Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [verb] him the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We were in the lane after Sacco left , ’ said Nooty , ‘ and it was getting really cold and Dorcas said to take him the other side of the hedge and , well , it was me who said you can see rabbits in this field sometimes , and he said find a rabbit-hole . |
| 2 | Zen decided to give him the only answer he had been able to come up with . |
| 3 | Having saved him from almost certain death in the morning at the hands of the enemy , fate had collected him the same evening by a stray bullet fired in error by a Maltese Army recruit . |
| 4 | Paris had given him the intellectual edge and the authority to do this . |
| 5 | Perhaps Lou had told him the monstrous lie that I did n't love him any more ? |
| 6 | But New York had cost him the Democratic Party 's nomination . |
| 7 | What with him moping round like a wounded jelly just because Koo had given him the old Dear John , he was no damn use to anyone at all . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But Mr Norman Bell , who drives the No 8 United bus between Barnard Castle and Bishop Auckland , was called in to learn a survey had found him the friendliest bus driver in Britain . |
| 10 | His long experience of bird watching in the hills of Arran had taught him the best vantage points . |