Example sentences of "given he [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was quite frank about the whole thing , told us H. had given him a fiver to turn up , asked Madge if she wanted to go through with it , which of course she did n't . |
| 2 | He has , however , given him a psychotic compulsion to formulate fanciful similes . |
| 3 | Certainly Eliot 's studies in Sanskrit and Pali at Harvard under Lanman and Woods had given him a thorough knowledge of Indian thought , but it is probable that Kipling 's version of metempsychosis had at least an equally important effect . |
| 4 | We would have fished Tony out two or three kilometres down after the water had knocked him around a bit , and given him a dreadful bootful since he was wearing his Lundhags . |
| 5 | Odd-Knut has given him a hunting knife , and pointed him at the trees . |
| 6 | ‘ Are you out of your … ? his father stopped and looked in a startled manner at his mother , who had given him a sharp dig , then began to cough . |
| 7 | But Jack did n't know that and , even if he had known , it would only have given him a false feeling of security , because the threat from streptomycin , when it came , was not of a hind that he could have imagined or foreseen . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's given him a slightly orangey colour . |
| 9 | But she knew her hesitation had given him a lead . |
| 10 | That house had given him a headache . |
| 11 | ‘ Lots of them did n't , ’ said Lee , running down the passage and into the kitchen that Philip had been in yesterday morning where Mrs Wright had given him a cup of tea . |
| 12 | He cut in on a man who was starting to chat her up — someone who had once given him a bad review . |
| 13 | X-ray fluorescence ( XRE ) analysis ( see glossary ) of solders used on Roman silver suggests that the Roman silversmith did indeed use several different solders which could have given him a working temperature range from the melting point of silver ( 960°C ) , down to 180°C . |
| 14 | Sam had given him a warning kick , but Biff , overhearing the remark , gave a grim smile . |
| 15 | The Amstrad PCW he bought for writing letters when handwriting became too difficult has given him a new interest in life . |
| 16 | The couple were taken to police headquarters for questioning where they admitted they had picked up a man on the night of 10 July by the harbour but did not know him and had only given him a lift into town . |
| 17 | Though I wish you 'd given him a different name . |
| 18 | I leave at 7.30am and by 8am have checked Skipper over and given him a small handful of feed in his manger ( which seems to keep him happy when other horses are fed and means I do n't have to wait an hour for him to digest a full feed ) . |
| 19 | He has since got used to only having one sighted eye although it has given him a few recurring infections . |
| 20 | His attempt to murder her seemed to have given him a new strength in the relationship . |
| 21 | He was not a big man — only about five feet seven inches tall — but his years as a coachsmith had given him a body that was all muscle with not an ounce of fat . |
| 22 | Pedalling up to the office in the mornings , with the bike wheels crunching on the thick white frost , I would arrive with bright red cheeks and breath coming out like steam , and once the Met Officer commented , after I had given him a cheerful , early morning smile , ‘ You do n't know what a difference it makes to your face when you smile ! |
| 23 | What startled spectator did not know was that a chiropractor on the Olympic Staff had given him a spinal adjustment immediately after the accident . |
| 24 | After leaving school he had been unable to settle , had wandered from place to place and had eventually landed up in Borstal , where his crimes had given him a reputation for toughness and ruthlessness which he had felt compelled to live up to ( although at the same time hating it and himself ) . |
| 25 | Perhaps his teacher should have given him a better word than ‘ tidgy ’ , but they both knew what they meant . |
| 26 | So she had forced the issue , and given him a command . |
| 27 | I 've given him a couple of garters for his socks . |
| 28 | However , his blazing indignation appears to have given him a nasty dose of alliterative-itis in a NUPE press release condemning the report as ‘ more market madness mirroring the mayhem in the mines ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ Could you have given him a home ? ’ |
| 30 | The Ministry of Defence confirmed last night that the Army had finally lost patience and given him a month 's notice to quit . |