Example sentences of "give him " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when Jem was born , there was no reason I could give him why not . |
| 2 | I 'd give him a choice : he could either stay on his own or leave . |
| 3 | I would n't give him up for the world . ’ |
| 4 | This echoes the statement in their second encounter that he , Porfiry , has no intention of making an immediate arrest because by doing so he would give the murderer somebody to be : ‘ I 'd give him , so to say , a definite position , I 'd give him psychological definition and peace . ’ |
| 5 | This echoes the statement in their second encounter that he , Porfiry , has no intention of making an immediate arrest because by doing so he would give the murderer somebody to be : ‘ I 'd give him , so to say , a definite position , I 'd give him psychological definition and peace . ’ |
| 6 | He picks himself up and declares about Fedka , later in the novel , ‘ I suffered for ten years on his account , more than he suffered as a soldier , and — and I 'll give him my purse . ’ |
| 7 | When they lock the man up with Jim and John and Henry and Mary and Dolores and Grace — I hope they will give him access to books , with paper enough for him to go on making translations for us from the classics such as we have never seen except at his hands in our language . |
| 8 | A sad tale about a man who died at the age of 103 because no one would give him any money . |
| 9 | ‘ The place that did give him a job was the Irish Catholic paper The Standard , which had a very funny editor who just liked to drink most of the day and was amused by Patrick and hired him as film critic . |
| 10 | With the white pieces , he seemed intent on avoiding any continuation that might give him an advantage , playing into total equality , then drifting into an inferior position and time-trouble . |
| 11 | We thought we 'd give him some work this time . ’ |
| 12 | Nobody believes that is going to happen , least of all Jack Charlton , who says taking the Irish to the finals will give him as much satisfaction as he drew from winning the competition with England in 1966 . |
| 13 | A Pakistani called Jansher Khan is the champion , and they will not give him his prize money because he walked out of the official dinner . |
| 14 | You ask a man who has a bit more experience and plenty of common sense ad he 'll say to you , ‘ Get the lad in , bring him home to his parents and the father will give him a clip round the ear . ’ |
| 15 | If I did n't give him a square meal on Monaghan Day he 'd drink himself stupid in Mohill . ’ |
| 16 | Sometimes she would give him money on the sly and he would help her with chores . |
| 17 | Just because the guy can drop names we have all heard of and used to know Bruce McLaren does n't give him the right to bore us every week . |
| 18 | The solicitor said of the award : ‘ It 's a reasonable figure which will give him satisfactory compensation for a very serious road accident . ’ |
| 19 | It would n't do him any harm to take this ungoverned creature for a short jaunt in the fields and the experience would give him a splendid ascendancy over Inspector Burden when he walked into the station at nine-thirty . |
| 20 | He half hoped she would give him one of them by mistake so that he could make a scene , but she did n't . |
| 21 | I like presents and all that , but — I du n no — if it 's Jesus 's birthday then why do n't we give him prezzies ? |
| 22 | It seemed that the manager remembered it plainly , too , because as they entered the restaurant , he came from behind his desk like a bolted rabbit and , before Frau Nordern had time to speak , assured her that everything would be in order if only , his hands out wide , beseechingly , if only the gnädige Frau would give him a date . |
| 23 | He longed to do some real work that would give him some satisfaction at the end of a day , yet there seemed to be nothing for him to do . |
| 24 | I am sure that you will give him the same affirmation and support you gave to me when I arrived . |
| 25 | The same mixture of steel and sparkle could give him a hat-trick over Jansher . |
| 26 | On the first anniversary of that invasion , when thousands of Czechoslovak demonstrators were dispersed on Mr Husak 's orders by the police with military support , he was awarded the Order of Lenin , the highest honour the Russians could give him , and his acceptance of it sealed his fate once and for all Within two years of becoming party leader he purged all but 26 of the central committee members who had been in office before the invasion . |
| 27 | The top chasers have a habit of being able to give weight and a beating to their more humble rivals and although Barnbrook Again appears to have been given a stiff task in conceding 8lb to Rusch de Farges , his two runs already this season should give him the advantage . |
| 28 | Vic Furlong : ‘ He was always a bit of a dreamer in that I 'd give him a job to do , come back in about an hour and he was still chatting , the job unfinished , so he had to go . |
| 29 | Margaret Jones : ‘ He only took the job for his father 's sake because his father thought that all this business with groups and music could well be a passing fad and that at least if he spent a year or two at work , it would give him some stable grounding to fall back on . |
| 30 | This would give him control of editorial policy . |