Example sentences of "he [vb past] give it " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had given her the capital for the first one on their twentieth wedding anniversary , when he had already bought a Georgian pendant that he dearly wished her to have , but before he chanced giving it to her he had asked her what she would like , and she told him . |
| 2 | He 'd applied to join the police in his final year at university ; it had been an unfashionable thing to do but he 'd given it a lot of careful thought . |
| 3 | ‘ You might cook him a wonderful pie and then you 'd find he 'd given it to a drunken beggar , and no matter how kind you thought him after a while you 'd want to kill him . |
| 4 | He knew exactly where he wished to slot his explosive , and how long a fuse he needed to give it . |
| 5 | But he knew they 're bred for working and when he retired he decided to give it a go . |
| 6 | He had given it up for his very inferior car when he started courting Big Brenda out of the Biology lab — Biological Brenda , as Preston called her , who gave them lessons on sex , and no doubt Sam as well . |
| 7 | Of his conscious will he had given it nothing , except a single ruler where there had been two . |
| 8 | But he had given it all up and returned to the business world as a marketing executive . |
| 9 | He replied that he had given it verbally to a police sergeant , but that he must have forgotten about it . |
| 10 | Then , the moment he had given it up , the old Hunt returned . |
| 11 | He had given it to his youngest daughter , Margaret , when she trained as a nurse at Benedict 's just after the last World War . |
| 12 | Once she had tried to describe these feelings to Brian , but , while he had been prepared to admit that her mother was virtually certifiable , he had given it as his opinion that her father had been a remarkable man and a fine artist and richly entitled to his eccentricities : indeed , it had been incumbent on him , Brian had implied , to flout the conventions . |
| 13 | His anger was real but so continuously felt that once he had given it adequate ( in his own mind ) expression , it ceased to modify his actions . |
| 14 | When he opened it moths flew out and he had to give it a good clean to get rid of the cobwebs and years of dust that had settled inside . |
| 15 | So he could n't keep it going any longer and he had to give it up , so he 's on the dole again . |
| 16 | he said give it away . |
| 17 | Must remember that phrase : he could see it had struck and it struck him too : he paused to give it the silent applause of a mute punctuation . |
| 18 | Nicholson could not now appear in the film because he was too old for the original role which had been designated for him , and anyway he wanted to give it his fullest attention as director . |
| 19 | He wanted to give it a space-age look so , apparently , he went to one of the companies here which specialises in metal research for NASA . ’ |
| 20 | You could n't get fatter than he was in gold , and he wanted to give it all away to the revolution ; he was Malatesta 's friend , and Malatesta parted him from his money , sweet and easy does it -all they got for their pains was years of exile and prison , and a few dead policemen . ’ |
| 21 | So a lawyer came , and of course I had my own office , confidential stuff , so he wanted to give it to me . |