Example sentences of "the [noun pl] give him " in BNC.
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| 1 | I agree with it and , for the reasons given him , I , too , would allow the appeal . |
| 2 | But the eyes give him away : sometimes they are all-seeing , giving the impression that he is quietly dissecting one 's soul . |
| 3 | Tolonen was getting to his feet , one of the guards giving him a hand . |
| 4 | Under section 245A , where copies of the annual accounts have been sent out , laid , or delivered to the Registrar and it appears to the Secretary of State that there is or may be a question whether they comply with the Act he may give notice to the directors indicating the respects in which it appears to him that the question may arise and specifying a period of not less than one month for the directors to give him explanations or prepare revised accounts . |
| 5 | ( Act 1 scene 3 ) And , only three lines after this , the theme of belief in the power of evil is shown by Macbeth when he says that the witches gave him the Thanehood when it was actually the king . |
| 6 | ‘ Poor Mangan , ’ Father Poole would sigh , ‘ the street-arabs gave him an awful time — and I was one of them , God forgive me . ’ |
| 7 | He wanted more time and the rebels gave him it . |
| 8 | Re-stowing the rest of the sails gave him time to get the details straight in his head . |
| 9 | Almost , she went back up the stairs to give him what she had … |
| 10 | He spent his nights with Taheb , but these days he had begun to notice the glances the servants gave him , and made excuses when she wanted him to join her dinner guests . |
| 11 | As soon as he had gained control , Sandys brought about another change in the Virginia Company 's way of running things ; he told the Company 's governor in the colony to have an assembly elected from among the colonists to give him advice and to act as the legislative body to pass any local laws needed inside the colony . |
| 12 | It was doubtful whether his preaching saved many souls , but enough of the navvies gave him a polite hearing to satisfy his missionary urges . |
| 13 | His first big senior championship victory over 1500 metres at Crystal Palace yesterday convinced the selectors to give him this job in Rome . |
| 14 | The girls gave him a challenge that they would achieve £81k worth of sales by the end of the third quarter , and they did ! |
| 15 | For the next seventy-five minutes he will be the most important man on the floor-maintaining discipline and relaying all the instructions given him by the team assembled up in the gallery . |
| 16 | The doctors gave him two years to live . |
| 17 | Once the superbike race was over McCallen presented himself again for examination and the doctors gave him the all clear for the Regal 600cc race . |
| 18 | Some of the men gave him curious looks because of the blood that had sheeted his right side . |
| 19 | The men gave him a small piece of paper . |
| 20 | Lully had already essayed recitative in French in a ballet , Les aisons ( 1661 ) : and the comédies-ballets gave him plenty of opportunities to experiment further . |
| 21 | The education chairman , Tom Farrell , said the cuts gave him great pain , but services would be affected worse if the Scottish Office stepped in to reduce spending . |
| 22 | And since Pooh knows what bees look like , we may assume that this observation is a good one : the belief the bees give him ( namely , that they are bees ) will be true . |
| 23 | Suspended from duty , the police gave him an internal trial . |
| 24 | In his absence , the Socialists gave him an ultimatum : he should hand over to the Communists . |
| 25 | Kendall has dismissed him , but Everton might be better off re-educating the others to give him the service he thrives on . |
| 26 | I think that was his name what the nurses give him . ’ |
| 27 | The letters gave him the chance of ‘ discarding or of adapting to my own purpose the fine words and infinite variety of constructions which I had formerly admired from afar and imitated in fairly cold blood . ’ |
| 28 | The bookies gave him the tightest odds of any of the outgoing MPs , but he was still two-to-one on to win . |
| 29 | Although the polls give him the lowest performance rating of any post-war leader , Mr Major doubted there would be a challenge this year . |
| 30 | The polls gave him a lead of between five and eight points but when ‘ undecided ’ voters who traditionally opt for the challenger are considered , Clinton is pushed to a commanding 12-point lead . |