Example sentences of "and [noun] give he [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 He opened the boomgate and Whitlock gave him a friendly wave as he drove past on his way to the visitors ' car park .
2 Danny 's eyelids were drooping as he sat in front of the warm fire and Nellie gave him a blinding look .
3 The dragging breath and the bullet holes at front and back gave him an easy diagnosis .
4 Ezekiel was bold enough to long for this too , and God gave him the marvellous vision of the valley of the dry bones ( chapter 37 ) as an assurance that the longed-for day would indeed come .
5 He was not a tall man , but something about his confidence and reputation gave him an impressive stature .
6 Coleridge 's silence and solitude gives him an immediate affinity with this frost , and his work of meditation is also an unseen action .
7 His friends and colleagues gave him a memorable send off and presented him with binoculars ( for his bird watching ) , a leather writing case ( so that he can drop us a line from far off places ) and a couple of brandy glasses ( empty — unfortunately ) .
8 His friends and colleagues gave him a cut glass sherry decanter and group pensions manager , , complemented this gift with matching sherry glasses .
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