Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] him the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A lifetime 's devotion to ants has made him the principal authority on the subject . |
| 2 | ‘ It amazes me he should now want to kill the goose that has laid him the golden egg . |
| 3 | David Lloyd clubs , all 7 of them — and more to come — are building their reputation on quality of service , something which has allowed him the entrepreneurial satisfaction of seeing his company expand , when others around him are failing , victims of all the British recession . |
| 4 | Adorno 's recognition of the radical potential of what he called jazz ( see , for example , Adorno 1976 : 33–4 ) could have given him the theoretical space for such an approach ( it certainly means he has no logical grounds for the theoretical closure he operates , only a self-fulfilling pessimism ) ; but he fails to follow his quest into places where he could have found what he sought , and , more damagingly , he excludes the possibility of any other mode of critique than that associated with alienated individualism . |
| 5 | In fact it has often been said that Halley 's reputation for atheism may have cost him the Savilian chair of astronomy in 1691–2 . |
| 6 | But they had all laughed and Meg , for the missing loaf , had punished him the usual way , locked-up thirsty in the room . |
| 7 | He disputed that Royan was at risk : he had given him the correct treatment and calm reassurance — which was the essence of his treatment . |
| 8 | Paris had given him the intellectual edge and the authority to do this . |
| 9 | He laughed softly , with pleasure , as if I had fed him the right cue . |
| 10 | On 29th January , 1855 , Aberdeen 's Government had been heavily defeated in the House of Commons on a censure motion criticizing its conduct of the Crimean War , but it was not until 6th February that Queen Victoria brought herself to appoint the seventy-one-year-old Palmerston as Aberdeen 's successor , although his prestige and popularity had made him the inevitable choice as Prime Minister . |
| 11 | Perhaps Lou had told him the monstrous lie that I did n't love him any more ? |
| 12 | Yesterday Mr Hall said he was dissatisfied with the service he had received from Reg Vardy 's at Houghton-Le-Spring who had sold him the luxury car . |
| 13 | But New York had cost him the Democratic Party 's nomination . |
| 14 | The larger-than-life character is becoming well-known on the streets of Iasi youngsters in the town have dubbed him The Black Horse and even taken to copying his distinctive hairstyle : slicked back with a pony-tail . |