Example sentences of "[vb infin] him [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still , the trip might buy him credit with the boss , unless he thought Cormack was a sycophantic idiot offering to take the things in the first place , which was equally likely . |
| 2 | Shearer 's £3.6 million move to Blackburn does n't guarantee him success . |
| 3 | Mind you I think he does well I do n't know him boy lives near me . |
| 4 | He is hoping a local farm owner will rent him space to run a boarding kennels and rescue side by side — one supporting the other . |
| 5 | That 's what they should at least beat him boy . |
| 6 | No court can or should give him direction on such a matter . |
| 7 | No court can or should give him direction upon such a matter . |
| 8 | If I did n't want it he would say that he was keeping me and the least I could do was give him sex . |
| 9 | He 'll go in for about four months , they 'll give him shock treatment and all that , but as soon as he comes out he starts drinking again . |
| 10 | But his mother did not give him permission to work . |
| 11 | But why not give him credit for a simple human weakness ; the attraction of eating a good dinner which he has n't had to cook ? ’ |
| 12 | I was gon na give him cheque book and then I thought , no . |
| 13 | ‘ It 'll give him heart see ? |
| 14 | One day one of the German officers stationed in Fontanellato , an Oberleutnant Bauer , called on me and asked if I could give him Italian lessons . |
| 15 | He needed success , a clean slate , because that would give him freedom to do much as he chose ; and that freedom was everything in life to Wallace Ellwood . |
| 16 | Sometimes she would give him money on the sly and he would help her with chores . |
| 17 | If he was begging , he seemed hardly to expect that anyone would give him money for making such a noise . |
| 18 | He had spent in promoting the scheme money that could have been used in establishing it , and I was both impatient and critical of his capacity to launch and support a large new artistic organisation , particularly as his ideas of who would give him money were hopelessly unrealistic . |
| 19 | How would I give him money ? |
| 20 | This would enable us to work Skipper without him sweating up , but would still give him protection on his back and loins . |
| 21 | I would give him English lessons . |
| 22 | He felt safer , despite the darkness , the white , snow-covered common and brittle ice would give him warning of any assassin 's approach . |
| 23 | We must give him nourishment for it 's a very lowering , debilitating disease . |
| 24 | Syria , or rather Antiochus , pollutes the Temple of Jerusalem on the eve of a final war which will give him victory over Egypt , but which will soon be followed by the deliverance of the Jews and by the Last Judgement : " And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake , some to everlasting life and some to reproaches and everlasting abhorrence " ( 12.2 ) . |
| 25 | This would give him control of editorial policy . |
| 26 | Except it might give him security . |
| 27 | The remark was enough to tell her that he had kissed her brow , and that he was firmly hauling himself back into the anti-female attitude which would give him security from involvement with a woman . |
| 28 | She can give him chapter and verse on Finance Acts and other current legislation , and is rigorous in keeping up to date . |
| 29 | And being organized did not give him pleasure . |
| 30 | Well , I wo n't say but that was fair enough , a pity he has not the key he needs to read it , it would give him pleasure . |