Example sentences of "they gave [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | They gave him his first meal , of bread for the body and purifying salt for the immortal soul , and cheered as his tiny red face puckered at the taste and he yelled lustily . |
| 32 | He was allowed to finish his song in comparative silence and when he did , they gave him a cheer . |
| 33 | But they gave him their support , none the less , and the first issue , containing political reports , original essays , poetry , and reviews , was announced for the beginning of March , the aim of the publication being , as Coleridge modestly explained , ‘ to proclaim the State of the Political Atmosphere , and preserve Freedom and her Friends from the attacks of Robbers and Assassins ! ! ’ |
| 34 | They gave him a bit of consultancy work for the first year , but after that he did n't know what he would do . |
| 35 | The plans were sent to the Governors of the Greenwich Hospital , but they gave him no encouragement . |
| 36 | Back on the recovery ship , they opened the hatch and there was Ham with his arms crossed , looking gloriously bored by the whole episode , so they gave him an apple ! |
| 37 | It was not long since every family of considerable substance was haunted by a spirit they called Browny , which did several sorts of work and this was the reason why they gave him offerings on what was called Browny 's stone . |
| 38 | They gave him a document authorising a raid and left with books , gate books and players ' contracts . |
| 39 | He was willing , if they gave him a suitable hostage to ensure their good faith , to allow Berwick ten more days of siege , whereafter , if they were not relieved by the so-called Regent , they must surrender . |
| 40 | He immediately queried the instructions and eventually they gave him a new course to steer . |
| 41 | FORMER Goon Harry Secombe , who has had a second home in Majorca for the past 15 years , reckoned he had finally been accepted by the locals when they gave him the Spanish name El Gordo . |
| 42 | Hospital doctors said Rod was minutes from death when they gave him emergency injections . |
| 43 | So they gave him milk , they gave him books to read , they allowed food parcels from the Embassy . |
| 44 | So they gave him milk , they gave him books to read , they allowed food parcels from the Embassy . |
| 45 | ‘ Seven years later they gave him a parish of his own . |
| 46 | They dressed and lit him against his character — softening where they ought to have emphasised the toughness — and they gave him a part with no verbal bite and no guts but even so it was not a bad first break for the boy from the snooker halls of Port Talbot . |
| 47 | They were full and sensuous like a woman 's , though at times they gave him a hint of cruelty . |
| 48 | Penn wanted to set up an area of toleration for Quakers something like Lord Baltimore 's Catholic colony of Maryland and , as the Stuarts owed his family money , they gave him the land grant as part of a financial settlement . |
| 49 | He should have read the writing on the machine they gave him to spin the golden thread . |
| 50 | I gave her one , they gave him two , |
| 51 | They gave him an address . |
| 52 | The airport hotel was an expensive way to live , but they gave him a trade reduction , which seemed the logically absurd extension of a farcical situation . |
| 53 | He spent the night at their hut , they gave him soft water to wash in , bread and salt and a clean , sweet bed . |
| 54 | ( He should have won a Nobel Prize for general relativity , but the idea that space and time were curved was still regarded as too speculative and controversial , so they gave him a prize for the photoelectric effect instead — ; not that it was not worth the prize on its own account . ) |
| 55 | So they gave him a special job . ’ |
| 56 | They gave him a good room , and ‘ here therefore we settled , ’ he said , ‘ and did not spoil the present hour with thoughts of departure . ’ |
| 57 | They gave him clothing ( which included a black jacket and striped trousers — my father 's best suit ) and enough food and water to last him until morning . |
| 58 | So then he gave them Visa , which he 'd hardly been using at all , and twenty minutes later they gave him a car . |
| 59 | ‘ Did she come through here ? ’ he demanded of the astonished-looking Chinese family at one of the restaurant 's six plain tables , and they gave him a look of complete incomprehension . |
| 60 | They gave him fortified water to drink . |