Example sentences of "he gave [pers pn] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She declined There was something else she needed from the van so he gave her the keys . |
| 2 | He gave her the courtesy of a single long attentive ear . |
| 3 | He gave her the name and address , and added , ‘ I 'd take him myself if I was free . ’ |
| 4 | He gave her the child to hold . |
| 5 | Ricky was so furious with Perdita for deliberately sabotaging her scholarship that he gave her the sack . |
| 6 | He helped her to make the house ready for the next occupant , and though she protested he gave her the money for her railway journey back to London . |
| 7 | He gave her the money then , and said it was part of his retainer for the season . ’ |
| 8 | He gave her the chance to enter into a light dalliance but she appeared totally unaware of his subtle overtures , wholly preoccupied in not spilling the beer over the gentleman . |
| 9 | He gave her the rake and she went vigorously at the hay while he plaited a grass rope to put round a burden and heft it down to the byre . |
| 10 | When by the third day her father had still not allowed Jessie out of her room , and Agnes confronted him , saying he could n't keep her incarcerated forever , and that if he did n't let her out then she was leaving , and that she meant it , he had gone along to his daughter 's room , taking with him a Bible , on which he made her swear that if he gave her the freedom of the house she would not attempt to leave it . |
| 11 | General Robert Schweitzer , who told this story to the congressional lawyers , was a trifle envious that after 58 years of daily Mass and ‘ desperate messages to the Almighty ’ he himself had never been woken up at night ‘ with lights on the wall ’ and a vision of saving Nicaragua ; he was not sure Ms Studeley had either , but he gave her the benefit of the doubt . |
| 12 | He gave her the bit of paper with the phone number on . |
| 13 | He gave her the number . |
| 14 | She went to see Mr Bailey , the manager of the factory , and she was surprised and happy when he gave her the job immediately . |
| 15 | He gave her the get-up , and she got into it . |
| 16 | And he gave her the kiss she was waiting for . |
| 17 | BASKETBALL star Magic Johnson is being sued by a woman who claims he gave her the Aids virus . |
| 18 | The American admitted sleeping with the woman , but denied he gave her the killer disease . |
| 19 | When they divorced he gave her the house in a clean break settlement and paid twenty pounds a week maintenanace . |
| 20 | I have looked after his books for forty years and that 's all I know , so he gave me the capital to start and here I am . ’ |
| 21 | He gave me the cheque . |
| 22 | ‘ He was very candid and he gave me the benefit of his thinking about a lot of things , ’ Clinton told reporters after leaving the White House . |
| 23 | He gave me the keys of the tower . |
| 24 | He gave me the answers . ’ |
| 25 | Then I nearly fell over when Hywel walked in because I met him on the mountain and he gave me the eye . ’ |
| 26 | But my Bible tells me he gave me the power to receive him and to become . |
| 27 | I do n't quite know why , but he gave me the impression , without uttering more than a few words , that he had much more than superficial knowledge , and an amusing touch of the sardonic as well . |
| 28 | Yes Jane it has , as luck would have it I was late arriving , had to run through the rain , ran into the main stand and by pure accident ran into the Oxford United dressing room and there was Brian Horton , he said ‘ Hallo Mick , hows the poster Mickey ’ as he always does , and in fact he gave me the team news and that is — Ian Walker makes his senior debut tonight with both Alan injured , also two other changes ; Jackson comes in for Gary Smart and one surprising one , Steve McLaren for Mark Steen . |
| 29 | When he and his brothers left this world , I could not go with him , but he gave me the gift of never growing old . |
| 30 | Tom could see this so he gave me the key to his hotel room and told me to have a shower and put on some of his clothes . |