Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [vb past] him the [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It contained four sheets of paper closely covered in unfamiliar handwriting , and it was a measure of how relaxed he was that it took him the best part of a minute to realise that he was holding a copy of the letter written by Ruggerio Miletti to his family three days previously . |
| 2 | And I told him the whole story of our voyage , and the danger we were now in . |
| 3 | The Sheriff asked me the same question and I gave him the same answer as I have you . ’ |
| 4 | As soon as he got home , the telephone was ringing and she told him the same thing many times . |
| 5 | ‘ Which way ? ’ he asked , when at last the engine spluttered into life , and she directed him the wrong way round so that they might overtake and confront the trio lurching towards Midnight Mass . |
| 6 | Ginny wondered how he would react if she told him the simple truth . |
| 7 | ‘ He was up against international defenders and they paid him the ultimate compliment of having to trip him up half of the time . |
| 8 | And they gave him the rowdiest send-off of the campaign . |
| 9 | And it gave him the halfway lead of 132 , 12 under par . |
| 10 | He could hit it as far as a 3-wood — and it won him the 1973 Open . |
| 11 | But I told him the best publishers to try — the pink-ohs , you know . |
| 12 | But they called him the un-canny Scot . |
| 13 | If he could relive that shot I 'm sure he 'd never take a driver there off the tee ( Azinger has said just that in print ) because it lost him the Open . |
| 14 | Clive practised his exercises diligently and , when I saw him the following week , he had mastered the breathing technique — although it still took a great deal of concentration on his part and was not something he did naturally . |
| 15 | The right hon. and learned Gentleman nodded when I asked him the same question earlier , but he has not said how he will ensure fairness between schools and therefore , no discrimination against students with special needs . |
| 16 | When she gave him the second half of S. Kettering 's rent , he put it in his pocket without counting it . |
| 17 | She tried not to imagine his sympathetic brown eyes looking into hers , and his disarming smile when she spoke to him , perhaps their hands touching as she passed him the local anaesthetic — This is no use ! she admonished herself , rubbing energetically at a stainless steel trolley . |
| 18 | That was what he meant to Mrs Sairellen Thackray as she served him the first of her good dinners of boiled beef and potatoes and onions towards which the town 's Chartists had all made their contributions . |
| 19 | Alighting hesitantly , she cast anxious eyes around her , wondering just where her hotel was , as she paid him the exact amount on the meter , feeling strangely guilty as she refrained from adding a tip in accordance with the multi-lingual notice in the cab . |
| 20 | FORMER Goon Harry Secombe , who has had a second home in Majorca for the past 15 years , reckoned he had finally been accepted by the locals when they gave him the Spanish name El Gordo . |