Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [verb] [prep] him a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I even bought a set of those flash cards with pictures and words such as Cat , Dog , Rabbit , Mummy and Daddy in my attempt to awake in him a hunger for knowledge . |
| 2 | Even her timidity seemed to him a sham . |
| 3 | As he set off to return to the dairy and Tess , his father rode with him a little way . |
| 4 | Soon after coming of age , his ‘ hard conscience ’ towards his tenantry drew on him a judicial rebuke from the lord chancellor Thomas Egerton , Baron Ellesmere [ q.v. ] , and he steadily enlarged his estate by buying out minor gentry families in the vicinity . |
| 5 | The letter in his hand aroused in him a sense of urgency that offset his fear of the narrow enclosed footpath known locally as Dead Man 's Alley . |