Example sentences of "he [vb past] give [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ever since he 'd given her that power of attorney she 'd been getting above herself . |
| 2 | My father was a Gemini , and I knew your mother was a Sagittarian as soon as I found he 'd given her half the clip . |
| 3 | Erm but he 'd given me this number , Glen about Portakabins . |
| 4 | Ven would love it if , though he 'd given her ample time , she kept him waiting . |
| 5 | And he 'd given her two fivers first . |
| 6 | ‘ Did you have a — ? ’ good trip , Leith might have said , but as if thinking he 'd given them enough time to sort themselves out , Naylor was butting in , and positively flabbergasting her by what he chose to interrupt with ! |
| 7 | Now all I 'm saying is that he undertook to give us those in forty eight hours . |
| 8 | They begged him to desist , in order to give them some words of edification , and for two consecutive hours he proceeded to give them excellent exhortations , while at the same time never ceasing his writing — and all the while what he was writing was not the same as what he was speaking . |
| 9 | ‘ Oh , well , please yourself , ’ he said and , worried lest Primrose should have felt excluded from the conversation , as well as the trip to Southampton , he offered to give her two of his tickets to Wimbledon . |
| 10 | Nutty had once accused him of giving his mare extra feed at night because she was fatter than all the others , but it was true : he did give her extra . |
| 11 | I 'd only been in Monty 's poky little office for ten minutes and already he had given me two priceless lessons in my future profession — to make sure I dressed properly , and never be afraid to ask the question " Why ? " |
| 12 | Perhaps he had given him some idea of when he would be home . |
| 13 | He had a good later reputation , and according to Osbern was very acceptable to Cnut because he had given him holy chrism . |
| 14 | Just for a moment she let her hand linger on his sleeve , then slowly withdrew it , wondering if she was glad or sorry that he had given her such an insight into what made him the man he was today . |
| 15 | She tried to pull her scattered thoughts into some sort of order , but all she could do was wonder if the cold , level gaze he had given her betokened indifference or anger . |
| 16 | It reminded her how he had given her naked body that same assessment in the shower last night . |
| 17 | He had given her that household , a little society , warming itself in its own glow of virtue , insulating itself from the big bad world ; but within its own limits it had been open and supportive . |
| 18 | If Benjamin had given her nothing else in their life together he had given her this child , and for that Sarah would forgive him anything . |
| 19 | Anyway , he had given her enough money to have the baby comfortably ; and she had already made up her mind that she was n't going to have it adopted . |
| 20 | Not only had David Anthony been her grandfather 's name , but the name he had given his adopted son . |
| 21 | But he had given it all up and returned to the business world as a marketing executive . |
| 22 | His anger was real but so continuously felt that once he had given it adequate ( in his own mind ) expression , it ceased to modify his actions . |
| 23 | And erm and say I went shopping and I I saw that and I liked it and I thought oh I 'll go in and ask how much it is , he said give us twenty five quid for it , you can have the lot . |
| 24 | Well he said give I twenty pound |
| 25 | In other words , he wished to give his own canvases a dimension that in a sense already existed in sculpture , or at least in free-standing sculpture . |
| 26 | He hoped to give his written determination on the evidence some time next month . |
| 27 | You could n't get fatter than he was in gold , and he wanted to give it all away to the revolution ; he was Malatesta 's friend , and Malatesta parted him from his money , sweet and easy does it -all they got for their pains was years of exile and prison , and a few dead policemen . ’ |