Example sentences of "and [pron] give him " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was no respecter of persons or institutions or ideas just because they were vested with a brief authority , and nothing gave him more pleasure than to prick the bubble of pretension . |
| 2 | Under his guidance , Parliament House was transformed from a nineteenth-century warren into a modern court-house and nothing gave him greater pleasure than to explore , and share with others , its secrets and treasures . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | And I give him the whole book what lists names and numbers and what not . |
| 5 | And I give him three mo cos I 'd give him three months guarantee with that , I thought yes and I was standing there on the phone and I thought you dare come back ! |
| 6 | That was one twenty five and I give him . |
| 7 | Tha him , look how , look how he after mummy and I give him |
| 8 | The clerk turned to me and I gave him my passport and put down eleven packets and envelopes on the counter for posting . |
| 9 | 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 ! |
| 10 | Bruno , while coy about the details of the offer , said : ‘ Rock gave me his telephone number and I gave him mine . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He did this with very little effort , and I gave him small wooden cubes so that he could make a cube to keep . |
| 13 | He thanked me , and I gave him back the royal Elphberg ring . |
| 14 | And I gave him one of the street scenes . |
| 15 | But he never said word but that he was ill , as plainly he was , and I gave him medicine . |
| 16 | Today Edgar Linton has asked me to marry him , and I gave him an answer . |
| 17 | The Sheriff asked me the same question and I gave him the same answer as I have you . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I worked in up there about nineteen fifty or fifty one when I had a dispute with the manager and I gave him a week 's notice . |
| 21 | There was once years and years ago , he came in one night and I gave him these three pieces of paper and er what was it ? |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He gives you an ice cream and you give him a kiss " , that sort of thing . |
| 24 | Right so , someone on a bike , you 've got a mate on a pushbike and you 're starting a race and you give him a shove . |
| 25 | Now tell me : there is a sheikh who comes to you and you give him money ? ’ |
| 26 | He got out of the planes coming , we , we was coming over from de Laborgie and you give him the needle and I had to lead him off the lead him off the plane , and going down over the chimneys in Chantilly to landu Laborgie he goes , woo ooh ooh , getting ready you know . |
| 27 | His interest in archaeology led him into contact with Flinders Petrie , for whom he worked as an assistant from 1892 , and who gave him his first experience in excavation . |
| 28 | The latter , who have the most profound impact on the personality or the self of the child , are those individuals with whom the child interacts most closely and who give him or her security . |
| 29 | She give him a tenner and she give him that box with bloody channel change on ! |
| 30 | ‘ Could you tell us where you were and what you were doing on those three days , please ? ’ he said , instead , levelly and she gave him another sideways , calculating look . |