Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] give him " in BNC.
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| 1 | I never ceased to be astounded by how quickly and thoroughly he absorbed the notes I gave him . ’ |
| 2 | That form bears the closest inspection and as the six-year-old has settled into his new surroundings at the Marriott Stables I give him the edge over Newton Point , whose cause will not have been helped by the rain . |
| 3 | He was of middle height , well built , possibly in his mid-forties ( though Jane was not much good on ages ) with dark curly hair and slanting eyes which gave him a slightly Slavonic look , though there was not a trace of accent in his speech . |
| 4 | Let him thus lose his eyes which gave him sight of the maiden 's beauty for which he coveted her . |
| 5 | Alexander sought the advice of numerous doctors and voice trainers who gave him different medicines or voice exercises , but this only brought him temporary relief . |
| 6 | Some features of that world are nowadays entirely inscrutable — notably , what it was in Frederic Lowndes 's self-effacing position on The Times which gave him and his wife access to a society of international aristocracy and even royalty , and to the inner circles of the cabinet , as well as the society of novelists and playwrights . |
| 7 | Dr Macdonald was consulted on a series of cases which gave him clues to what was to become an accepted theory . |
| 8 | ‘ At the same time , the saddest call I ever had was from a boy who said he had marvellous parents who gave him everything . |
| 9 | I mean I , see the tablets you gave him ? |
| 10 | The solicitors who gave him the court order for them to release all the details on that . |
| 11 | He stated : " Haughey had retained all but one of the tapes I gave him , and at no stage indicated disapproval of the action that had been taken . " |
| 12 | In late August González had been granted extraordinary powers which gave him total control over central government , federal agency and state company finances and the administration of enterprises operating under the Public Works and Defence ministries . |
| 13 | One of the sport 's most natural drivers — no one , ever , participated in more forms of motor sport , for as long or even remotely as successfully — he favoured , as a simple man , those things which gave him simple pleasures . |
| 14 | Indeed , it was the Moors who gave him the title by which he is best known , a contraction of the Arabic sid-y , meaning ‘ my lord ’ . |
| 15 | Spruce took down the names she gave him without comment . |
| 16 | They were full and sensuous like a woman 's , though at times they gave him a hint of cruelty . |
| 17 | It was the excellence of his teachers which gave him his interest in Physics , English and German . |
| 18 | Fabbio did his homework among the downsizing-bent corporates which gave him the idea for Dazel : exploit the need for managing information in the network environment and give them instantaneous links to fax , printers , voice and E-mail . |
| 19 | Daniel Stoneman has defied the doctors who gave him a one-in-10 chance of survival from a rare brain tumour . |
| 20 | LITTLE battler Matthew Costen is going home in triumph — after defying doctors who gave him a fortnight to live . |
| 21 | Nicholas was sympathetic : ‘ He is only as good as the players we give him . ’ |
| 22 | The law classifies breaches of contract into two categories , first , breaches of a less serious nature which entitle the innocent party only to damages and secondly , more serious breaches which give him also the option to regard the contract as repudiated . |
| 23 | It was the experimental air fields which gave him a taste for exploring ideas which he later satisfied by joining a university ; it was the German language which brought him his wife Mary ( they met through a German class in Bristol ) . |
| 24 | She came with him to Joe 's birthday party and danced mainly with Peter , though in the slow numbers she gave him no encouragement to smooch with her ; and when she danced with other people he thought that , quite literally , he was going to die of pain . |
| 25 | He made great promises for future dates but failed to ring the numbers they gave him . |
| 26 | On the tests he gave him he was better on puzzles and patterns , poor on those involving speaking and understanding . |
| 27 | He rose from the ridiculous chair and made his way carefully down the crowded row , responding politely to those who greeted him by name , noting with carefully repressed surprise that two of the women who gave him private little smiles were seated next to each other , friends who had no idea they had something more than friendship in common . |
| 28 | He accepted the service as naturally , closing long , hard fingers on hers to read the hints they gave him . |