Example sentences of "given he " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was quite frank about the whole thing , told us H. had given him a fiver to turn up , asked Madge if she wanted to go through with it , which of course she did n't . |
| 2 | She remembered the evening because his parents had given him an awful sweater for his birthday and between comedy programmes on the television she and Alan thought up alternative uses for an awful sweater . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'd only ever given him pills before , and I 'm not medically trained , but it 's surprising how quickly you get used to it . |
| 4 | It will appear mechanical , when plucked out of the huge and vital narrative flow , that Dostoevsky has given him ‘ a sickly dark yellow complexion ’ as a mark of his belonging to Petersburg . |
| 5 | David Lodge , whose experience as novelist , critic , and professor of English has given him many insights into the situation I am describing , provides in his recent novel Nice Work , a neat instance of the gap between students and teacher . |
| 6 | As for Mozart himself , who had married the sister of the woman he loved , the subject of Cosi must surely have given him food for thought . |
| 7 | He has , however , given him a psychotic compulsion to formulate fanciful similes . |
| 8 | The old man was delighted with the packet of cigarettes Sid had given him in exchange for the cider . |
| 9 | Temple had neither converted him , nor given him his vocation . |
| 10 | Certainly Eliot 's studies in Sanskrit and Pali at Harvard under Lanman and Woods had given him a thorough knowledge of Indian thought , but it is probable that Kipling 's version of metempsychosis had at least an equally important effect . |
| 11 | Eliot , who invited his friends to this performance , who attended some of the rehearsals , and who expressed his full confidence in the director Rupert Doone , continued to follow in his text the original impetus which Cornford had given him . |
| 12 | But by keeping him secret she had given him too much power . |
| 13 | As Marx rightly comments in his notebook , Maine seems unable to imagine property in terms other than the legal terms which his training had given him . |
| 14 | We would have fished Tony out two or three kilometres down after the water had knocked him around a bit , and given him a dreadful bootful since he was wearing his Lundhags . |
| 15 | Odd-Knut has given him a hunting knife , and pointed him at the trees . |
| 16 | Odd-Knut has given him some eggs that turn out to be frozen . |
| 17 | ‘ We , the second generation of Pininfarina , had given him great joy and pride . |
| 18 | His short visit has given him much information about the courses but , more importantly , he now has an intimate feeling of how these young men and women , drawn from all walks of life , are trained . |
| 19 | She too has given him confidence and relieved some of the loneliness of his position . |
| 20 | He had lost another close companion , another friend , one who had helped and guided him and given him such pleasure . |
| 21 | ‘ Are you out of your … ? his father stopped and looked in a startled manner at his mother , who had given him a sharp dig , then began to cough . |
| 22 | But Jack did n't know that and , even if he had known , it would only have given him a false feeling of security , because the threat from streptomycin , when it came , was not of a hind that he could have imagined or foreseen . |
| 23 | She excused herself hurriedly and left , returning with a great bustle to announce her coming , when she had given him time to compose himself . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's given him a slightly orangey colour . |
| 25 | I guess that over the last six years television has given him only a quarter of her exposure . |
| 26 | Before they left , Gallardo shook Valenzuela 's hand and thanked him for the cigarettes he had given him in captivity . |
| 27 | He was sure I was going to be sent to Siberia but I 'd given him all my film and all the pictures that I 'd taken already . |
| 28 | But she knew her hesitation had given him a lead . |
| 29 | He had the drive and determination that Macmillan sought , and his time in the Ministry of Supply had given him experience in , and a fascination for , advanced technology in weapon development . |
| 30 | During the two shorts months that it took to draft the White Paper , opposition could be quelled , using the new powers and wholehearted support given him by the Prime Minister . |