Example sentences of "[noun sg] give him a [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked Make-Up to give him a few mosquito bites but he refused point-blank . |
| 2 | His senior secretary had been instructed to cancel his engagements for that evening to give him a few hours ' peace before a six-month period in which his diary was entirely filled . |
| 3 | Johnny Dawes had a whipround in the pub as a sort of True Path benefit gig to give him a few days more . |
| 4 | She kept a pretty green budgerigar called Peter , who once dropped dead in his cage but came back to life when Nanny gave him a few drops of gin squeezed from a wad of cotton-wool . |
| 5 | Ten days on the ocean gave him a few chances to visit the cabins of single women , but until they arrived in New York , there were no places to escape once the liaison ended , however passionately , half-heartedly , or ephemerally it had begun . |