Example sentences of "to give he [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Smith started to give him new clothes but soon realized that William had no wish to be clean , as on the next visit the new suit would be filthy . |
| 2 | The chief priests promised to give him thirty pieces of silver which , according to the Old Testament , was the price of a slave . |
| 3 | Have to give him four claps , one two three four hurray ! |
| 4 | ‘ As soon as I 've rung my Orderly Officer to give him certain instructions , I 'll have to get off back . ’ |
| 5 | Azhag possessed a strange iron crown which appeared to give him sorcerous powers . |
| 6 | They 'd fed him and had the decency to give him fresh clothes , the shirt , blue jeans and a broad leather belt with embossed brass buckle to hold them up — camping-shop gear but adequate against the chill of November . |
| 7 | Kenneth rotated his shoulders as he drove , trying to ease the nagging pain in them that too much drink the night before always seemed to give him these days . |
| 8 | She flew to give him last words of advice , all of them unnecessary . |
| 9 | She had to give him full marks for originality . |
| 10 | He persuaded creditors to give him three years to make a go of the garden . |
| 11 | With the beginning of the 1947–8 season , John was transferred to the Sadler 's Wells Ballet at Covent Garden to give him more chances to work as a dancer with experienced choreographers . |
| 12 | You know because if you are going to ask an employer to enter into a contract between the between an individual employee , then really you 've got to give him some advantages to do that and I think that er I do n't know what the figures are or the number of final salary pension schemes that have been launched in the last couple of years , but I should think it be , be quite few and I think that there is a difficulty that if we go too far in taking power away from the er from the employer , erm then I , I can see the demise of final salary pension schemes , so I think one 's got to keep a balance there of erm you know that i that you must n't turn the employee off completely from this type of scheme . |
| 13 | All the same , Connor suggested to him privately that it might not be a bad idea for him to learn something about the art of self-defence , and offered to give him some lessons . |