Example sentences of "give him [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His kisses and cuddles soothed me , and I stopped crying when he said : ‘ He 's a bad dog , and I 'll give him a good hiding for that . ’ |
| 2 | These are self-report inventories where the testee has the possibility of cheating in that he can respond with an answer which he considers will give him a good score rather than providing a completely truthful one . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'll give him a good wash , and change his socks and shoes , ’ she said . |
| 4 | ‘ That should give him a good laugh . ’ |
| 5 | which would give him a good break really to get a few things done . |
| 6 | Did you say he was in North Africa ? if we ca n't do anything about his legs we 'll give him a new head when he gets back . |
| 7 | You could even give him a hundred that 's all I 'm givi I 'm giving my da my ma two hundred pound . |
| 8 | It might even give him a nice profit on his outlay , which was nothing to worry about . |
| 9 | ‘ There must be lots of people in the village who will want to help us give him a nice birthday . |
| 10 | I might just do that ; it would give him a nice surprise . |
| 11 | His girlfriend , a dealer too , would give him a bored hard look , if she happened to be around . |
| 12 | The Leader would give him a right bollocking , but there were no hard feelings , because everyone knew that really he loved the poor little bugger , with an almost fatherly concern . |
| 13 | United manager Jim McLean revealed that he deliberately took off Michael O'Neill six minutes from the end so that the travelling support could give him a personal ovation . |
| 14 | I just tell him to shut up and give him a sharp rap across the knuckles . |
| 15 | I 'm of age , after all , and it would give him a terrible fright . |
| 16 | He always understood that the papal decree imposed on himself an absolute personal obligation of obedience , but it did not give him a general responsibility for promoting the principle , or for enforcing the obedience of others . |
| 17 | In a hurry to find me and too tired to pay attention to detail , he might give him a cursory glance and exclaim , relieved , " Ah , there you are . " |
| 18 | Faced with growing hostility or boredom over Europe , M Mitterrand threatened at the weekend to hold a referendum if the two parliamentary chambers do not give him a two-thirds majority for constitutional changes . |
| 19 | Er but I said I could n't give him a definite quote for a price , because I would n't have the Committee . |
| 20 | These will have been issued with a fixed redemption value and we must assume that the holder calculated that this would give him a return equal or similar to alternative returns currently available . |
| 21 | I do n't exclude myself from myself , but I I I 'd give him a nine and I I 'd come in at a seven I think . |
| 22 | The honourable gentleman said that was a straight question , I shall give him a straight answer , er no it would n't , er if I can return to the line of er explanation I was giving Mr Deputy Speaker . |
| 23 | It would n't do him any harm to take this ungoverned creature for a short jaunt in the fields and the experience would give him a splendid ascendancy over Inspector Burden when he walked into the station at nine-thirty . |
| 24 | He 'll give him a greater measure of liberty even so , if Harry 'll give his parole , but Harry 'll give him nothing short of a dagger . |
| 25 | The reality was that he could walk into any bar or restaurant anywhere in the world and no one would give him a second glance . |
| 26 | If he appeared in that door now , probably none of the girls here would give him a second glance : it 's all long hair and round shoulders now , is n't it , like yesterday 's flowers . |
| 27 | People got in and out of the lifts and did n't give him a second glance . |
| 28 | If I met Pam 's bloke coming down Briggate I 'd give him a wide berth . |
| 29 | Right shall we , now we 're gon na give , shall we give him a yellow scarf ? |
| 30 | At this rate she might as well give him a blow-by-blow description of the last time they had shared the bench , and save him the trouble of remembering . |