Example sentences of "[conj] he [verb] give [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spunk accepts a glass or two of firewater and is led to the sack , where he proceeds to give her the pasting of a lifetime . |
| 2 | I 'm very fond of Mel , although he 's given me some hard times . |
| 3 | It was when he attempted to argue , ‘ I would n't be bothered if I never had another ride in the National , ’ that he began to give himself away . |
| 4 | Dad and I went in and Mr Vulcan explained that he wished to give me the harmonium and that there was a clean bed upstairs if we wanted it . |
| 5 | The room that he 'd given her was smaller than his own , but she got a bigger wardrobe . |
| 6 | All that he had to give her with his mind and body was sucked out of him into her . |
| 7 | Thus , for example , when meeting the TUC General Council in January 1942 he warned that he could not put money towards the elderly ‘ at the cost of the children ’ and that he had to give them ‘ fair treatment without ruining the country ’ . |
| 8 | But he was so scared of them getting his own father that he had given them no names at all , not even his own . |
| 9 | Several women friends of Waddell said that he had given them within days of the murder large sums of money ; and a barman to whom Waddell had given £1000 for safe keeping said Waddell had told him he had won a packet on the horses . |
| 10 | Just for a moment she let her hand linger on his sleeve , then slowly withdrew it , wondering if she was glad or sorry that he had given her such an insight into what made him the man he was today . |
| 11 | Han Dongfang , leader of the workers ' organization during the Tiananmen Square protests , who was held without trial for two years until released on bail for medical treatment in April , was exempted from prosecution on the grounds that he had given himself up , the agency said . |
| 12 | Now he knew that he had given her what he had , and no one could give more . |
| 13 | From under her cloak , Maisie took the scroll of paper that he had given her back in August . |
| 14 | Captain Duro was anxious to start the return voyage as soon as possible in order to avoid the equinoctial gales , and now that he had given his permission , Gerald saw no reason to delay his daughter 's departure further . |
| 15 | As a result of the meeting Devi Lal apparently believed he had the Prime Minister 's approval to reinstate his son , although Singh subsequently denied that he had given his approval to such a move . |
| 16 | What had really confused everyone was the fact that Kemp always carried a hip-flask of brandy in the car 's glove compartment , and that he had given his wife — trapped by the legs beside him — several sips from this flask before the ambulance arrived ; and had even drunk from it himself ! |
| 17 | He replied that he had given it verbally to a police sergeant , but that he must have forgotten about it . |
| 18 | Now all I 'm saying is that he undertook to give us those in forty eight hours . |
| 19 | If a detainee tells a FME that he wishes to give him confidential information , he is warned by the doctor that confidentiality does not apply to anything against the public interest , for it would be improper for the doctor to collude in deception . |
| 20 | Er , special thanks also to Neil for all support and encouragement that he 's given me . |
| 21 | On the machine build that he 's given me for this year , of which that is an example . |
| 22 | But you 're taking a , a , a G P's word for it , that these tablets that he 's given you are gon na help you through the emotional pain |
| 23 | that he 's given you ? |
| 24 | The talks were going very well and Smith said that he wanted to give us a holiday and take us to Victoria Falls in his plane . |
| 25 | He wants me to feel , day after day , the pain and misery that he has given me . |
| 26 | I for one value the friendship that he has given me in the eight and a half years that I have been a Member of the House , despite the fact that we are in different parties and disagree on many issues . |
| 27 | A husband , for instance , may fail to realise that he has given his career or ministry a higher priority than his wife . |
| 28 | Hazel was beginning to feel that all would be well and that Bigwig had more sense than he had given him credit for , when Fiver sat up on his hind legs , cleaned his face with his paws and then , for the first time , looked directly at him . |
| 29 | Leon , returning rather later than he had given anyone to understand , thought it politic to take the path through the far paddock and enter the stable yard via the muck heap . |
| 30 | Does the Secretary of State not accept that our valley councils have lost more in rate support grant over the past 10 years than he has given them in new money in the latest package ? |