Example sentences of "but he [verb] give [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he had given it all up and returned to the business world as a marketing executive . |
| 2 | Erm but he 'd given me this number , Glen about Portakabins . |
| 3 | He 'd applied to join the police in his final year at university ; it had been an unfashionable thing to do but he 'd given it a lot of careful thought . |
| 4 | James 's face had reddened with confusion but he managed to give him a nod which said ‘ Go on . ’ |
| 5 | But he does give them shelter if danger threatens . |
| 6 | Eliot may not have in his poem Kipling 's Greek slave on a galley out of Egypt , but he does give us a slightly earlier seafarer who sailed out of the Middle East and whose story might be thought to be specially appropriate to those clerks who work in the city — |
| 7 | He does not give us simple explanations but he does give us useful ones . |
| 8 | But he did give me somebody to ring about caravans |
| 9 | But he 's given it to you in two different types of notation , and you need to know both . |
| 10 | That was a good tackle but he 's given it straight to Pearce . |
| 11 | He took care never to stay with her for more than twenty minutes , obeying both the spirit and the letter of Anthony 's orders , but he tried to give her a clear account of the eight days Kesselring had spent in the witness box , watching her face all the time for signs of boredom or exhaustion . |