Example sentences of "giving him the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His creator had fashioned him from clockwork and set him to go through the motions of living without giving him the actual breath of life . |
| 2 | ‘ Here , ’ said Mrs Wright , giving him the front door key . |
| 3 | ‘ Bowe has always said that I am the man he wants more than anybody and now that I am giving him the perfect opportunity , he is shying away from it . |
| 4 | The atmosphere in this dark room was oddly disquieting , giving him the distinct impression that he was not alone . |
| 5 | She stopped in front of him , leaning forward confidentially and giving him the full benefit of the satin décolletage . |
| 6 | ( 2 ) Provide the Chairman with a note for each item of business , giving him the previous history of the discussion and indicating not the decision but at least the possible decisions that might emerge from the current meeting . |
| 7 | So far I 'd managed to avoid giving him the exact address , but now he asked for it with a determined note in his voice — " Just in case I 'm down that way " and I was forced to invent one , praying that he 'd never check up on it . |
| 8 | His Quaker wife , the famous prison reformer Elizabeth Fry , felt members of her own family were also giving him the cold shoulder when they heard he was being ‘ investigated ’ by the Ratcliff and Barking monthly meeting . |
| 9 | By the middle of February , when the Shah had been in Morocco more than a month , it had become common gossip in the diplomatic corps that Hassan was giving him the cold shoulder . |
| 10 | I have another seven days before Jens 's cousin arrives from the States and finds his would-be protégé has been seduced into giving him the cold shoulder . ’ |