Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] [verb] him a " in BNC.
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| 1 | he has two sons and two daughters , one of whom has recently made him a grandad and , although he confesses to still having the odd game of cricket , his main pastime nowadays is deep-sea fishing . |
| 2 | I do n't mind saying I do n't blame him a bit ! |
| 3 | The only reason I do n't call him a c*** is the commitment he showed to Leeds for eight years , through good times and bad . |
| 4 | If I did n't give him a square meal on Monaghan Day he 'd drink himself stupid in Mohill . ’ |
| 5 | A month ago I did n't give him a dog 's chance , but a funny thing seems to have happened on the way to X-ray . ’ |
| 6 | I did n't give him a chance to say anything , just said I was coming to his place right that minute , and then I put the phone down . ’ |
| 7 | " I mean , I did n't call him a black bastard or anything ? " |
| 8 | I had already sent him a book , examples of my work , a letter about why and how I was doing the book , all for the sake of just one short interview . |
| 9 | I 've just bought him a shoulder of lamb , a breast of lamb , well he |
| 10 | Yes , but I 've , I 've only given him a lump figure you see . |
| 11 | I 've only known him a few weeks , after all . ’ |
| 12 | Er , I have n't sent him a letter back yet cos I thought , wondered whether anybody 'd like to volunteer to write , I sent a card last year . |
| 13 | I have n't given him a thought for years … ’ |
| 14 | She fought hard to get him a part-time playgroup place in the group his older brother attended . |
| 15 | Perhaps you 'd better give him a pop over hurdles tomorrow . ’ |
| 16 | when he gets , when daddy comes home you 'd better give him a big cuddle and ask him |
| 17 | She 'd only met him a few times , but it had been easy for Julie to see that Ross Wyndham was even more Leo-like than his wife . |
| 18 | She 'd only known him a few hours yet every cell of her body seemed sensitised to his presence . |
| 19 | Of all the people in the world to expose her seething mass of fears and insecurities to , Guy Sterne would have been her last choice … yet she 'd told him about Mortimer , she 'd carelessly made him a gift of her virginity , she 'd wildly announced she loved him , and now she was baring her soul over the painful anguish of her mother 's death … |
| 20 | She turned slowly to give him a long , searching look and decided he must have become expert at keeping his emotions on a tight rein . |
| 21 | She decided not to offer him a gin and tonic before his performance . |
| 22 | Davide caught his start when she leant over to give him a clean plate , how he set his chair straight and then , after a falter , flowed on , hammering the air with his clenched hands as he made his points , as if determined not to notice her . |
| 23 | Even Americans round the table , who did n't give him a snowball in hell 's chance of getting approval to his plan , had to admit that he was still in there , fighting like a demon for a lost cause . |
| 24 | It seems that it is not clarification of definition , tell that to the woman who looked for two , thirteen years after a stroke husband and they had to wait for his death , that you did n't sell him a dread disease policy because there is not clarification of definition . |
| 25 | Bet you do n't wake him a lot ! |
| 26 | If you do n't give him a yardstick , you get this . |
| 27 | But Mrs Gandhi never forgave Khan 's opposition to her scrapping the privy purses , and to his regret she did not make him a minister . |
| 28 | After all , she had signed Sting in the first place ( she had even given him a list of music-business lawyers to consult at the time , but he had used the Newcastle lawyer because he was cheaper ) . |
| 29 | She had even bought him a hunting dog as a present , a sleek , golden , sweet-tempered animal from which he at once became inseparable . |
| 30 | The answer came suddenly , a slap in the face that made her wince : because , on the only occasion when Merrill had actually confronted him with her suspicions — had brought them right out into the open — she had n't given him a chance to explain . |