Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] him the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In Bishopsgate there was a man lying on the ground and other people were giving him the kiss of life . ’ |
| 2 | Hoping against hope that she was giving him the come-on at last , he readily accepted . |
| 3 | And all the while , while he was handing him the plate of meat and bread , and while he was holding the cup to the trembling lips , a little silvery voice was beating inside Fergus 's head : this is all wrong . |
| 4 | The first day belonged very much to Gooch , who made a fine 153 that was to earn him the Man of the Match award . |
| 5 | Ace might not love her , and he was furious at having his hand forced by William Ash , but there was something she could maybe start to build on , and that was telling him the truth about her birth . |
| 6 | The impact of this work was to bring him the support of the social democrats and thus to extend the appeal of his Bonapartist message . |
| 7 | ‘ Very well , ’ she said after a moment 's thought , deciding that the only solution was to tell him the truth after all . |
| 8 | She was offering him the deputy to Hitler , through an intermediary who was a friend of George Vl and Winston Churchill . |