Example sentences of "give he [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ How can I understand it , how can I understand it ? ’ he went on and on accusingly , as though scientists are to blame for not inventing a magic serum that would give him instant knowledge . |
| 2 | and what 's , Richard 's been , did you give him that duster ? |
| 3 | so if you wanted to go see if you change William 's thing to the colour I want and if they had , he said he thought the shirt that the guy got with it matched it better than the smaller check , so do you wan na give him that check shirt that I bought him ? |
| 4 | She would not give him that pleasure , she thought savagely . |
| 5 | But she would n't give him that satisfaction . |
| 6 | And I think if if people like Thomson can sort of give him that sort of service he 's going to make life awfully difficult for the Forest de central defence . |
| 7 | Err , let's give him one pound , no , thirty pound . |
| 8 | It would give him great pleasure to write a large cheque for something special for Rose 's birthday — a particularly splendid piece of jewellery , perhaps — but he could n't . |
| 9 | The matter gave him enormous regret , no doubt an unhappy situation whose solution lay in the lap of the all-merciful Allah ; nothing would give him greater pleasure than to return to Mr Laing his passport , which he had taken into nightly safekeeping only at the specific request of Mr Pyle . |
| 10 | Mortified , inwardly seething with fury at this last suggestion , Caroline had endured Roman 's taunting smile as he 'd wryly assured his hostess that nothing would give him greater pleasure … |
| 11 | Buckley 's Grimsby Town have won five and drawn one of their last six to ease within sight of the famous names at the top — and nothing would give him greater satisfaction than to leave them behind at the end of the season . |
| 12 | She did , however , give him occasional cause for jealousy : a lover 's tiff nearly broke their engagement when Constanze indiscreetly confessed that during a game she had let another young man measure her calves . |
| 13 | Churlish indeed the man who wishes his neighbour a Merry Christmas but does not give him tangible proof of this to put on his mantlepiece . |
| 14 | Victory would give him 314,328 cup points . |
| 15 | Victory would give him 314,328 cup points . |
| 16 | The solicitor said of the award : ‘ It 's a reasonable figure which will give him satisfactory compensation for a very serious road accident . ’ |
| 17 | This echoes the statement in their second encounter that he , Porfiry , has no intention of making an immediate arrest because by doing so he would give the murderer somebody to be : ‘ I 'd give him , so to say , a definite position , I 'd give him psychological definition and peace . ’ |
| 18 | She said he 's hoping they 're gon na give him full employment . |
| 19 | It did in fact run out , and still Anselm had not received the pallium which would give him full authority as archbishop . |
| 20 | But there again er it was the time we lived in and you had certain Well yards had their own way of trying to keep track of when a guy was in a toilet etcetera and sometimes you would have to hand in y your er your time ticket , to the toilet attendant , and you would give him this ticket and he would say right you are , you know , and mark down your number on a book and say to you , well you 've got seven minutes or something you know . |
| 21 | And he 'd got a boy who did stutter and he always used to go to granddad before er he when he came to school , before lessons and he 'd give him this pebble and he 'd say , now you can put it in your pocket . |
| 22 | ‘ Well , when he comes in , could you give him this envelope ? ’ |
| 23 | Deane is evidently capable of playing football , they should give him more opportunity to do it . |
| 24 | At times I would give him more sedation than other times because of the course of the illness . |
| 25 | The official appointment would n't give him more money . |
| 26 | According to Brisbane dealer Phillip Bacon , ‘ Bond was passionate about his Australian collection and its dispersal will give him more pain than many more valuable assets ’ . |
| 27 | In fact , when he gets a goal you will see an even bigger difference in him because that will give him more confidence . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ That would give him more confidence and he would be able to establish himself in the side . ’ |
| 29 | He did n't want to drag them , because even though it would give him more room there would be a risk of noise which might attract the attention of the housekeeper . |
| 30 | If the hon. Member would like to see me privately , I shall give him more information . |