Example sentences of "[vb past] give him [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chief priests promised to give him thirty pieces of silver which , according to the Old Testament , was the price of a slave . |
| 2 | She flew to give him last words of advice , all of them unnecessary . |
| 3 | But it did give him unique access to the Shah . |
| 4 | Then , for the first time in three decades , Mr Wolski had reached out his hands and touched the eagle he had loved and who had given him such comfort for so long . |
| 5 | In a lengthy letter he gave thanks to the Duke of Bedford and to the House of Russell and to the Earl of Upper Ossory , who had given him great support throughout his period of office . |
| 6 | Brahms took about fifteen years to complete his First Symphony , and when it was first performed in 1876 , he was 43 — an extraordinary late symphonic debut for a composer who had been publicly proclaimed as a genius by Schumann when he was 18 , and who had gone on to justify public expectations with such works as the ‘ German Requiem ’ , which had given him financial security for life . |
| 7 | Keith also revealed that his estranged wife , TV presenter Maggie Philbin , had given him brilliant support throughout his personal crisis . |
| 8 | His headmaster , ( Sir ) Cyril Norwood [ q.v. ] , had given him two pieces of advice : to answer all letters by return of post , and never to be afraid of unpopularity . |
| 9 | The Colonel , the Honourable , the Member of Parliament had given him more access to what nearly approached aristocratic companionship than he had ever enjoyed . |
| 10 | He also denied that his wife had given him any details of who she was supposed to be meeting at TVL at the time of the party . |
| 11 | Perhaps he had given him some idea of when he would be home . |
| 12 | After he 'd found the half-burned counterfoil slips from the railway tickets stuffed down the back of the apartment 's disused fireplace , his next move had been to return to his Militia post and report that an anonymous source had given him some information on the whereabouts of Alina Petrovna , escapee from the prison hospital and probable murderer of the psychiatrist Belov . |
| 13 | She had to give him full marks for originality . |