Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] give him " in BNC.
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| 1 | The day after doctors gave him their cautious opinion Roy gave away prizes for yet another cancer research fund-raising effort . |
| 2 | If , however , the Chancellor was hoping for a variety of opinions to give him maximum freedom of manoeuvre in next month 's Budget , he will be only too happy with the report . |
| 3 | Gardening and agricultural production , unlike trading , were safe from government intervention , and his mixture of activities gave him some security should his job or his shop come under threat . |
| 4 | On a larger scale one might observe that his lifelong preoccupation with words gave him a kind of sensitivity to them , even if it was an unorthodox one ; and further that it is strange that a myth should so make its way if enshrined and embodied in words as inappropriate as critics have made out . |
| 5 | Though teaching was so wretchedly paid , he was beginning to think that it was the only possible profession for him — passing on information to others gave him such profound pleasure . |