Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] and gave he " in BNC.

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1 She came back through the kitchen and gave him the torch .
2 I contacted the landowner immediately after the inquest to inform him of the result and gave him three coins , one for each of his sons .
3 She pressed her nose to the window and gave him a wave .
4 The grandparents completely dominated the boy and gave him high levels of attention for his difficult behaviour .
5 He thanked the singer and gave him another sop , which he could ill afford .
6 I picked up the phone and gave him an ear-bashing . ’
7 I stole the father and gave Him back the son ! ’
8 I handed back the magazine and gave him a bundle of mail .
9 I took my prisoner to my secret cave on the other side of the island and gave him food and drink .
10 Hilbert leant towards Lewis when he told him about the will and gave him a pat on the knee .
11 Success in the Caucasian war and the friendship between Bariatinskii and the tsar restored him to favour at the centre and gave him the chance of putting his ideas into practice .
12 The medics met the plane and gave him plasma etc right there in the radio room before transporting him to the hospital .
13 She replaced the receiver and gave him an apologetic smile .
14 Tony Coton apparently embraced him at the end and gave him soime words of encouragement .
15 At four o'clock , nearly an hour before sunrise , the first blackbird began to sing and Thorfinn moved from light sleep to full awareness a moment before Klakkr son of Bathrik , his body-servant for many years , touched him on the shoulder and gave him the sentry 's report : no movement from the enemy in the wood .
16 She picked up one of the wire baskets that were stacked outside the supermarket and gave him a selfconscious , defiant stare .
17 If , if I walked up to a policeman in the street and gave him a little shove , the chances are he would arrest me , unless it was done in a totally friendly way .
18 The studio thinks Vic 's a genius and gave him as much as they could until the insurance boys dug their heels in over big-name leads falling out of a canoe and then they went down the list and found a couple of guys the industry could afford to lose .
19 The officer did not invite the defendant to express a preference for giving blood or urine but warned him of the consequences of failure to provide a specimen and gave him the opportunity to put forward any reasons why a specimen of blood could not be taken by a doctor .
20 Gray began singing for Baldwin after her cousin — an avid Chicago house devotee who would occasionally drag Paris out to the city 's hottest clubs — heard Baldwin was looking for a singer and gave him Gray 's number .
21 At first his wife never left him , since the doctors had told her that it was vital that he should find her there when he came out of his coma , and then when the immediate danger had passed she visited him three times a day and gave him his meals .
22 The nurses also encouraged him to drink 1 litres of fluid a day and gave him steam inhalations every 4 hours .
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