Example sentences of "they give him [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ All it tells us is he must 've had a foreign accent for them to give him a name like that . |
| 2 | er and therefore for that very reason do not like to see the Government going in for a whole series of embarrassing defeats er and erm getting into very grave difficulties with an important Bill and I therefore arise only to ask my Noble Friend er at the last minute would like to consider very seriously erm a conciliatory reply of whether accepting er the amendments with er or er or some of them er with er er er view to their reconsideration or asking those who propose them to defer them from to from today 's sitting , there 's still further sittings ahead , but whether he was prepared to ask them to give him a chance to reflect without incurring serious Government defeats to reflect further on whether further amendments can not and should not be made . |
| 3 | For the brutal oriental still held one ace up his sleeve , should they give him the chance to play it . |
| 4 | Well they phoned back and they said , can you tell your husband to take his car to National Tyres er , that insurance has sent him , and could they give him an invoice for the insurance company . |
| 5 | He astounded his American masters by demanding that they give him a more worthwhile job or he would be on his way home . |
| 6 | Christian pilgrims always made sure to take a sample home with them , and then ‘ when anyone falls sick of a quartan or tertian ague or some such fever , they give him a little of this earth to drink . |
| 7 | * So I 've been a bad boy at times but they reckon I ca n't walk out on a job if I 'm in the Jungle and Matt 's temperamental which means he does n't normally work unless they give him a hamper full of white powder but he seems to have kicked it and there are n't too many dealers swinging through the trees like Tarzan out here . |
| 8 | he 's after something , h his apprenticeship so they give him a thousand pound |
| 9 | Every so often , he goes to a local hospital where they give him an injection of something , which cheers him up noticeably . |
| 10 | ‘ When they have a problem , they give him the ball and he does a few tricks . |
| 11 | At the end of the year they give him the cash . |
| 12 | They gave him a standing ovation . ’ |
| 13 | So they gave him a job . |
| 14 | Hubert Gaily liked churchyards , they gave him a curious sense of well-being . |
| 15 | They gave him a job to do for seven shillings . |
| 16 | In one of his rare public reflective moments , he looked back on the three women in his early life , Mud , Lorraine and June , with gratitude because they gave him a good start , independence and the belief that he could always take care of himself , come what may . |
| 17 | He was allowed to finish his song in comparative silence and when he did , they gave him a cheer . |
| 18 | They gave him a bit of consultancy work for the first year , but after that he did n't know what he would do . |
| 19 | They gave him a document authorising a raid and left with books , gate books and players ' contracts . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He immediately queried the instructions and eventually they gave him a new course to steer . |
| 22 | ‘ Seven years later they gave him a parish of his own . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | They were full and sensuous like a woman 's , though at times they gave him a hint of cruelty . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ( 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 . ) |
| 27 | So they gave him a special job . ’ |
| 28 | They gave him a good room , and ‘ here therefore we settled , ’ he said , ‘ and did not spoil the present hour with thoughts of departure . ’ |
| 29 | So then he gave them Visa , which he 'd hardly been using at all , and twenty minutes later they gave him a car . |
| 30 | ‘ 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 . |