Example sentences of "he gave [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He gave her the rake and she went vigorously at the hay while he plaited a grass rope to put round a burden and heft it down to the byre . |
| 2 | He gave her the bit of paper with the phone number on . |
| 3 | General Robert Schweitzer , who told this story to the congressional lawyers , was a trifle envious that after 58 years of daily Mass and ‘ desperate messages to the Almighty ’ he himself had never been woken up at night ‘ with lights on the wall ’ and a vision of saving Nicaragua ; he was not sure Ms Studeley had either , but he gave her the benefit of the doubt . |
| 4 | When by the third day her father had still not allowed Jessie out of her room , and Agnes confronted him , saying he could n't keep her incarcerated forever , and that if he did n't let her out then she was leaving , and that she meant it , he had gone along to his daughter 's room , taking with him a Bible , on which he made her swear that if he gave her the freedom of the house she would not attempt to leave it . |
| 5 | He helped her to make the house ready for the next occupant , and though she protested he gave her the money for her railway journey back to London . |
| 6 | He gave her the number . |
| 7 | Ricky was so furious with Perdita for deliberately sabotaging her scholarship that he gave her the sack . |
| 8 | BASKETBALL star Magic Johnson is being sued by a woman who claims he gave her the Aids virus . |
| 9 | The American admitted sleeping with the woman , but denied he gave her the killer disease . |
| 10 | He gave her the money then , and said it was part of his retainer for the season . ’ |
| 11 | He gave her the slowest , steadiest smile he could manage . |
| 12 | He gave her the chance to enter into a light dalliance but she appeared totally unaware of his subtle overtures , wholly preoccupied in not spilling the beer over the gentleman . |
| 13 | He gave her the child to hold . |
| 14 | She went to see Mr Bailey , the manager of the factory , and she was surprised and happy when he gave her the job immediately . |
| 15 | He gave her the name and address , and added , ‘ I 'd take him myself if I was free . ’ |
| 16 | He gave her the get-up , and she got into it . |
| 17 | He gave her the gleaming smile she detested . |
| 18 | He gave her the courtesy of a single long attentive ear . |
| 19 | ‘ A female Solomon , ’ said Neil , sighing , and then he gave her the most charming grin , and through the ruin of his face she suddenly saw what Matey must have known — the handsome soldier-boy he had once been . |
| 20 | And he gave her the kiss she was waiting for . |
| 21 | When they divorced he gave her the house in a clean break settlement and paid twenty pounds a week maintenanace . |
| 22 | She declined There was something else she needed from the van so he gave her the keys . |
| 23 | He gave me the thumbs up sign then disappeared into his trench . |
| 24 | Tom could see this so he gave me the key to his hotel room and told me to have a shower and put on some of his clothes . |
| 25 | He gave me the inside scoop on the Biggest Wave story : the thirty-five-foot mountain he 'd ridden on 5 January 1985 . |
| 26 | It was Li Chao who first suggested I should have a Chinese name and I was both grateful and honoured when in the course of time he gave me the three-character name of Tdong Lao Fu which meant , literally , ‘ Portrait of Happy Man Climbing Mountain ’ . |
| 27 | He gave me the thumbs up sign , half a wink and I marched head high to the door . |
| 28 | He signalled me from Pitt Street and I met him and he gave me the peg [ the notebook entry you both make ] . |
| 29 | ‘ But he gave me the car … . ’ |
| 30 | He gave me the key . ’ |