Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [prep] him the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I spoke to him the night before last , and he 's doing fine . |
| 2 | Course , this morning yesterday while he was at home , I said to him the bathroom radiator 's just not quite warm enough Pete can you adjust it ? |
| 3 | Jones had then worked closely with the docks employer , Lord Aldington , in getting a new wages agreement for the docks including a settlement for the problem of casual labour which drew on him the fire of many militant shop stewards amongst the stevedores . |
| 4 | He could also make an error of judgement in his choice of sailors , at least one of whom turned on him the moment they were inside the door and threatened to beat him up if he did not hand over money . |
| 5 | Daughter of the Queen Igrayne and half-sister to King Arthur , she revealed to him the intrigue between Lancelot and Guinevere by giving him a magic draught which opened his eyes to the perfidy . |
| 6 | Adrift and in debt , Rolfe was taken in by the Duchess of Sforza-Cesarini , who conferred on him the title of Baron Corvo before he returned to England later in the year . |
| 7 | Hippolytus composed a strange book entitled the Refutation arguing the dependence of a row of Gnostic sects upon a row of pagan philosophers , and finally turning his weapons on Callistus , who seemed to him the abomination of desolation sitting where he ought not . |
| 8 | Sarah was a beautiful , sensual woman and she aroused in him the kind of emotions he had always condemned as sinful in others . |
| 9 | She stumbled after him the length of the church portico , bumping against him when he came to a sudden stop . |
| 10 | And so when he talked to Polly now , and when she talked to him the way she did , it depressed him . |
| 11 | She felt sorry for him once more ; she felt for him the compassion of an older sister , and at that point she did something quite unpremeditated : as she kept on walking , she turned her head back towards him , smiled and lifted her right arm out in the air , easily , flowingly , as if she were tossing a brightly coloured ball . |
| 12 | We are told that the hermit was once sitting alone in his cell after dinner when there came to him the lady of the house … and many persons with her , and found him writing rapidly . |
| 13 | But they went from him the way they did in dreams . |
| 14 | She hoped it hid from him the blush that fired her cheeks . |
| 15 | John Lehmann had such confidence in Minton 's design sense that when he handed to him the typescript of Elizabeth David 's A Book of Mediterranean Food he gave him carte blanche to do as he liked with it . |
| 16 | When Nicholas McGegan took over from John Eliot Gardiner as Music Director of the Göttingen Handel Festival , he took with him the idea of recording all his performances on CD . |
| 17 | He brought with him the kind of gold medal form that helped Great Britain to Olympic glory in the Seoul sunshine . |
| 18 | Kabir said he brought with him the thirst for the infinite . |
| 19 | When he returned two or three minutes later , he brought with him the fragrance ( in Dickensian phrase ) of a fairy emerging from a wine vault , and hiccoughing . |
| 20 | He had before him the example of the barons of the kingdom who had taken the opportunity to extract from Henry far-reaching legal and financial concessions at the time of his coronation . |
| 21 | And worst of all he carried with him the sense that he had no right to life , no more than hundreds or thousands of others , starting with his family , who had not lived . |
| 22 | The opportunity was there : when he became prime minister after his mother 's assassination by Sikh extremists , he carried with him the goodwill and sympathy of both parliament and public . |
| 23 | He carried with him the minister of the Congregational Church , H. C. Carter , and in the back seat three ladies , Mrs Ramsey , and Mrs Carter , and a Danish friend of Mrs Carter . |
| 24 | Horror and death were his trade and , like an undertaker , he carried with him the contagion of his craft . |
| 25 | He left behind him the scene , still shockingly evident , of the destruction by the Israelis of the Osirak reactor , the flattened mound of concrete . |
| 26 | He left behind him the impression — but not as if he had ever meant to say it — that anyone who disagreed with him must really be rather stupid . |