Example sentences of "[vb -s] him all " in BNC.
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| 1 | She tells him all and , one assumes from hints and a few quotations in her letters , he does the same to her . |
| 2 | A woman spends many years charring in Cremona ; she saves all her money to buy an apartment for her son when he gets married ; her no-good husband , the boy 's father , reappears after years and demands assistance ; she refuses ; when the son is engaged , she relents and negotiates subsidies to her ex-husband , for a suit , a car , a wedding-present ; she organizes a big reception to which she invites all her former employers ; nobody comes except a tennis-star ; there is no sign of the husband ; her lawyer tells her that the girl her son is marrying is her husband 's mistress and that he had already taken over the apartment ; she reflects a moment and decides to carry on with the reception , everything is all right , ‘ if no one notices anything , it is as though nothing has happened ’ ; passers-by are invited to join the wedding-party , which they happily do because the tennis-star is present ; the husband turns up in his new car ; no one takes any notice of him because no one knows who he is , except for the dealer he sometimes does jobs for , who tells him all new cars lose half their value as soon as they are bought and end up on the scrapheap anyway . |
| 3 | They tells him all the problems . |
| 4 | Gives him all those fish and potatoes . |
| 5 | A boy works for him and brings him all the food and things he needs . |
| 6 | God opens the images of nature , like the leaves of a book , before the eyes of his creature , Man — and teaches him all that is grand and beautiful in the foaming cataract , the glassy lake , and the floating mist . ’ |