Example sentences of "[noun sg] and give him [det] " in BNC.

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1 The old man had sunk to his knees , so , ignoring the Blackshirt on the pavement , I tried to rescue what I could from my medicine case and give him some first aid .
2 He thanked the singer and gave him another sop , which he could ill afford .
3 At a meeting in Newcastle , the Committee of Coal Owners in Newcastle voted in favour both of Stephenson 's claim for priority and to give him some money for it .
4 The landlord of the other pub comes in occasionally , orders and ½pint and give him this note . ’
5 Having passed from the Mediterranean to the Indus without attracting the attention of a single government official , Battuta , like so many subsequent travellers , crossed the Indian frontier only to find himself caught up in an impenetrable web of bureaucracy : no sooner had they set foot on the east bank of the Indus than intelligence officials ‘ wrote to Delhi informing the king of our arrival and giving him all the details concerning us . ’
6 The best way to avoid such dangers was to make the secretary a government appointee and give him some official status and the modicum of job security which it brought .
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