Example sentences of "[vb past] him the " in BNC.
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1 | His clever course management in the wake of continuous swing problems had made Olazabal a huge favourite with the Sun City galleries , many of whom rated him the superior of Seve Ballesteros , a two-time winner of the event . |
2 | In spite of the strangeness of Eliot 's behaviour , however , few people begrudged him the happiness which in personal relations he had never experienced before : " He obviously needed to have a happy marriage , " Valerie Eliot said on a later occasion , " He could n't die until he had had it " . |
3 | For bed a roadside ditch in the summer , a barn or hay-loft in the winter was all he sought , while for food and drink a farmer 's wife never begrudged him the plate of bread and potatoes washed down by a mug of tay . |
4 | Although Edward apparently promised him the captaincy of Berwick in September 1319 , during the English siege of the town , and grants continued to come his way during 1320 , his allegiance was soon to be severed by the ambitions of Despenser , whose attempts in 1320–1 to enlarge his share of the Gloucester inheritance in south Wales raised the whole march against him . |
5 | She drew him the length of her body , and he glided into her as she kissed his mouth . |
6 | Hoskyns found him the opening — sub-warden of Lincoln Theological College . |
7 | A search party found him the next day , dead from exposure . |
8 | When it found him the mouth opened in a roar of triumph , lips pulling apart behind the vizor to reveal huge yellow teeth . |
9 | I , I can remember all the activity and er when it was erected there was a fella from the First World War , he lost a leg in the war and he was in charge of the billiards room and the tables , when they built the club itself the front part used to be devoted to card games and then they installed a billiards hall and the tables and as I say a chap named he used to live in Street , but he was , a lost a leg during the war and they found him the job of looking after the tables and marking |
10 | He said Mrs Mawdsley 's husband phoned him the following evening to say she had seen her doctor and had been signed off for a month . |
11 | He had heard nothing more of the plane until a newspaper phoned him the following day , Sunday afternoon . |
12 | But he says to he phoned him the other day on my down this morning ha so just to say , you know , that was crime of the century ! |
13 | I took Sir Ralph to the top of the stairs into the North Bastion tower but the passageway was so narrow Colebrooke helped him the rest of the way . ’ |
14 | Last year Andres Gomez beat him the final ; this time it was Courier and everyone remembers things about him . |
15 | They dogged him the length and breadth of the country , wherever the small troupe of players appeared . |
16 | Sir Anthony Meyer 's self-destructive challenge to the leadership of Margaret Thatcher cost him the support of his constituency party early in 1990 , but , like Sir Ian Gilmour , he was merely symptomatic of a cast of mind common to many of the baronetcy . |
17 | He is still smarting after Tuesday 's controversial umpire call , which cost him the race against Kanza , Koch 's other boat . |
18 | It cost him the tournament . |
19 | Thanks to proper medical care , the infection was cured , but he needed a convalescence of four weeks under medical guidance , a time which cost him the part of Timmy Cleary that he craved . |
20 | It cost him the land he had so longed to enter . |
21 | His only regret yesterday was to fail from seven feet at the last , where his solitary bogey cost him the chance to stand alongside Payne , the 1992 Rookie of the Year , who had a best-of-the-day 66 . |
22 | Not long ago , a piece in the New York Times Magazine pronounced him the Ali of old , just about terminally perky . |
23 | My father overheard and , without consulting me or waiting to hear my reply , forbade him the house . |
24 | Terry Bickers was one of the people that answered , I played him the stuff , and he loved it , so … ’ |
25 | His father , foreman of the Headington Quarry morris ‘ side ’ for fifteen years , played him the morris tunes in the cradle , and later taught him the dances . |
26 | When they assured him the deposits were in order , he assumed it was a payment due from a former employer . |
27 | He held for Alice altogether a great fascination , but she steadfastly refused offers to go and see him in the nursery , and ignored him the few occasions he was on show . |
28 | I told him the history of the charts , my initial idea for a peephole of some sort . |
29 | ‘ Then , before I could stop her she got my father out of bed and told him the whole thing . |
30 | Erika told him the reason , expecting a sneering laugh , but the Lout was impressed . |