Example sentences of "[noun sg] that give him " in BNC.

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1 Another episode that gave him much reassurance was the time when Kate invited him in for tea at the Rectory .
2 BILLY JOEL is battling to save the tiny New York club that gave him his first pop break .
3 But it was working as a computer specialist in the insurance industry that gave him the necessary experience , most notably the motor insurance experience , he needed .
4 In a world of single parents , almost all of them female , it is the relationship that the young man has with a solid male figure that gives him an edge and keeps him on the straight and narrow .
5 Some of the smokers were aware of his campaign against passive smoking — the kind that gave him cancer in smoke-tarred clubs .
6 Denis Smith says hopefully to get three points and play good football … there 's not much they can do in two days but his team talk will be tell the players to go out enjoy it and pass the ball … by a strange twist of fate Smith 's first match at the Manor is against the team that gave him the sack last season Bristol City
7 But World War I gave him the chance to stand on internationalist ground with an uncompromising fervour and personal courage that gave him a status denied to most of the others , whose work lay in the factories and in the shop stewards ' movement .
8 Belonging here defined him , made him free to wander , because here he had roots to return to , an anchor that gave him stability and a sense of permanence .
9 I know somebody here who got very good marks for his lab work and he 's good on computers , and he just programmed the computers in random errors and stuff that give him set results and nice graphs , and they were n't perfect so nobody noticed them , but he fiddled them , and that way he did n't have to do any lab work if he did n't want to .
10 It was , I think , this last quality that gave him his reputation for indecision .
11 Five years ago a medical general practitioner might have spent $8,000 a year on an insurance policy that gave him cover for a claim up to $1m .
12 WITH ONLY 48 hours to come up with the cash , Michael Knighton 's £20m take-over bid for Manchester United is back on course following a High Court ruling that gives him leave to put together a funding package .
13 It is important to remember that it was Alexander 's all-consuming passion for the theatre that gave him the determination to find out the cause of his hoarseness .
14 During this time Coe was on the dole and living in Bermondsey , and it is this period of his life that gave him the basis for The Dwarves of Death .
15 Ironically , it was the Government which he partly blamed for the affair that gave him the chance to return to work after retirement .
16 Though the business was thriving , there was one aspect that gave him great concern and over which he was powerless to exercise any sort of control .
17 It had a pale beauty in the moonlight that gave him more unexpected enchantment .
18 These problems require very different sorts of action ; together their requirements conflict in a way that gives him little room for manoeuvre .
19 These problems require very different sorts of action ; together their requirements conflict in a way that gives him little room for manoeuvre .
20 The camera swung again , but this time George looked above it , to a monitor screen hung on a metal rafter above the audience , to see his own face in close-up , the eyes staring upward in a way that gave him an absurdly soulful look .
21 Likewise , by efficient data storage the user benefits from having a system that gives him relevant information quickly .
22 His talents were demonstrated through a system that gave him opportunities and brought out the best in him .
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