hand to his mouth in mock apology as both girls gave him a straight look . |
| 28 | The girls gave him a challenge that they would achieve £81k worth of sales by the end of the third quarter , and they did ! |
| 29 | These words might have had Philip Grey of Warwick University Bookshop strung up for high treason a decade or so ago , but such are the realities of recession that far from stringing him up , CUBs gave him a whole session in which to address the question of Who Needs Books ? |
| 30 | It was doubtful whether his preaching saved many souls , but enough of the navvies gave him a polite hearing to satisfy his missionary urges . |