Example sentences of "gave him [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His jacket was flame-proofed and we gave him protective padding at the back , just in case . ’ |
| 2 | Most damaging to the action man myth of JFK was his serious adrenaline disorder , Addison 's disease , which gave him acute back pain . |
| 3 | It was a strange place and it gave him strange ideas ; he was oddly aware of those who had played , and loved and quarrelled there . |
| 4 | Some of the men gave him curious looks because of the blood that had sheeted his right side . |
| 5 | One of the sport 's most natural drivers — no one , ever , participated in more forms of motor sport , for as long or even remotely as successfully — he favoured , as a simple man , those things which gave him simple pleasures . |
| 6 | In fact , the anomalous status gave him greater leeway . |
| 7 | Under his guidance , Parliament House was transformed from a nineteenth-century warren into a modern court-house and nothing gave him greater pleasure than to explore , and share with others , its secrets and treasures . |
| 8 | Gwynn Jones received many other honours but none gave him greater pleasure than the publication of a selection of his poems , Detholiad o Ganiadau , by the Gregynog Press in 1926 , and the de luxe edition , issued in 1932–7 by Hughes & Son , Wrexham , of six volumes of selected poems and essays . |
| 9 | This gave him ample opportunities to put the British case . |
| 10 | It gave him ample time to check the house . |
| 11 | Nicholson will be glad when he can remove for the last time the putty nose , hairpiece and false front tooth the make-up wizards gave him each day to make him a mirror-image of bully-boy Hoffa . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The love affair gave him new life , he looked better , drank less and stayed away from the cafés . |
| 14 | It was the Royal College for the Blind at Hereford that gave him new inspiration by teaching him how to sculpt . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , say I then took Fiona off him and maybe I told him to go find himself another filly and the next thing was he got a pincer-hold on my ear and was bopping me one on the nose and there I was bleeding fit to fill the Frenchy furrows so naturally I gave him one back . ’ |
| 16 | " Oh , I gave him one back . " |
| 17 | Now he worked in offices of the Gas Board , and was studying accountancy , mostly at night , though the Board gave him one day off each week to attend classes . |
| 18 | The Woman gave him one look and then switched off the light and Doyle settled himself in the chair and sat silently in the shadows . |
| 19 | Mr Fractor shouted at him each lesson and gave him two lengths of the corridor nearly every week . |
| 20 | He had to rely on a kind-hearted local butcher who gave him two chickens a week to build up his strength . |
| 21 | Lyn gave him two pounds . |
| 22 | She gave him two goodwill letters addressed to legendary West Indian cricketers Mr Wes Hall and Sir Garfield Sobers . |
| 23 | However , he seems to have overlooked the fact that Ferrari gave him two race wins last year and that the Scuderia 's tally of six victories this year is four more than Williams was able to score . |
| 24 | 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 . ’ |
| 25 | BOBBY GOULDING is no saint — but I 'm glad the disciplinary committee only gave him two matches last night after his trial by TV . |
| 26 | When Geoffrey son of Sarah of Empingham resisted this illegal demand , the forester raised the hue and cry upon him , and distrained him until he gave him two shillings and found sureties for appearing at the attachment court . |
| 27 | That gave him two options . |
| 28 | The doctors gave him two years to live . |
| 29 | When he left , she gave him two chimney pots , which had previously been on her house . |
| 30 | The Emmanuel College list gave him minimal information about matriculation and tripos results . |