Example sentences of "by giving him [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the government-controlled newspaper Izvestia , the staff threatened to go on strike when their editor , who is a Kravchenko-like conservative , tried to get rid of his liberal deputy by giving him a cushy job as Madrid correspondent . |
| 2 | The father , for his part , must make sure that these privileges are properly passed on to him by giving him a death-bed blessing . |
| 3 | Richard , however , had already made overtures of friendship to the Sicilian king and cemented this by giving him a rich and generous gift — Excalibur , the magical sword of King Arthur . |
| 4 | Suppose every time one of your subordinates turns in completed work ahead of time you react by giving him a whole load more , what may happen ? |
| 5 | Once you are on the course , be positive and give your horse the best chance at each obstacle , by giving him a good approach to each one and plenty of encouragement with the legs ( and voice and whip if need be ) . |
| 6 | Daughter of the Queen Igrayne and half-sister to King Arthur , she revealed to him the intrigue between Lancelot and Guinevere by giving him a magic draught which opened his eyes to the perfidy . |
| 7 | TERRORISTS tried to murder a soldier last night by giving him a tin of chocolates containing a bomb . |
| 8 | The Manchester-based Alsecure team have backed McGuigan by giving him a free drive in the rally , plus an attempt at next year 's British Championship , but experienced co-driver Allan Whittaker is cautious about the Irishman 's chances . |
| 9 | The Police were so worried about Davies in the sixth round of the Schweppes Cup last season that they knocked him out by giving him a Saturday shift . |
| 10 | So many cities enrolled him as a freeman , usually by giving him a scroll of membership in a gold box , that Horace Walpole summed up his popularity in the phrase ‘ For some weeks it rained gold boxes ’ , and the more prosaic Duke of Newcastle recognized that no government could survive if Pitt opposed it . |
| 11 | In his " titanic struggle with the Shipping Federation , Wilson was utterly reckless in his statements , with the result that writs for libel were showered upon him and often we helped him escape being served with those most unpleasing documents by giving him a " leg up " over the backyard wall " . |
| 12 | By giving him a place in contemporary history going back to Tony Cragg , Anish Kapoor , Richard Deacon , the dealer enhances his credibility . |
| 13 | Suppose that he has to produce , not the complete works of Shakespeare but just the short sentence " Methinks it is like a weasel " , and we shall make it relatively easy by giving him a typewriter with a restricted keyboard , one with just the 26 ( capital ) letters , and a space bar . |
| 14 | Most of all , I would worry if they sought Continued on Page 2 Continued from Page 1 to demonstrate their solidarity with a man in a spot of bother by giving him a present perhaps a watch inscribed ‘ do n't let the buggers get you down ’ after all , it appears to be a coded message that it 's time for an early and a swift departure . ’ |
| 15 | Most of all , I would worry if they sought Continued on Page 2 Continued from Page 1 to demonstrate their solidarity with a man in a spot of bother by giving him a present perhaps a watch inscribed ‘ do n't let the buggers get you down ’ after all , it appears to be a coded message that it 's time for an early and a swift departure . ’ |
| 16 | And once they were christened , as we might expect , the ‘ Hooligans ’ were understood as an entirely unprecedented and ‘ un-British ’ phenomenon : indeed , we must allow that it was most ingenious of late Victorian England to disown the British Hooligan by giving him an ‘ Irish ’ name . |
| 17 | He managed somehow to get Caspar near the tree and by giving him the wrapping to chew he got him to stop barking . |
| 18 | The old king rewarded Sigmar by giving him the warhammer Ghal Maraz , or Skull Splitter , an ancient magic heirloom of Kurgan 's house . |
| 19 | Louis and his great men deliberated , and decided : at the summer assembly in July , the Ordinatio Imperii accommodated Lothar 's ambitions by giving him the title of co-emperor forthwith and promising him the whole of Francia on his father 's demise . |
| 20 | Anthemius intended to acknowledge his achievements by giving him the title of patricius , but the emperor was himself killed by Gundobad . |