Example sentences of "[noun] he gave [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the quick glance he gave her she saw that had surprised him . |
| 2 | Look , here is the drawing he gave me : see how fine it is , how accurate , how personal … |
| 3 | In return for Jos 's labour he gave him bed and board . ’ |
| 4 | I only read a little in the books he gave me , picked up what I could . |
| 5 | At the hill beyond the village he gave them money . |
| 6 | Nicholson , while rejecting Corman as his ‘ mentor ’ gladly acknowledges the start and subsequent ten years ' work he gave him . |
| 7 | She nibbled the toast he gave her unenthusiastically , but she had to admit it helped — her head was now using muffled drums . |
| 8 | Both the way he selected people and the status and accountability he gave them might have been suggested to him by John Howard . |
| 9 | Even under Edward 's guidance it proved difficult to feel my way into the texts he gave me to read . |
| 10 | In return he gave them other ground at the rear of the church and also on the right-hand side of the new road and bordering Killicomaine Road . |
| 11 | So I got Peggy up from Somerset , on the same farm you see , and that was much better , and erm we 've been cycling to Stroud , to the pictures you know , 8 miles there and 8 miles back , and erm but the awful job he gave me to do for a few days was along , there was a young lad there and he was going to drive the old heavy fords and tractor and I was going to walk behind , and he 'd got converted horse drags I suppose they call them |
| 12 | And I was with Deborah he gave me a hard |
| 13 | Though engrossed in picking his teeth with a match he gave me a long appraising stare before addressing me in rich cockney . |
| 14 | The attention he gave you , when he gave you attention , was absolute . |
| 15 | If Professor Benson here were to make a very brief precis of the lecture he gave us in the wardroom this evening it might give them something more to think about . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ With his left hand he snatched the gun from the Pole 's hands , and with his right he gave him a violent blow to the ear . ’ |
| 17 | Of the smaller works he gave a copy to every family , and if a family was too poor to afford a Bible he gave them one . |
| 18 | He was 88 years old and the smile he gave me as we said goodbye made my day . |
| 19 | He looked white and tired , and the smile he gave her in greeting was strained . |
| 20 | From the slight smile he gave her she judged him friendly , but dignified ; conscious of his position in the household . |
| 21 | I 'm sorry , ’ he repeated , and the smile he gave her was so gentle that the angry words she had been going to utter died , locked somewhere in her throat . |
| 22 | The smile he gave her was familiar , full of charm , and yet she was now able to see it for what it was ; totally false and lacking in warmth . |
| 23 | That were one of the best nights in my life , the charge we gave Arthur he gave it straight back to us . " |
| 24 | The knowledge he gave me . |
| 25 | I 'm just waiting to see what mark he gave me . |
| 26 | After a while he gave her a sidelong glance under his enviable black lashes . |
| 27 | It was not until about a year later , when I became the High Master of Warboys , that I took him into Warboys and made him a sort of Staff pilot flying Oxford aircraft on special navigational training exercises ; this was something that I could physically check and I do not know why it is , and I am not being clever now , I just accepted the evidence he gave me of this phoney flying . |
| 28 | In response to this request he gave them the Lord 's Prayer , in which we pray first of all for God Himself , that all may know him and revere Him , that his mile may be extended over all , and that his will , so right and good and loving , may be done on earth , as it is by angels , prophets and saints in heaven . |
| 29 | Well at any rate he gave me a ring about erm sometime about four o'clock I think . |
| 30 | Mr Pumblechook seemed to agree with my sister that I should be punished as much as possible , even when eating , and so for breakfast next morning he gave me a large piece of bread with very little butter , and a cup of warm water with very little milk , and insisted on checking my learning . |