Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [verb] him the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Funnily enough , it was one of my nephews brought him the message — Josh 's eldest boy , Jimmy . |
| 2 | My dad gave him the sort of look that only someone declared clinically dead can manage . |
| 3 | ‘ When my mother left him the topaz , Vitor vowed he would save it until he met his soulmate , ’ the older woman explained . |
| 4 | Her trembling gave him the impression of her own passion being fuelled , which in its turn led him on to further , and deeper caresses . |
| 5 | Upset and infuriated by such cavalier treatment , made miserable and guilty by her failure to tell him the truth , she gritted her teeth and stayed still and mute , trying not to blink as the angry tears welled up . |
| 6 | Gratitude because of the unhesitating generosity with which Doreen gave him the hospitality of her body ; responsibility because he had ceased to be a passing visitor to that body , taking what he could get , and had become a guest , leaving behind something as a token of their intimacy . |
| 7 | ‘ Victor does a marvellous job in the loose for Bath because they are the strongest club side in England and therefore their pack give him the chance to run free . |
| 8 | Though her mother disliked him the custom of hospitality was too strict to allow any self-expression or unpleasantness . |
| 9 | All she had learned was that he was a man whose wife thought him the apple of her eye and who had tastes in Italian painting that were remarkably similar to her own . |
| 10 | Among a certain type he invited violence but was protected from this by the proximity of Ricky Stride whose physique gave him the appearance of a bodyguard . |
| 11 | His arrogance made him virile and masculine , his stubbornness gave him the character to administer his centuries-old responsibilities . |
| 12 | Paul Jordan from Kidlington in Oxfordshire was suffering the first pains of a heart attack , when his GP told him the agony was caused by a bad bed . |
| 13 | His goalkeeping won him the man of the match award . |
| 14 | In return his subjects owed him the duty of honouring that peace . |
| 15 | Finally he 'll decide to go and tinker with his terminal to tell him the tally to date . |
| 16 | When his ears tell him the truth , he will not listen . |
| 17 | It was his father gave him the idea . |
| 18 | He became recognised as one of the most accomplished half-backs in the Division and his displays won him the approval of the fans on many grounds besides our own . |
| 19 | His instinct told him the Englishman 's disappearance was the best chance . |
| 20 | The IR visor of his helmet showed him the desert as if by the light of an overcast day . |
| 21 | GRAHAM Finney does not mind that his hobby gives him the needle … for it helps him create textile masterpieces . |
| 22 | When he went home to his parents ' house in Ealing or to the Barbican , his grandmother drove him the mile and a half to Rickmansworth station , which is up on the northern end of the Metropolitan Line . |
| 23 | ‘ I sha n't wait till Adam returns , ’ Lewis said in that manner that had once led his daughter to call him the Frog Footman , |
| 24 | In 1857 his uncle secured him the post of personal assistant to ( Sir ) Edward Harland [ q.v. ] , the manager of Robert Hickson 's shipyard on Queen 's Island , Belfast . |
| 25 | Local gallery owner John Rux-Burton , 33 , claims his grandfather told him the secret of Shingle Street before his death in 1974 . |
| 26 | Mr. Pantry informed Mr. Small , for the defence , of the discrepancy between the 12 January statement and Matadial 's evidence about the telephone call after the shooting , but did not consider it his duty to show him the statement . |
| 27 | The Leasehold Reform Act 1967 for the first time introduces leasehold enfranchisement , whereby a lessee is entitled to compel his lessor to sell him the freehold upon payment of compensation on a scale fixed by the Act . |
| 28 | In fact , he was fishing on a fiord nearby at the precise moment when his detective brought him the news that Lord Mountbatten had been killed . |
| 29 | Blanche waited for his shaking to give him the momentum to carry on . |
| 30 | Then the butcher goes to the church to take leave of the priest , and as a token of his gratitude sells him the sheepskin at a knock-down price of two sous . |