Example sentences of "he gave " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ E asked me if I 'd go an' look for it , and 'e gave me a quid . |
| 2 | Talking to him gave Jane the idea ( obvious , as most good ideas seem , once they 're thought of ) of producing a guide to the firm 's products , loose-leaf for updating , to be distributed to doctors and clinics . |
| 3 | Deceiving him gave her a fierce pleasure and , as they strolled along by the waterline , with Ben splashing beside them through the shallows , she kept her hatred burning red-hot with a litany of her grievances , chanted over and over inside her head : ‘ He only pretended to like you ; he could n't care less about you ; he thinks you 're thick . |
| 4 | The continued silence about him gave rise to new rumours about his health and mental condition , and that he had been relieved of his duties by Himmler and Goebbels . |
| 5 | a Scottish sailor marooned on the island of Juan Fernandez from 1704 until he was picked up by Captain Woodes Rogers 52 months later ; Woodes 's account of him gave Defoe the idea of Robinson Crusoe , and Cowper wrote a poem entitled ‘ Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk ’ , beginning ‘ I am monarch of all I survey ’ . |
| 6 | The ice beneath him gave ; he braced himself , and slid slowly into the muddy lake up to his neck . |
| 7 | Something at the core of him gave in to her . |
| 8 | The two men who had stood behind him gave their names quickly , eagerly , anxious to avoid association . |
| 9 | The fact that she 'd remembered him gave him pleasure , even though she had evidently misheard what had been said . |
| 10 | Seeing her all meek and soft and ready for him gave Harry ideas , but he was a good Cornish boy still , and was n't too sure how to go about it . |
| 11 | Her letters to him gave news of all the preparations for the wedding , but were tender and loving too . |
| 12 | Later one of the Shahs ambassadors who eventually denounced him gave a different description . |
| 13 | The thought of the Marlborough boys ‘ discovering ’ him gave him obvious pleasure ; and whether or not he believed that the curriculum should include modern literature ( as Auden was later to say that it should not ) , he certainly believed , with his own youthful experience in mind , that the young should be enabled to explore new fields in the arts for themselves . |
| 14 | Things which had bewildered him were clear as crystal , problems which had daunted and defied him gave like locks opening to the right key . |
| 15 | He was on his bike six kids jumped him and said give us your bike they , they took his bike off him gave him a hammering right on the nose , broke his nose . |
| 16 | Fénéon , like other excellent critics , was a valued friend of artists , and so he remained all his life even though he gave up writing criticism after a decade of working on the Revue blanche from 1893 to 1903 . |
| 17 | It was the fifth of those lectures he gave from 1769 to 1790 , known as his fifteen discourses . |
| 18 | ‘ With his left hand he snatched the gun from the Pole 's hands , and with his right he gave him a violent blow to the ear . ’ |
| 19 | He gave Jilly Jonathan a brief bow from his enormous gangling height . |
| 20 | ’ He gave a sob , ‘ and she went rattling down the stairs to her room the way she always did and then I heard that awful sort of slither and Bunty 's scream … ’ |
| 21 | Brooklyn born , he gave up academia in the 70 's to work in theatre and write plays . |
| 22 | I 'd go for it if I were you , ’ he said , and he gave me a little peck on the cheek . |
| 23 | The scattered crowd drew closer together and listened quietly , but when he gave his warning about the Riot Act , glances were exchanged , a few grinned openly , and a wit called out , ‘ They must know the law here — that is why they have all stayed at home . ’ |
| 24 | He gave her the rake and she went vigorously at the hay while he plaited a grass rope to put round a burden and heft it down to the byre . |
| 25 | Leonard was but 21 when it was first published , though the poems were culled from his output from 15 to 20 years of age , according to an interview he gave to Andrew Tyler of Disc in 1972 . |
| 26 | Would I one day show people this jacket and say that it had been a lovely afternoon in Central Park when he gave it to me and , in closing , would I say that as he disappeared into the trees , I never saw Oscar Wilde again ? |
| 27 | Whatever was said , Becker clearly seems to have changed his mind about the credibility and validity of the Grand Slam Cup , judging by a recent interview he gave to Suddeutsche Zeitung , one of Germany 's most influential newspapers . |
| 28 | The caution he gave regarding their use implied that , despite being water based , there could be hazard in their application . |
| 29 | Tchaikovsky was the first to break that mould when he gave the Sapphire Fairy ( now one of Florestan 's sisters ) a solo to a 5/4 time signature . |
| 30 | I stroked him , he gave me a big lick , and I could see relief sweep over him knowing I was n't going to hit him . ’ |