Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [adv] [verb] him a " in BNC.

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1 Her sisters proved to be a hard act to follow while her brother , then at Maidwell Hall in Northamptonshire , was displaying the scholastic skills which later won him a place at Oxford University .
2 After the two pictures for Leone , Van Cleef stayed in Europe to make pale imitations of them and only returned to Hollywood in 1970 for El Condor which unwisely made him a sympathetic character .
3 NOW that Lennox Lewis has earned a world-title shot it 's interesting to see so many people who previously dubbed him a Canadian imposter jumping on the Brit-for-Champ bandwagon .
4 This time I simply wrote him a decent-sized cheque and told him not to worry about repaying it .
5 Certainly it can be concluded that the circumstances of Sisson 's early life fuelled his salutary hatreds and helped form the outsider 's perspective which now makes him a scourge of the age 's insidious orthodoxies .
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