Example sentences of "he give the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How much more your Heavenly Father will he give the Holy Spirit to those who ask of him ? |
| 2 | Only when he saw others smiling and laughing did he give the little barks . |
| 3 | He gives the traditional account of how a merchant ship was pillaged in the Red Sea and its crew and passengers massacred except for two boys who were brought to Ella Amida in Aksum . |
| 4 | He gives the strong impression of having been practical and conciliatory , a man who inspired confidence in those with whom he had dealings . |
| 5 | Diodorus ' sources were less interested in it than in Sicily , as was Diodorus himself : he gives the Roman consuls and even some episodes of Roman history like the Decemvirate , but does not help much with the Greek cities which are our present concern . |
| 6 | Not only does Nithard say in which vernacular languages the two kings addressed their men ( though he records the addresses in Latin ) , but he gives the ensuing oaths in vernacular texts that are among the earliest examples of Old High German and Old French . |
| 7 | If we ask who is to gauge that ( presumably not God ) , he gives the unhelpful and not a little pompous reply that it is ‘ known with clarity and precision only by some few thinking men in every nation and every age ’ ( p. 64 ) . |
| 8 | He gives the obvious explanation that Shakespeare has read Ovid on Salmacis , and spices it with the assurance that Adonis stands for the Earl of Southampton , whom he keeps calling Wriothesley . |
| 9 | He gives the same fierce concentration to the most trivial action . |
| 10 | ‘ He gives the whole defence confidence , ’ said Mr Ferguson . |
| 11 | He gave the traditional religious answer to the riddle , but he articulated it more clearly and convincingly than anybody had before . |
| 12 | He gave the following three talks . |
| 13 | By way of assistance he gave the following example : |
| 14 | He gave the following answer ( Hansard , column 666 ) : |
| 15 | There was a cousin Dilwyn from whom he became inseparable ( they even shared a pair of roller skates ) and to whom he gave the greatest tribute of affection by constantly getting him into trouble . |
| 16 | ‘ He gave the right advice to the industry and we followed that advice , ’ said Mr Henderson . |
| 17 | He gave the only gift in his power and , removing his eyes from Eochaid 's , dropped on one knee . |
| 18 | He gave the explicit coordinate transformation by which the line element ( 10.24 ) becomes , ( 10.26 ) where the coordinate t is not the same as that used elsewhere in this chapter , and ( 10.27 ) which clearly satisfies the necessary conditions . |
| 19 | He gave the 100 delegates an hour-long presentation on BNFL titled ‘ Making Sense of a Sensitive Issue ’ . |
| 20 | He gave the perfect Gallic shrug . |
| 21 | In return , he gave the clearest commitment yet that the government in Bonn would not permit any tampering with the Oder-Neisse line , the border between East Germany and Poland . |
| 22 | As leader of the party he gave the usual dinner for colleagues at the start of the session but he was happy to leave the rest of the social management of the party to Lady Londonderry . |
| 23 | Actually we did press him a bit and he gave the usual reasons . |
| 24 | Only the historic fact that he gave the Irish capital the first public performance of what would become the most popular of all oratorios . |
| 25 | He gave the correct formula for ozone ( 1861 ) . |
| 26 | He gave the official definition of a traveller , as in tinker or gipsy , as ’ a person of nomadic habit of life , irrespective of race or origin ’ . |
| 27 | Last night at Dundalk however he scored the most important win of his new career when he gave the Crumlin-trained La Greine a superb ride to win the old Sweet Afton Hunter Chase , now called the Tallanstown Chase . |
| 28 | The officer or warden should describe how he gave the necessary signal , e.g. ‘ I raised my right arm with the palm of my hand facing the defendant . |
| 29 | He gave the two armed men on the slaves ' camp orders not to leave their posts , as he did not want more hands taking advantage of the confusion to run away and join the maroons infesting Oualie nearby . |
| 30 | There was little apology in Luke 's voice or in the look he gave the other man , and Fred laughed . |