Example sentences of "he give [pron] the " in BNC.

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1 Never , by look or gesture or word , had he given her the slightest justification for thinking that he might be interested in her as a person .
2 Could he give her the best of food or pay for a doctor if she fell sick or buy her fine clothes or anythin' she fancies ?
3 But if the Home Secretary feels that we can have more , er , er , police officers , why does n't he give us the money so we can employ them .
4 He lived in at that time just over the road er down the road here and then something went wrong during the war that was over my father and er cos matter of fact when my father come off the dredger erm the Harbourmaster wanted to give him er he give him the push and turned round and he said my father name was .
5 He had to take a boat to Miami , and that 's why he give me the keys to Starkisser .
6 ‘ An ’ he give me the sack .
7 So he give me the keys and I could n't start it .
8 ‘ Yes , I want the Eubank return and Iran Barkley as well because he gives me the fear I thrive on , ’ said Benn .
9 When I ask him for telephone numbers of the people who know him best , he gives me the numbers of Deneuve , Shrimpton and Helvin before Jack Nicholson , Brian Clarke and Julian Schnabel .
10 Cati said , ‘ I 've told you , he gives me the shivers , I think he made a spell and did things to my head .
11 To mark his disapproval of my doing so he gives me the wrong ticket and some change , of which the amount , as far as I can see , bears no relation to any previous transaction between us .
12 " He gives me the creeps , " she angrily cried , protesting about Timothy Gedge as Mrs Blakey had .
13 He gives me the address of a boarding house he could stay at in Earls Court .
14 I wait patiently whilst he gives me the once-over .
15 He gives me the creeps , so I looked round , hmm hmm .
16 He gives me the creeps .
17 And he gives him the option , he offers to him the the right to redeem .
18 He gives them the best working conditions and levels of pay high enough to sustain their motivation .
19 We have been referred to several recent cases , of which Padfield v. Minister of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food is the best example , in which the courts have stressed that in the ordinary way a minister should give reasons , and if he gives none the court may infer that he had no good reasons .
20 But if he gives you the s exactly the same numbers even , same exercise , same number
21 He gives us the assurance one day and the very next day seems to retract or contradict it . ’
22 He gives us the archetypal wolf in Armani threads in script executive Griffin Mill — Tim Robbins — whose job entails dashing the hopes of thousands of writers each year and making a handful rich .
23 He gives us the voice , so we can examine it ourselves and ask our own questions about it , even though he does not cite directly anything the Oxford voice says .
24 He gave her the rake and she went vigorously at the hay while he plaited a grass rope to put round a burden and heft it down to the byre .
25 He gave her the bit of paper with the phone number on .
26 General Robert Schweitzer , who told this story to the congressional lawyers , was a trifle envious that after 58 years of daily Mass and ‘ desperate messages to the Almighty ’ he himself had never been woken up at night ‘ with lights on the wall ’ and a vision of saving Nicaragua ; he was not sure Ms Studeley had either , but he gave her the benefit of the doubt .
27 When by the third day her father had still not allowed Jessie out of her room , and Agnes confronted him , saying he could n't keep her incarcerated forever , and that if he did n't let her out then she was leaving , and that she meant it , he had gone along to his daughter 's room , taking with him a Bible , on which he made her swear that if he gave her the freedom of the house she would not attempt to leave it .
28 He helped her to make the house ready for the next occupant , and though she protested he gave her the money for her railway journey back to London .
29 He gave her the number .
30 Ricky was so furious with Perdita for deliberately sabotaging her scholarship that he gave her the sack .
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