Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [verb] him a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The printer had become sufficiently reconciled to their presence to give him a friendly wave . |
| 2 | I will give you a quick tour from the air , ’ he added just as she opened her mouth to give him a caustic reply . |
| 3 | Riled by the peremptory note of command in his voice , Rory opened her mouth to give him a scathing reply , but just in time caught the sideways glance slid her way by Candy and bit her tongue . |
| 4 | She opened her mouth to give him a blistering answer , then closed it abruptly . |
| 5 | He could see very little , but the sound of their laughter told him a whole group of workmen had crept up on him while he was hugging the yard wall , fearful of the big Great Dane . |
| 6 | Postwoman Val took Pat home , where her husband made him a Jamaican meal and Pat then went off to boogie to a steel band , like a rasta on ganja , exhibiting a sense of abandon never hinted at in Greendale . |
| 7 | That is why — ’ raising her head to give him a grateful look ‘ — I had none to spare for a meal at this place . ’ |
| 8 | Steeling herself , she tilted her chin to give him an aloof , autocratic stare . |
| 9 | The sudden movement brought him into the path of a mourner , whose elbow struck him a glancing blow and sent him reeling . |
| 10 | A demand from his bladder gave him a happy idea . |
| 11 | ‘ Bearing in mind that it will be Ian McGeechan 's last game as Scotland coach , it 's a perfect setting for Gavin and his side to give him a fitting send-off , ’ said Best , who will be taking a video of the Murrayfield game back with him and will spend this week poring over it , looking at both the performances of Scotland and potential Lions . |
| 12 | His sole gave him a peculiar sensation , realising that it was undone and dragging , made him laugh , in retort , but secretly , inside . |
| 13 | When he came to Arsenal , James told Chapman in no uncertain terms that he did n't like his plan to make him a scheming inside-forward . |
| 14 | Ironically , Johnson 's lawless image endeared as much as it repelled. he was obviously a player who was easily unhinged but in the odd chemistry of Scotland 's footballing psyche , his recklessness made him a dangerous but likeable rogue . |
| 15 | One wonderful story is that he decided against a career in mathematics when his teacher gave him a poor mark in an exam for answering a problem correctly but not using the method taught in class . |
| 16 | If a left-wing politician is genuinely anathematised it is not possible for his opponent to pay him a higher compliment . |
| 17 | Unlike the passages on Seyh Abdulkerim , Molla Abdulkerim or Molla Yegan , however , about all of whom Mustakimzade has some sort of reservation , this passage on Hizir Bey contains no reference to or any derivation of it ; and it would seem from his particular vagueness in relation to Hizir Bey and his failure to accord him a separate article that while he is aware of the claim that Hizir Bey became Mufti , he is unsure of his relationship to the main stream of Muftis and probably regards him as not having been part of it . |
| 18 | His record makes him an outstanding candidate for an R Y A Award . |
| 19 | His wife darted him an impatient look . |
| 20 | His wife gave him a long level look with no liking in it at all , and Penelope Huntley watched , fascinated . |
| 21 | The 24th grand prix win of his career gives him a commanding lead in the world championship . |
| 22 | By the time that man gets to Riga he will know his way around the town and every detail of his life from the day his father gave him a light-brown teddy-bear , to the movie show he watched last night . |
| 23 | Last year his father gave him a new car — a very fast car . |
| 24 | His father gave him a white convertible Mercedes 300 for his eighteenth birthday . |
| 25 | His claim gave him a useful propaganda weapon , some bargaining power in negotiations , and a basis on which to appeal to discontented French vassals ; it was also a convenient argument with which to counter Philip 's confiscation of Aquitaine . |
| 26 | His silken touch , his ability to play off either foot , and his pace make him an obvious crowd-pleaser . |
| 27 | His employer gave him a glowing reference and spoke about him to a friend by the name of Sir Algernon Clark , a fellow businessman who was having problems with insurance brokers over the size of the premium for insuring his wharf and its most valuable contents . |
| 28 | There are many reminiscences of the two men together at Carlyle Mansions — Hayward talkative and Eliot silent , Hayward persuading Eliot to quote from memory long passages from the Sherlock Holmes stories ( there was an element of putting his famous companion " on show " in such circumstances , although his disease allowed him a certain immunity from conventional social niceties ) , Eliot on occasions reciting his poetry with " an actor 's pleasure " I Eliot standing behind Hayward 's wheelchair at literary parties — almost at attention , as one observer noticed . |
| 29 | Balham-born Akram , who is studying for his A-levels , got the stage bug at the age of three when his mother taught him a few classical Indian dance steps . |
| 30 | At his christening his mother gave him a second forename , ‘ Arthur ’ , which he did not like and never used . |