Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [conj] [pron] give him " in BNC.

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1 That gave Webb an easy catch and it gave him the time to see that Bath would have a man over if he ran the ball to the left .
2 It was a strange place and it gave him strange ideas ; he was oddly aware of those who had played , and loved and quarrelled there .
3 Des O'Grady must have made some audacious remark to her in his broad Irish accent for she gave him a wide grin , showing her impeccable set of incisors .
4 That gained her immediate attention and she gave him a shocked look .
5 Gwynn Jones received many other honours but none gave him greater pleasure than the publication of a selection of his poems , Detholiad o Ganiadau , by the Gregynog Press in 1926 , and the de luxe edition , issued in 1932–7 by Hughes & Son , Wrexham , of six volumes of selected poems and essays .
6 Under his guidance , Parliament House was transformed from a nineteenth-century warren into a modern court-house and nothing gave him greater pleasure than to explore , and share with others , its secrets and treasures .
7 Every so often , he goes to a local hospital where they give him an injection of something , which cheers him up noticeably .
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