Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] him the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is well liked and sticks to his brief come what may — a tactic that has rightly earned him the nickname of the ’ Bardic steamroller ’ . |
| 2 | And it 's that devotion that 's just won him the title of Britains most romantic top tycoon . |
| 3 | His name has already made him the butt of many jokes . |
| 4 | Thus when the postmistress asks him if he has come from Mars , he answers ‘ yes ’ because she has just told him the story of Merlin that is a local myth . |
| 5 | Others , like Hayling , obviously had talent , but none of them had even a fraction of the experience or ability which had twice earned him the Journalist of the Year award for his coverage of Vietnam and Cambodia . |