Example sentences of "he give [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could n't see him throwing it away , but I did n't want him to give himself the chance . |
| 2 | In July 1947 he returned illegally and appealed for help to the RCM , whose representative advised him to give himself up . |
| 3 | Her parents are convinced the killer is a local man and begged him to give himself up . |
| 4 | ‘ And you told him to give himself up ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ If I knew where a deserter was it would be my duty , not as a military man but as a citizen , to report him if I could n't persuade him to give himself up . |
| 6 | Another member of staff recognised the defendant from his schooldays and told him to give himself up . |
| 7 | His sister Julie Seddon , 28 , of Skelmersdale , made an emotional appeal for him to give himself up . |
| 8 | First of all , for instance , the preparation which Milton felt it was necessary for him to give himself , was neither technical nor introspective . |
| 9 | And , in spite of police demands that he give himself up and intensive searches , he was still at large . |
| 10 | We have just caught Raskolnikov saying to himself that the moth seeks the candle-flame , and Porfiry says similar things aloud ; while behind both of them Dostoevsky is telling Katkov that the murderer demands punishment and bends to an inexorable divine and human law when he gives himself up . |
| 11 | The experience he has gained in the mines at immediately a man g a man who has been in the mines goes down there again his er n er he gives himself away , because , just because of the experiences . |
| 12 | Could we not have all guessed that Lt Col Custer ( he gave himself the rank of general ) came 34th out of the class of 34 at West Point . |
| 13 | He gave himself time before answering . |
| 14 | We had assumed that their affair would in some way be a violent one , because O was known to be violent , and because Boy made you feel strange when he gave himself away to you , a strangeness , and a feeling that you always wanted more , that often came out as violence . |
| 15 | He gave himself time to think , and to argue with his friends . |
| 16 | He gave himself up to police later that night and said he had drunk two cans of lager . |
| 17 | The real Mr Barnet , of course , is Fry himself , who says he gave himself more chance of being hit by a sniper 's bullet than getting his job back . |
| 18 | Last night , he gave himself another opportunity to set the record straight with a gutsy 9–7 win against Scotland 's Alan McManus . |
| 19 | The gusto with which he designed these posters shows how whole-heartedly he gave himself to the task in hand . |
| 20 | He grew large and plump and round-cheeked , but he was without kittenish ways as if his sad experience had robbed him prematurely of his youth , yet when he sat on Lyn 's lap in the evenings he gave himself up to a drowsy and contented purring . |
| 21 | He remembered writing of Paula 's death , — of how he could not live without knowing the truth , and how , if he gave himself into the hands of the great Whale , he knew that he would be reunited with her in death . |
| 22 | Parr was not a hasty man , and he gave himself a lot of space to think in . |
| 23 | So , he gave himself a red light on the beautiful Miss Marlowe , only to find he could n't make himself obey it . |
| 24 | Shortly after the friend appeared , he gave himself up . |
| 25 | He gave himself up this morning after eleven hours of negotiations with police . |
| 26 | He gave himself up at High Down Prison , in London . |
| 27 | The next day he gave himself up to police . |
| 28 | Shields , of Carnac Crescent , Inverness , was said to have felt so guilty that he gave himself up to police after selling some of the haul to pay for drink . |
| 29 | Just as Christ also loved the church , and he gave himself up for it . |
| 30 | He gave himself . |