Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] give he [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Further postings gave him experience of Muslims and heathens in Central Sumatra , and he finally became Resident Adviser to the Netherlands East India government at Batavia ( 1945-48 ) . |
2 | ‘ It is not the least of the tributes to President Clinton that he won the election despite Europe 's most frequent losers giving him advice . ’ |
3 | ‘ It is not the least of the tributes to President Clinton that he won the election despite Europe 's most frequent losers giving him advice ’ |
4 | But if the woman cotton worker were married to a miner or an engineer , then the husband usually refused to do housework , his substantially higher earnings gave him breadwinner status and , notwithstanding his wife 's employment , the right to leisure while at home . |
5 | He was well noticed , he had the beginnings of a fan-club , and back home the Welsh papers gave him full-page spreads . |
6 | The American ones gave him degrees , |
7 | The Gotobeds were n't hard people , the young ladies gave him sweets and toys and made a real pet of him , but they could n't comfort him , and in the end they said he could go back home one day . |
8 | NORWEGIAN explorer Erling Kagge , 29 , aiming to become the first person to walk alone to the South Pole , left Oslo yesterday after piling on 18lbs of fat with huge meals to give him energy resources for his two months on the ice trekking 814 miles across the Antarctica . |