Example sentences of "[verb] him a [noun sg] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Competition could be fierce , as a young Dundee officer discovered when even the influence of the powerful David Scott failed to secure him a place for the voyage of 1801 because |
| 2 | Gabriel knocked at the door and asked if they could give him a bed for the night and a bite to eat . |
| 3 | I says , and I 'm buying him a rack for the ones not in a box . |
| 4 | Here Revelstoke was in his element ; acute intelligence and charm , capacity for meticulous work , presence and eloquence , fluency in French and Spanish , and , above all , financial acumen made him a match for the wiliest of South American presidents , North American railway barons , European finance ministers , and the members of the British cabinet with all of whom he had to deal at one time or another . |
| 5 | He accepted that his return made him a target for the IRA . |
| 6 | This simply goes along with his being the archetypal great detective , and even with Dostoevsky making him a vehicle for the airing of central thematic issues . |
| 7 | ( He should have won a Nobel Prize for general relativity , but the idea that space and time were curved was still regarded as too speculative and controversial , so they gave him a prize for the photoelectric effect instead — ; not that it was not worth the prize on its own account . ) |
| 8 | I would n't want to be the one responsible for proclaiming him a cuckold for the world to laugh at . ’ |
| 9 | At 30 he had amassed enough knowledge of transcendental experience systems to make him a contender for the job of running what was regarded by many as one of Europe 's best Transcendental Operations Modules . |