Example sentences of "[conj] gave him [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the Royal College for the Blind at Hereford that gave him new inspiration by teaching him how to sculpt . |
| 2 | Though the business was thriving , there was one aspect that gave him great concern and over which he was powerless to exercise any sort of control . |
| 3 | That night he slept in an old cardboard box that he 'd found , and that gave him some protection from the chilling morning dew . |
| 4 | Denyer decided to put together a mix of landscapes and portraits , images that gave him particular visual pleasure . |
| 5 | There were fairly obvious warnings here for a man contemplating the future independence of his own country , but , if he was shocked by what he saw here , it was the land freed by Toussaint Louverture , Haiti , that gave him most food for thought . |
| 6 | Ruth put the shell away in the safest pocket of her waterproof , and gave him one of the chocolate bars . |
| 7 | His passionate onslaught at the 1985 party conference against the Militants of Merseyside ( whom he accused of hiring taxis to hand out redundancy notices to their workers ) appealed to the unions and gave him new public stature . |
| 8 | Sergeant licked Master 's face and hands and gave him playful nips on the arms . |
| 9 | Certain shareholders sold their shares to a take-over bidder , received the purchase price and gave him irrevocable proxies to vote on their behalf , but , in the light of the articles , transfers were not to be lodged for registration . |
| 10 | Even in Britain in the last years of the nineteenth century a high foreign office official had fairly frequent interviews , on the instructions of Lord Salisbury , the prime minister and foreign secretary , with Reuter 's agent in London and gave him selected information considered helpful to British policy . |
| 11 | Mr Fractor shouted at him each lesson and gave him two lengths of the corridor nearly every week . |
| 12 | I pulled up underneath the e/a and gave him two bursts … the e/a was last seen at sea level eight miles away heading towards Sicily with some speed but apparently little concern . ’ |
| 13 | The first gave him a degree of control over appointment to benefices in the Church ; the second referred certain cases to his court and gave him certain prerogative powers . |
| 14 | , . I had a very serious patient er , the other day , and I treated him and gave him six months to live , but at the end of six months , he did n't pay his account , so I gave him another six months . , . |
| 15 | He did n't go to Mass , but it was said that the priests came down to him once a month and heard his confession and gave him Holy Communion . |
| 16 | Mrs ze Schluderpacheru had taken pity on him , and gave him some sweeping-up chores in return for room and board and the occasional session with Fat Juanita . |
| 17 | Felix 's wife began to recite her poetry , and wondered about his air fare , and gave him some coffee . |
| 18 | There was little delegation of authority , but Di Tella 's personal participation enhanced his authority and gave him considerable control . |
| 19 | Maybe she tied him up and gave him soft whip . |
| 20 | When a boy arrived at Eton he was allocated to a " classical tutor " who oversaw his work and gave him special tuition . |
| 21 | He remained in the royal household under Richard III , who knighted him and gave him further land in Northamptonshire and London in 1484 . |
| 22 | The grandparents completely dominated the boy and gave him high levels of attention for his difficult behaviour . |
| 23 | The injury temporarily blinded one eye and gave him double vision in the other , but is now no more than a bruise , said his wife . |
| 24 | She was teasing , but I answered , ‘ I 'd guess Mercer assured the waiter he would n't be fired and took him aside and gave him twenty dollars . ’ |
| 25 | It was alleged by his widow that Thomas Flete , as agent of Clemens , ‘ … him feloniously slew and murdered and clove his head in four parties and gave him ten deadly wounds in his body and when he was dead they cut off one of his legs and one of his arms and his head from his body to make him sure ’ . |
| 26 | I contacted the landowner immediately after the inquest to inform him of the result and gave him three coins , one for each of his sons . |
| 27 | He thanked the singer and gave him another sop , which he could ill afford . |
| 28 | It hired a competent manager from the private sector , Silvio Pelizzoni , but gave him little power . |
| 29 | Perversely , in the way of Customs Officers , we insisted but gave him ten minutes to clear up , then climbed on board to see to the necessary documentation . |