Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [to-vb] him [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to give him a withering look . |
| 2 | I I 'm very grateful to the minister but I want to ask him a straightforward question . |
| 3 | I want to make him an excellent offer for Sleet , one impossible to refuse . |
| 4 | Corky 's taking an age typing them all in — even slower since I threatened to give him a good lashing ! |
| 5 | By this time Desmond had nearly stopped on the flarepath and I decided to give him a wide berth . |
| 6 | So anyway , I er , I decided to give him a second chance , so I explained calmly , and with grim patience , |
| 7 | I had to give him a bloody week ! |
| 8 | Sometimes he grunted at me as if trying to get me to say something , but always I had to give him the same classroom answer : ‘ Ich verstehe nicht . ’ |
| 9 | I intended to give him a further lesson on the facts of life , later . |
| 10 | " I wanted to give him a nice gravestone , " she said . |
| 11 | But Bodie softened his voice , teased Liz mercilessly , until she agreed to meet him a few minutes later , to be taken to Linda Stone 's school . |
| 12 | If she tried to evict him an undignified struggle would only ensue and she would n't give him the satisfaction . |
| 13 | Enraged by his presumption , she longed to land him a good smack on the face , famous actor or no famous actor , but he had her arms pinned to her sides , and his strength was far greater than hers . |
| 14 | He took her hand , linking his long , hard fingers between hers , joining them in a physical as well as a mental bond , and suddenly Fran knew that she wanted to tell him the one thing that had fashioned her into the woman she was . |
| 15 | Willie ‘ O ’ is a bit stronger and a lot younger than Mick so you have to give him a slight edge when it comes to form and fitness . |
| 16 | But this did n't stick , and because his style was as I have said to always sit and wait , and never to make the first move , we began to call him The Older Man ; and then this became just Older , and finally just O. |
| 17 | A peek through the window showed that the taxi had arrived , brief farewells were made to the men , and Karl left , promising to ring them the next day and making mock threats to Erika and Paul should they forget to meet him the following Sunday . |
| 18 | It is an amazing turnaround as , back in 1986 , Arsenal let the young Keown go when contract talks failed after they refused to pay him a mere £50-a-week more . |