Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] give him [art] " in BNC.

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1 In I gave the book to him or I gave him the book , him would normally be considered thematic in FSP theory .
2 So you just bring them home at lunchtime or something give him a
3 Every so often , he goes to a local hospital where they give him an injection of something , which cheers him up noticeably .
4 But he complains that I give him the impression that I am holding back and am not fully committed .
5 So I gave him a clip across the back and told him ‘ No ! ’
6 ‘ Well he needed a refill so I gave him a hand to push his hand cart into Berkeley last night .
7 Brian needed to shit so I gave him a plastic bag and then left it in the bathroom .
8 He kept stealing Nigel 's food , so I gave him a bowl of his own every day . ’
9 But Mary was out so I gave him the letter and began to tell him about the trouble at home .
10 After half an hour I was still waiting , so I gave him an experimental pull and the hook came back minus the barbel .
11 and er so one night she gave him , come in a bit paralytic , wanted a drink , so she give him a drink with a load of tranquillisers in
12 She could have tried for goal , but Mike had an easier shot so she gave him a lightning , nearside , under-the-neck pass .
13 She wanted to wound him as he was wounding her so she gave him a charming smile and said , ‘ How did you feel , Fernando , when Maria Luisa slid into your bed at that hour ? ’
14 So you gave him the key .
15 We did n't want our poor prisoner to get wet , so we gave him a nice yellow raincoat , you see .
16 He astounded his American masters by demanding that they give him a more worthwhile job or he would be on his way home .
17 ( He should have won a Nobel Prize for general relativity , but the idea that space and time were curved was still regarded as too speculative and controversial , so they gave him a prize for the photoelectric effect instead — ; not that it was not worth the prize on its own account . )
18 Some of the things he said made no sense so they gave him a crack across the head and took him away .
19 Of course they did n't get the portable with this , they rang them up , said where 's my colour portable said I 'll put you on to the manager anyway they had some deal that night that erm to launch this Mini Mayfair or whatever it was wine and cheese thing so he went to the wine and cheese thing and worried he was gon na kick up a fuss so they gave him a telly anyway .
20 Back on the recovery ship , they opened the hatch and there was Ham with his arms crossed , looking gloriously bored by the whole episode , so they gave him an apple !
21 he 's after something , h his apprenticeship so they give him a thousand pound
22 This dietician saying that the architect w wants to know all about endoscop what it involves , so that it gives him an idea as to what is about .
23 Another experience was when he was praying before the crucifix in San Damiano and it seemed to him that it gave him the message , " Build my church " , which he immediately interpreted quite literally as , " Save this church from crumbling into ruins " .
24 His main diversion was music , which ‘ did relieve his drooping spirits , compose his distracted thoughts and raised his weary soul so far above the earth , that it gave him an earnest of the joys of heaven ’ .
25 I was walking along with my girl and I see my old man and I was scared , you know , smoking , but at the same time I did n't want to throw it away because my girl was there , you know , and she 'd see it , and I just kept on walking and my old man stopped and said to me , ‘ Give me a light ’ , and I give him a light , and he said , ‘ I 'm away to the shops ’ , and I was , you know , thinking , I can get away with this .
26 And I give him the whole book what lists names and numbers and what not .
27 He said ‘ Okay , I want you to show me everything , ’ and I said ‘ Well , there are six strings , they 're tuned like this and written down an octave , ’ ( For those that do n't know , when guitar music is transposed onto a stave , it 's dropped a whole octave to keep it on the treble clef — Ed ) and he was taking notes and I gave him a beginning guitar book so that he could see how it was all written out !
28 So I said OK , and I gave him a real fancy one — it was like topiary , and I left him with a rude word on the back of his head .
29 After that I got us on to less dangerous ground , and I gave him a few tit-bits of intelligence , which was probably what he 'd been after .
30 I therefore completed to his satisfaction all the forms he gave me , and I gave him a detailed written description of our proposal , and a revised working drawing showing greater detail , with both of which he seemed satisfied .
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