Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] give him [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1844 William Makepeace Thackeray managed to get P & O to give him a free passage on a voyage to Athens , Constantinople , Jerusalem and Cairo and earned money by writing about the trip afterwards . |
| 2 | It was said that Gertrude gave him the final result . |
| 3 | After all , days before the invasion surprised President Bush , his ambassador , presumably not speaking just for herself , told Saddam in so many words that Washington gave him the green light on Kuwait . |
| 4 | It was such a desultory question that Ruth gave him the filthiest look she could muster . |
| 5 | I 'm not a psychologist , but I read , and I would say that attitude gives him a colossal arrogance . |
| 6 | Mankiewicz always refuted stories that Sinatra gave him a hard time on the set , but one of Mankiewicz 's sons said that his father ‘ finished the picture hating Sinatra ’ . |
| 7 | He opened the boomgate and Whitlock gave him a friendly wave as he drove past on his way to the visitors ' car park . |
| 8 | Danny 's eyelids were drooping as he sat in front of the warm fire and Nellie gave him a blinding look . |
| 9 | The dragging breath and the bullet holes at front and back gave him an easy diagnosis . |
| 10 | Ezekiel was bold enough to long for this too , and God gave him the marvellous vision of the valley of the dry bones ( chapter 37 ) as an assurance that the longed-for day would indeed come . |
| 11 | He was not a tall man , but something about his confidence and reputation gave him an impressive stature . |
| 12 | Coleridge 's silence and solitude gives him an immediate affinity with this frost , and his work of meditation is also an unseen action . |
| 13 | His friends and colleagues gave him a memorable send off and presented him with binoculars ( for his bird watching ) , a leather writing case ( so that he can drop us a line from far off places ) and a couple of brandy glasses ( empty — unfortunately ) . |
| 14 | His friends and colleagues gave him a cut glass sherry decanter and group pensions manager , , complemented this gift with matching sherry glasses . |
| 15 | Joe can swerve a ball , but Fred gives him a few tips on spinning it , too — without picking the seam ! |
| 16 | I was pleased to see his grin varnish when Mala gave him the vicious edge of her tongue for ignoring the Ardakkean request for discretion , causing the FedPol squad to visit Vadinamia . |
| 17 | She kept a pretty green budgerigar called Peter , who once dropped dead in his cage but came back to life when Nanny gave him a few drops of gin squeezed from a wad of cotton-wool . |