Example sentences of "but [pron] give him " in BNC.
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| 1 | A tinker accosted me in the bar , asking for a glass of brandy , but I gave him short shrift . |
| 2 | I think I said it was a 6-iron or maybe a 7 , but I gave him the yardage and he hit his shot right at the hole . |
| 3 | I apoligise for putting a long list of questions to the Minister , but I gave him advance notice and I hope that he will answer most of them . |
| 4 | He made a half-hearted move towards me , but I gave him no encouragement . |
| 5 | What he relied on , I think , and what he always came back to was that ‘ natural ’ self which he did not understand nor at this stage want to understand , but which gave him his power . |
| 6 | ‘ But you give him presents . ’ |
| 7 | Gwynn Jones received many other honours but none gave him greater pleasure than the publication of a selection of his poems , Detholiad o Ganiadau , by the Gregynog Press in 1926 , and the de luxe edition , issued in 1932–7 by Hughes & Son , Wrexham , of six volumes of selected poems and essays . |
| 8 | He tried to start things up in a halfhearted sort of way , but she gave him an ultimatum . |
| 9 | Flaubert was distressed and begged for mercy , but she gave him no quarter . ’ |
| 10 | She had been disappointed in her first sight of him , but she gave him an amused little smile , hoping that he was not one who doted on cats . |
| 11 | Before they parted it seemed to Sophia that he was trying to draw Ianthe aside , as if to make an assignation with her , but she gave him so little encouragement , indeed seemed almost to avoid him , that he had to be content with looking forward to the doubtful pleasure of meeting the whole party the next evening after dinner at the Trevi fountain . |
| 12 | But they gave him their support , none the less , and the first issue , containing political reports , original essays , poetry , and reviews , was announced for the beginning of March , the aim of the publication being , as Coleridge modestly explained , ‘ to proclaim the State of the Political Atmosphere , and preserve Freedom and her Friends from the attacks of Robbers and Assassins ! ! ’ |
| 13 | The plans were sent to the Governors of the Greenwich Hospital , but they gave him no encouragement . |
| 14 | The airport hotel was an expensive way to live , but they gave him a trade reduction , which seemed the logically absurd extension of a farcical situation . |
| 15 | A few people were waiting and one of them called out angrily as Joe stepped in ahead of them all , but he gave him a one-second blast of his sub-zero gaze and said , ‘ Police business , ’ and then he turned his back and forgot the man completely . |
| 16 | But it gave him an excuse to retire for a while , to re-assess things . |
| 17 | He had to go the long way around , but it gave him plenty of time to watch for any indication that there might be anybody at home . |
| 18 | He drank heavily , but it gave him no elation , merely intensified his mood . |
| 19 | But it gave him no comfort . |
| 20 | It hardly made him a frequent visitor , but it gave him a few numbers to ring . |
| 21 | It was soul-destroying to him but it gave him money for his wife and child . |
| 22 | The dialogue tonight might be controlled and rational — but it gave him no ease . |