Example sentences of "him a [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 It was , alas , only too derivative , but given its auteur 's antecedents everyone was prepared to give him a second chance .
2 But I could make no sort of impression upon him … when I visited him a second time , the fear of death was gone , and with it all solicitude about religion . ’
3 Chamoun then attempted to capitalise upon his victory by contemplating a change in the constitution that would allow him a second term as president .
4 The reality was that he could walk into any bar or restaurant anywhere in the world and no one would give him a second glance .
5 But he almost always gave the defendant a second chance , and sent him a second summons to appear the following week .
6 As a result , despite his good looks and affable personality , women scarcely gave him a second glance .
7 Should the wielder attack and fail to score a hit , he may immediately re-roll the attack again , giving him a second chance to hit .
8 Fearful of waking him a second time I waited .
9 Nowadays , she probably never even gave him a second thought .
10 People strolled past without giving him a second look — couples hand in hand , families with pushchairs , groups of friends looking for a good spot to picnic .
11 GUIL throws him a second coin . )
12 Two indeed were peers , one the Lord Belasyse with whom Willys again quarrelled fiercely , perhaps even sending him a second challenge .
13 At his christening his mother gave him a second forename , ‘ Arthur ’ , which he did not like and never used .
14 And now I 've lost him a second time , and this time for ever !
15 Graham felt oddly satisfied at seeing life go on around him like this ; he felt almost smug at walking past people and them not giving him a second glance , at least not now he 'd got rid of Slater .
16 If he appeared in that door now , probably none of the girls here would give him a second glance : it 's all long hair and round shoulders now , is n't it , like yesterday 's flowers .
17 His extraordinary eyes he veiled with lowered lids and humility , and only the satirical curve of his long lips , accentuated by those twin russet flames that forked upwards through his short black beard , caused the chamberlain who admitted him to look at him a second time .
18 People got in and out of the lifts and did n't give him a second glance .
19 There can be little doubt as to what in the way of topics and register the Host expects in the Monk 's Tale ; he concludes his observations on Melibee with : and continues with a description of the Monk that matches with the impression " Chaucer " claims to have of the Monk in the General Prologue , of a " " manly man " " , straining at the bounds of what is allowed to a monk ( and not dissimilar to the monk of the Shipman 's Tale ) : After nearly a hundred stanzas of the Monk 's tragedies , the Host is prepared to give him a second chance , as " Chaucer " had , but feels this time he has to be more specific as to what is wanted : But as soon as the Monk speaks we have the opportunity to see , firstly , that his reaction does not suggest he is flattered or pleased by the Host 's appraisal of him , and secondly that he sounds quite different from the bold and thrusting " man 's man " that " Chaucer " and the Host would make of him : Note how the Monk 's desire to offer literature that " " sowneth into honestee " " anticipates Chaucer the prosist 's retraction of the tales " " that sownen into synne " " .
20 Selim shook hands again and gave him a second look .
21 So , ‘ Goodnight , ’ she bade him a second time , her goodnight this time , however , sounding husky and hasty as she started to hurry back to her room .
22 I just ca n't see why the system gave him a second chance .
23 So anyway , I er , I decided to give him a second chance , so I explained calmly , and with grim patience ,
24 Charlie parted with a penny and was handed a bagful , but no one even gave him a second glance .
25 when I visit him a second time he did n't turn up at all
26 A few people were waiting and one of them called out angrily as Joe stepped in ahead of them all , but he gave him a one-second blast of his sub-zero gaze and said , ‘ Police business , ’ and then he turned his back and forgot the man completely .
27 Until yesterday , these would have seen Barnes deployed on one flank with Rocastle 's defensive awareness earning him a ninth cap at Waddle 's expense on the other .
28 At special stage 20 , the valiant 24-year-old Scot gunned his accelerator as the marshals gave him a five-second countdown .
29 Inevitably , writing for the Cornhill gave him a first experience of the restrictions imposed on authors by the readers of quality magazines , but for the time being he was happy to compromise in the interests of his career .
30 His early acquaintance with Pub ] ius Rutilius Rufus at the school of Panaetius must have given him a first taste of Roman optimates : later he had Pompey and Cicero among his admirers .
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