Example sentences of "to give him " in BNC.
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| 31 | Nigel 's wife was obviously such a monster , too , that it had to be any good woman 's Christian duty to save him from a fate worse than death , or at the very least to give him a little light relief . |
| 32 | It was n't a full one , but it was enough to give him a little pain . |
| 33 | Perhaps she only meant she did n't want to give him her cold . |
| 34 | My Japanese friends wonder at my passion , because he is not very well known and not very successful , though when he visited Paris with his fellow sumotori he was at once called ‘ the Japanese Alain Delon ’ — to my mind , an insult to my hero , but for a while that kind of adulation seemed to give him a little of the confidence he needed , and on his return to Japan he delighted me by winning an unusually high number of contests . |
| 35 | Once , I was round his house when the district nurse came to give him his iron injection . |
| 36 | ‘ As soon as I 've rung my Orderly Officer to give him certain instructions , I 'll have to get off back . ’ |
| 37 | They started to give him more advice . |
| 38 | Clarissa could only say glumly that according to the newspapers , the Finns were doing very well at any rate , and how mean Charles 's officers were not to give him a bit more Embarkation Leave . |
| 39 | At PRO Dogs awards dinner he looked so loveable , the urge to give him a hug was almost impossible to resist . |
| 40 | The owner of one of the most spiritual voices in music , he 's seen success beckon before only to give him the finger once he started to trust . |
| 41 | More environmentally sensitive areas could be on the way — if agriculture minister John Gummer can persuade the Treasury to give him the cash |
| 42 | As one of the party 's rural Deputies put it : ‘ If Ray proves he can do the toughest job in the EC , and he has , would n't it be foolish not to give him the opportunity to run this little country of ours ? ’ |
| 43 | His highest weighted opponent was the 1929 Preakness winner Dr Freeland with eight stone eight pounds , but the horse most fancied to give him a true test in his first race outside Australia was Spanish Play , who had won the New Orleans Handicap eight days before . |
| 44 | She flew to give him last words of advice , all of them unnecessary . |
| 45 | She knew his ways and had adapted to them and this seemed to give him a satisfaction which quietened him . |
| 46 | ‘ Yes , except that while I was pulling Harry along to that far corner to give him better support , someone opened the main door above our heads , like I told you , and then went away without saying anything , and I heard a car drive off , which might have been Harry 's . ’ |
| 47 | When the heir had done homage to the king , it was usual for the Justice of the Forest , on receipt of the appropriate writ , to take from him security for the payment of relief , and then to give him seisin of his Forest bailiwick ; the king 's escheator was ordered at the same time to hand over his lands to him , those appurtenant to his forestership , and whatever others he might hold in chief by other service . |
| 48 | ‘ Ought n't we to give him just five minutes ? ’ |
| 49 | The majority thought differently , however , and voted to give him the heave-ho in Labour 's favour by a margin of nine per cent . |
| 50 | The result also appears to be a vindication of his gamble to delay the election until almost the last moment in the hope that signs of economic recovery would persuade voters to give him a mandate . |
| 51 | He was standing there with Mrs Kasmin as she tried to give him tea . |
| 52 | In October , riding high after the August coup , he forced deputies to give him emergency powers to appoint the government and rule by decree for a year . |
| 53 | He told us not to turn around and to give him our money and jewellery or he would kill us . ’ |
| 54 | He is on course to secure a clear majority among the union block votes in Labour 's electoral college to give him a clear advantage in the battle to succeed Mr Kinnock . |
| 55 | Carlie decided to give him one more chance . |
| 56 | Cameron wanted to give him a computer , but Alexia prevailed and soon the house was full of twangs and scales again . |
| 57 | However , he records with thankfulness that it ‘ pleased God not only to keep me from them ’ , but also to give him a friend whose example of zeal and practical godliness was of great spiritual help to him . |
| 58 | The enclosed experiments will , I doubt not , excuse this my freedom in endeavouring to give him this opportunity of becoming acquainted with you . |
| 59 | Their desire to escape the rain might hurry their attack — not much but enough to give him a small advantage . |
| 60 | I had no need to give him twenty Thousand Pound to marry me , which had been buying my Lodging too dear a great deal . ’ |