Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] give him " in BNC.
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| 1 | The soft lines of the sweatshirt that moulded the broad shoulders gave him an air of easy , masculine power , and the blue almost exactly matched the blue of his eyes . |
| 2 | His features were strong and rather austere , and his high cheekbones gave him a distinction that was all his own , though the line of his well-cut mouth hinted at a sensuality that disturbed her without her knowing why . |
| 3 | These early months gave him a brutally clear idea of what lay ahead . |
| 4 | The explicit lines gave him a twisted perception of British women , a court heard yesterday . |
| 5 | And those eyes that seemed to dance and scowl at the same time from beneath their fringe of long dark lashes gave him a restless , unpredictable air . |
| 6 | Gradgrind 's becoming an MP in Hard Times gives him further opportunity for satire : Parliament figures as ‘ the national cinder-heap ’ ( HT ii 11 ) where the MPs , ‘ the national dustmen ’ , get up ‘ a great many noisy little fights amongst themselves ’ ( HT ii 12 ) , and the image recurs in Our Mutual Friend when CD apostrophizes the nation 's legislators : ‘ My lords and gentlemen and honourable boards , when you in the course of your dust-shovelling and cinder-raking have piled up a mountain of pretentious failure , you must off with your honourable coats for the removal of it , and fall to work … or it will come rushing down and bury us alive ’ ( OMF iii 8 ) . |
| 7 | Even the lady who stood on the corner handing out white feathers gave him an approving nod . |
| 8 | He smiled benignly at Matthew , his quiff of white hair and heavy black-framed glasses giving him the air of a learned cockatoo . |
| 9 | He wore no tie , but the effect of his neat sleeked-back hair and thick-framed spectacles gave him the look of a rather stern and learned professor . |
| 10 | SAVE : 3+ ( A Savage Orc 's protective tattoos give him a save equivalent to light armour . ) |
| 11 | ‘ It is not the least of the tributes to President Clinton that he won the election despite Europe 's most frequent losers giving him advice . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ It is not the least of the tributes to President Clinton that he won the election despite Europe 's most frequent losers giving him advice ’ |
| 13 | The British Ambassador , Anthony Parsons , a man whose heavy spectacles gave him an amiable academic appearance , was an Arabist who had been in Iran since 1974 . |
| 14 | Inside the kitchen it was warm , and smiling Scandinavians gave him hot blankets and drinks to revive him . |
| 15 | While Charles remained , apparently inactive , at Edinburgh , the British government was making vigorous preparations to give him a warm reception when , as expected , he advanced into England . |
| 16 | Craig ran his hand through his hair so that it sprung into small curls giving him a rakish appearance . |
| 17 | His Jamaican parents gave him absolutely no encouragement in sport and little more in education yet his school teachers exerted often crude pressures on him to participate in the school athletics and football teams . |
| 18 | Abu Khadra 's heavily boned face and strong rectangular glasses gave him a slightly fearsome appearance . |
| 19 | He was the only Ryan to wear glasses , which he was forever pushing higher on his nose , the thick lenses giving him an owlish appearance . |
| 20 | He was well noticed , he had the beginnings of a fan-club , and back home the Welsh papers gave him full-page spreads . |
| 21 | The American ones gave him degrees , |
| 22 | If he caught them before they reached the Isthmus of Corinth he killed the suitor ; and he always did , because he had divine horses given him by his father Ares . |
| 23 | His Etonian vowels give him a peculiar aural resemblance to Brian Johnston of Test Match Special ( imagine Johnners talking about what an axe can do to the flesh and you will have some idea of just how disorienting this is ) . |
| 24 | Peter Hardcastle of Ridgehill , Dartmouth , was taken to hospital after passing motorists gave him first aid . |
| 25 | The Gotobeds were n't hard people , the young ladies gave him sweets and toys and made a real pet of him , but they could n't comfort him , and in the end they said he could go back home one day . |
| 26 | Final results gave him 50.3 per cent of the vote to the communist-backed Mr Vassiliou 's 49.7 per cent — a majority of about 2,000 votes . |
| 27 | One typical story recalled the fate of the apocryphal Lupescu , who was the alleged inventor of several scurrilous stories with the Comrade as their butt and who was supposed to supplement his income with hard currency or Western cigarettes given him by his appreciative audience . |
| 28 | His strong dialect and ungrammatical turns of phrase often made him unintentionally amusing , but his dark and ruddy complexion , coarse features , and shabby clothes gave him a hold over the type of working man the total abstainers sought to reach . |
| 29 | Harrison kept intent on the gentleman but still he noted the two boats on the lake — one had caught what must be a pike from the struggle — heard the chiming axes of the woodmen , noted the flocks on the Scale Force bank of Crummock and , more particularly , a pair of swallows playing beside the water — these and a score of other impressions gave him a richness of context denied Hope who , after struggling with his pipe , battled on , oblivious of all that was about him , to confirm and exercise his new and gloriously liberated Christianity . |
| 30 | A ‘ stringer ’ is n't just a freelance — it 's a correspondent based away from head office whose local contacts give him an on-the-spot usefulness which far surpasses that of a reporter sent out from head office . ’ |