Example sentences of "[noun] by [verb] him the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Louis and his great men deliberated , and decided : at the summer assembly in July , the Ordinatio Imperii accommodated Lothar 's ambitions by giving him the title of co-emperor forthwith and promising him the whole of Francia on his father 's demise . |
| 2 | The old king rewarded Sigmar by giving him the warhammer Ghal Maraz , or Skull Splitter , an ancient magic heirloom of Kurgan 's house . |
| 3 | The editor of the Church of England Newspaper remarked that the overzealousness of Ramsey 's friends did him a disservice by making him the representative of an intolerant school of thought and by inflating his reputation beyond what his record would endorse . |
| 4 | Anthemius intended to acknowledge his achievements by giving him the title of patricius , but the emperor was himself killed by Gundobad . |
| 5 | The feoffees for impropriations came to his rescue by offering him the vicarage of All Saints ' , Hertford ( where the millenarian Christopher Feake , q.v. , was later to serve ) . |
| 6 | However she was honest enough to feel that , as she had begun the courting by sending him the valentine , she ought not to refuse him now . |
| 7 | The last thing she wanted , now that she had gained a small advantage , was to blow that advantage by telling him the truth . |
| 8 | This was precisely the situation in which Charles and Elizabeth found themselves in 1772 ; and we may surmise that they did what brother John was to do later — in the absence of Thomas the Calvinist , who had died just over a year previously , they honoured Charles 's elder brother William by making him the godfather and giving the child his Christian name . |