Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [verb] him [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During his lunch-hour I give him the last orange , a biro and three lollipops , all I can muster , and wish him a happy birthday . |
| 2 | During 1991 his position was undermined by a series of minor scandals concerning his use of government aircraft and cars for private business , a practice which earned him a public rebuke from Bush . |
| 3 | But Murphy did n't start and Nolan hit early trouble with his Sapphire Cosworth 4x4 suffering suspension damage which cost him a two-minute delay while repairs were carried out between stages . |
| 4 | In 1861 Crookes made the discovery which brought him the necessary eminence ; he identified the new element thallium . |
| 5 | Stan started to sell his fossil finds to the museum and with the money he earned he was able to buy tools and a microscope which gave him a further insight into the subject . |
| 6 | Back at her place she offered him a large whisky and then said that she just had to slip into the bedroom to see to a few things . |
| 7 | ‘ With his left hand he snatched the gun from the Pole 's hands , and with his right he gave him a violent blow to the ear . ’ |
| 8 | During the night I visited him every three hours as my vet had told me that if his leg had broken completely it would n't be fair to leave him suffering . |
| 9 | Er I felt , I 've been after Danny for nearly twelve months to come see and not been able to get him on the night I want him the only night he was able , was available was I think it was one night when we had something else on I ca n't remember what it was . |
| 10 | ‘ From tomorrow , Sarah , I should like you to wear your hair in the style in which it was dressed when you attended the service at the Foundling Hospital , ’ he said , forcing the smile which gave him a jovial reputation . |
| 11 | That heart is Welsh , and it is his Welshness which gave him an inner security that enabled him to come this far . |
| 12 | This was the bond which gave him a warm and interested reception . |
| 13 | It was his success in this role which made him an obvious choice for prime minister , an essentially ‘ managerial ’ post . |
| 14 | And what he found was a woman who understood him a great deal better than his wife ever did . ’ |
| 15 | Not only were many of his proposals radically altered by the Duma , but he encountered stiff opposition from the State Council and the Tsar himself gave him no more than lukewarm support . |
| 16 | And if Derry succeed , he will murmur a silent but heartfelt ‘ thank you ’ to Kevin Heffernan , the man who gave him a new outlook and sense of purpose in the sport which has made him both a local and national hero . |
| 17 | A lonely childhood , a youthful longing for adventure , made it easy enough for Dick to lay aside his devotion to an almost legendary father and to dedicate himself to the service of a man who gave him the emotional security and incentive he had lacked for so long . |
| 18 | At the garage where he bought petrol they offered him a complimentary sherry glass because he had bought more than thirty litres . |
| 19 | But he would concede nothing , and in the end I gave him a dry little bow and thanked him for the tea . |
| 20 | Yet Politics among Nations is the book which made him a major figure in the discipline and its message is as we have described it . |
| 21 | In this box she showed him a long thick green book , a little like an accounts book , with sombre marbled endpapers : |
| 22 | It sounds to me with me being they got him the first the the their victims . |
| 23 | After all , the chairman of a transport conglomerate which had tipped hundreds of thousands into party funds would not thank a prime minister who gave him the same reward as a Blackpool entertainer . |
| 24 | And this way he gets him a good life . |
| 25 | Each time I sent him a rewritten chapter , he sent back a long list of objections and questions he wanted me to clarify . |