Example sentences of "[to-vb] him the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lothlórien has won many hearts , and even the most censorious of Tolkien 's critics have accordingly been ready to grant him the ability to create nice settings . |
| 2 | Charles II managed to induce the Barbados assembly to grant him the revenue forever from a tax of 4½ per cent of the value of all sugar exported from the island , and the Leeward Islands settled on the same terms and were briefly united under the same governor as Barbados . |
| 3 | Edward undertook to place a force of 600 men at the duke 's disposal and to grant him the earldom of Richmond , to which his family had an ancient claim and which John of Gaunt relinquished for the purpose . |
| 4 | A peek through the window showed that the taxi had arrived , brief farewells were made to the men , and Karl left , promising to ring them the next day and making mock threats to Erika and Paul should they forget to meet him the following Sunday . |
| 5 | He instructed me to meet him the next day at the Turkman Gate , soon after dawn . |
| 6 | They moved on after that , with Jessica dropping in bits about Parr as they occurred to her — although not that she was due to meet him the next day . |
| 7 | You 'll have to take a good swim to find him the night , over to Holland , I 'd say . |
| 8 | In the circumstances the degree of kinship was sufficiently close to secure him the support he required . |
| 9 | But a boardroom vote of six to one in favour was not enough to secure him the position . |
| 10 | Even if the opponent plays him false twenty times , the Satyagrahi is ready to trust him the twenty-first time , for an implicit trust in human nature is the very essence of the creed . |
| 11 | A note from Bartram in 1745 seems to imply a slight difference of opinion as his account of some American pines had been questioned : ‘ But as I have great opinion of Miller 's learning and judgement , I am engaged in duty and friendship to inform him the best I can . ’ |
| 12 | Has the company appeared to escort him the rest of the way ? |
| 13 | Surtees was a good choice , but I never got to know him the way I did Graham Hill , Jackie Stewart and Pedro Rodriguez . |
| 14 | The Leasehold Reform Act 1967 for the first time introduces leasehold enfranchisement , whereby a lessee is entitled to compel his lessor to sell him the freehold upon payment of compensation on a scale fixed by the Act . |
| 15 | The photographer offered to sell him the negatives for £30 at the time but he did n't have the money . |
| 16 | In our example , if B has induced A to sell him the goods by making a misrepresentation , then B will acquire only a voidable title . |
| 17 | How on earth had Gesner persuaded the Volksoper to sell him the costumes ? |
| 18 | If you want to talk him the number 's o-five-hundred , four-o-four , treble zero . |
| 19 | ‘ My master will take it as a sign , a beacon to lead him the way you wish . ’ |
| 20 | Apparently , the guru had played little part in the proceedings , confining himself to putting records on the gramophone ; and this , for Eliot , seemed to render him the more sinister . |
| 21 | Loss of manuscripts or illustrations seem to cause him the greatest concern . |
| 22 | ALEX FERGUSON revealed yesterday how he tried to sign Mick Harford just before the transfer deadline to win him the title last season . |
| 23 | ALEX FERGUSON revealed yesterday how he tried to sign Mick Harford to win him the title last season . |
| 24 | Papers which fought to win him the election have , like so many of his back-benchers and supporters , turned against him . |
| 25 | Hands off : the splendid form of Dewi Morris ( left ) is likely to win him the nod as the second scrum-half in the British Lions ' squad , pushing Robert Jones out of the picture |
| 26 | John asked me to help him the following year as I often came to Stamford to see my mother . |
| 27 | ‘ Chris was hanging around in the pool room and we kept going out to play him the mixed songs on my ghetto-blaster . |
| 28 | Scott 's first letter had been an appalling error , and it would seem sufficient reason why Donaldson should suggest reversing the decision to award him the Gold Medal , but Scott , when drafting his Recollections in later years , looked for further motives behind Donaldson 's action as he could not ‘ reconcile it with the character and generosity which Donaldson has usually evinced ’ . |
| 29 | However , the organisers decided not to award him the individual trophy since he already had a team trophy and instead awarded the individual trophy to the person with the lowest score . |
| 30 | One thing America has done for Lemmy is to afford him the chance to fulfil an ambition … |