Example sentences of "gave him the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Oui , ’ she said , and gave him the folded note . |
| 2 | Azharuddin gave him the three-fours-in-an-over treatment , driving all three off the back foot . |
| 3 | They gave him the leave which he sought . |
| 4 | The bishop gave him the extraordinary advice to go and be a curate again , at Boston in Lincolnshire . |
| 5 | Weston 's 1920 From Ritual to Romance gave him the tarot pack and backed up Frazer 's emphasis on links between sexuality and religion . |
| 6 | In addition , his setting out the poet 's connection with the primitive gave him the status of a societal elder , one who , lecturing in America , would pronounce on literature and society as Arnold had done less than fifty years before him . |
| 7 | Eliot 's vision of the urbane savage was very different from Arnold 's , but gave him the same privileges as his Romantic predecessor . |
| 8 | The combination of a broad industrial experience and a close understanding of how the typical mineworker views life gave him the confidence to take on a responsibility which a less courageous man might well have ducked . |
| 9 | Ironically , it was the Government which he partly blamed for the affair that gave him the chance to return to work after retirement . |
| 10 | Graham 's father actually gave him the money to buy it from Brixton , after we 'd been there to see it . |
| 11 | The letters gave him the chance of ‘ discarding or of adapting to my own purpose the fine words and infinite variety of constructions which I had formerly admired from afar and imitated in fairly cold blood . ’ |
| 12 | His accuracy and stinginess with runs made him almost without equal as a one-day bowler , for he could both contain and attack at the same time since the bounce he got from his great height and the control he had over the ball gave him the extra penetration that brought wickets . |
| 13 | Being signed by Hampshire as replacement for Andy Roberts just a few months after his Test debut gave him the chance to impress Clive Lloyd in county matches and in 1982 he really came good with 134 wickets , the best season 's haul since the reduction in championship matches in 1969 . |
| 14 | She came back through the kitchen and gave him the torch . |
| 15 | Philip pushed him away and gave him the torch to hold while he did up his lace . |
| 16 | ‘ They gave him the oxygen , to help him breathe . |
| 17 | Adam lost his spiritual purity through eating the forbidden fruit , so God gave him the opportunity to reinstate himself partially through immersion in the original water which came from Eden . |
| 18 | During this time Coe was on the dole and living in Bermondsey , and it is this period of his life that gave him the basis for The Dwarves of Death . |
| 19 | And the idea they gave him the Sammy Davis Jr Award just infuriates me . |
| 20 | After posing for this snapshot , Arsenio gave him the brush off . |
| 21 | He was fading away ‘ like the old soldier in the ballad , an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty . ’ |
| 22 | It was almost a religious conviction he had , and one which gave him the courage to carry out his plans . |
| 23 | North , carefully distracting Livingstone from the thought that hostages might have been ransomed for arms , gave him the Whole Picture . |
| 24 | Second hurdle , managed it a bit better , gave him the signal three strides from the jump , felt him lift off at the right time , felt his assurance flow back and his faith in me revive , even if provisionally . |
| 25 | I unzipped the pouch round my waist and gave him the small jar of paint and the sawn-off paintbrush . |
| 26 | I gave him the bad news without preamble . |
| 27 | But he could justify this because there were other Scots besides Elder , drawn from the ranks of the leading politicians , who gave him the same message . |
| 28 | The artist gave him the nickname ‘ Salai ’ after a popular devil character . |
| 29 | Morris , the Gloucester left wing , did not move to cover Swift as he sprinted across again from the right wing , so Swift was left with such a clear overlap when Guscott and Fallon gave him the ball that he was able to score unopposed . |
| 30 | That gave Webb an easy catch and it gave him the time to see that Bath would have a man over if he ran the ball to the left . |