Example sentences of "he credit " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charlie was dead keen on Lilian doing him credit and she always did , always looked as if she 'd just stepped out of a bandbox . |
| 2 | You have got to give him credit . |
| 3 | He was immediately released from his confinement , but he was still liable to the man who had given him credit in the belief he could keep his promise to pay later . |
| 4 | The embarrassing reality was that Burrows had proved more wily than his pursuers had given him credit for , and had managed to give the S.O.U. the slip . |
| 5 | But why not give him credit for a simple human weakness ; the attraction of eating a good dinner which he has n't had to cook ? ’ |
| 6 | His marriage was in a mess but , to give him credit , he never once uttered the words , ‘ My wife does n't understand me . ’ |
| 7 | But , despite capitulating to the spinner himself , Windies skipper Richie Richardson said : ‘ You 've got to give him credit to him because he got the result but he 's not a threat really . |
| 8 | Jackie is , I suspect , a far more complex personality than most people give him credit for . |
| 9 | But the way he did it was with the same connections he defied , and to get into serious racing in his early days , he got a bank to give him credit and a sponsor to give him some backing : though he had n't , of his own , a sou in the world . |
| 10 | Perhaps Adams was more astute than he gave him credit for . |
| 11 | Give him credit though , he had fought his way to the top and had made good . |
| 12 | ‘ You have to give him credit for his choice of weapons , especially the Desert Eagle , ’ Sabrina said . |
| 13 | Hazel was beginning to feel that all would be well and that Bigwig had more sense than he had given him credit for , when Fiver sat up on his hind legs , cleaned his face with his paws and then , for the first time , looked directly at him . |
| 14 | You have to give him credit : he keeps his cool and works the percentages . |
| 15 | And , to pay him credit , I think once Mrs Thatcher had gone Douglas Hurd took advantage of the new leadership to drop the demand for a war crimes tribunal , and he has tried very hard recently to develop a common approach to the postwar situation with France , Germany and Italy , the three key countries . |
| 16 | Still , the trip might buy him credit with the boss , unless he thought Cormack was a sycophantic idiot offering to take the things in the first place , which was equally likely . |
| 17 | I give him credit for that , although I can not give much credit to his policy of favouring a 50 per cent . |
| 18 | They spent their honeymoon at rue Roland , by the way — Hugh was the classic brilliant but penniless academic at the time and , to do him credit , he did n't want to take Veronica 's money . |
| 19 | He was more modest than I 'd given him credit for . |
| 20 | Either he loved Kirsty less than she had given him credit for , or he hated Shiona even more fiercely than she had ever suspected . |