Example sentences of "gives he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among Max 's other hobbies are going for long walks , travelling in the car and sitting on the fax machine , which always gives him a surprise when it starts working . |
| 2 | In ‘ At Tikhon 's ’ he goes to the holy man with a document which he gives him to read , and which he does read , and which Stavrogin next proposes to publish . |
| 3 | Now , the Talleyrand-Perigords have , as their name implies , been mighty lords in Perigord since the early Middle Ages , and in the early poem ‘ Near Perigord ’ Talleyrand is one of the powerful and menacing neighbours whom Bertrand de Born has to play off one against another , thus earning ( so Pound 's poem suggests ) the title which Dante gives him in the Inferno , ‘ sower of strife ’ . |
| 4 | Jonathan Speelman will be grateful for yesterday 's rest day , which gives him a chance to recover his equanimity after a depressing loss in the second game . |
| 5 | He is chairman of the IAEA 's Nuclear Safety Advisory Group , which gives him a pivotal role in co-ordinating the safety policies of all countries that have nuclear installations . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I hope she gives him a right going over . ’ |
| 8 | And it is just that : a point of view , a vision , put forward through a fine prose style , that gives the work of Frazer a position above that of other scholars of equal erudition and perhaps greater ingenuity , and which gives him an inevitable and growing influence over the contemporary mind . |
| 9 | Eliot 's vision , which gives him his sympathies with ‘ neo-agrarians ’ , however ‘ quixotic , , is a vision to counter the modern paganism of economic determinists whose theory has become ‘ a god before whom we fall down and worship with all kinds of music ’ . |
| 10 | Haslam 's exposure to the worldwide business scene nevertheless gives him an extra dimension with which to tackle the British Coal job . |
| 11 | Carlos Sainz 's victory for Toyota on the Rally of Portugal last week gives him a 13-point lead in the world championship . |
| 12 | DEAN REYNOLDS , whitewashed by Steve Davis in the Rothmans Grand Prix final , made a break of 112 to clinch his 9-7 win over Tony Meo last night which gives him a return meeting with Davis in today 's quarter-final of the Everest World Matchplay Championship at the Brentwood Centre . |
| 13 | Southampton 2 , Manchester City 1 City ripe for Kendall salvation if Swales gives him the time . |
| 14 | The Christmas present gives him one more chance to convert the family to the alleged delights of fly fishing or English cathedrals or war games — or whatever his confounded passion is ( Oxfam shops , however , are very grateful to him ) . |
| 15 | He hit one of the great five irons , too , at the last hole , a shot that still gives him one of those lovely shivers of success whenever he thinks about it . |
| 16 | That gives him the space to make long-term bets , but also deprives him of advice against short-sightedness : borrowing sums that he can service only so long as the good times roll . |
| 17 | That gives him clout not only in tricky talks with America , Britain , France and the Soviet Union over how the new Germany will fit into Europe , but also in negotiations within the European Community over what sort of Europe it will be . |
| 18 | That gives him a pension nearly ten times greater than the one I 've got . |
| 19 | The 24th grand prix win of his career gives him a commanding lead in the world championship . |
| 20 | For him it means a coalition government , with his party as the junior partner , which immediately introduces legislation for proportional representation , and gives him a job in the Cabinet . |
| 21 | The sale also gives him a £49m profit to pay for acquisitions . |
| 22 | Brian Tustian , who has farmed organically for five years is looking forward to the opportunity of dealing with his customers personally : it gives him a chance to put the case for organic produce himself , and he can cope better with the variable quantity of his supplies at a market . |
| 23 | It is sometimes a way of endowing a person with a responsibility that trains him to fulfil various roles in the future , or that it is hoped will change his character for the better , or that endows its holder with prestige , or that gives him a certain hold on other people and makes them more likely to act in his interests . |
| 24 | ‘ My heart is completely enchanted with all these pleasures , because it is so jolly on this journey , because it is so warm in the carriage and because our coachman is a fine fellow who , when the road gives him the slightest chance , drives so fast . |
| 25 | Or perhaps no one can understand anyone : each blackbird believes that he has put into his whistle a meaning fundamental for him , but only he understands it ; the other gives him a reply that had no connection with what he said ; it is a dialogue between the deaf , a conversation without head or tail . |
| 26 | As we contemplate God in the beauty of his holiness , he shapes our hearts and our desires to what gives him delight . |
| 27 | This at least gives him the freedom to go out for air and to do errands such as visiting local shops or going to the hairdresser . |
| 28 | It also gives him practice in planning outings and taking some responsibility for his own actions . |
| 29 | His food goes in a corner manger and a brick goes in with it ; the weight of the brick means he ca n't throw the manger about and we can only assume that its bulk gives him something to think about . |
| 30 | Buckland 's early paper on this subject pointed out that the Librarian 's capacity to determine official loan periods gives him ‘ a powerful and precise device for influencing the availability of books in his library ’ . |