Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [verb] him the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The silver pince-nez gave him the air of a rather unpleasant schoolmaster . |
| 2 | Being signed by Hampshire as replacement for Andy Roberts just a few months after his Test debut gave him the chance to impress Clive Lloyd in county matches and in 1982 he really came good with 134 wickets , the best season 's haul since the reduction in championship matches in 1969 . |
| 3 | ALEX FERGUSON revealed yesterday how he tried to sign Mick Harford just before the transfer deadline to win him the title last season . |
| 4 | This seems to have been an important period for Williams , for his lecture programme gave him the opportunity to broaden his contacts . |
| 5 | But can the verification principle give him the right to do this , when those who take a different view from him feel entitled to claim that they are abiding by that principle ? |
| 6 | Born Alfredo James Pacino he is still haunted by memories of growing up on the mean streets of New York 's South Bronx where his street gang pals called him The Actor . |
| 7 | When the head of the Commissioners , Sir Malcolm Trustram Eve , who was no man to be trifled with , arrived a few days after the Commissioners approved the expenditure , the butler Alexander showed him the restoration already complete . |
| 8 | The Army List told him the father was dead , the Registrar General that his wife was . |
| 9 | His card message system gave him the freedom to go out alone and hail a taxi , showing the driver the appropriate card for the place he wanted to visit . |
| 10 | The red-and-white skull-cap above the monkey eyes gave him the air of a performing chimpanzee . |
| 11 | The National Union of Mineworkers and the oil sheikhs denied him the title . |
| 12 | Then the understudy goes through agonies of indecision before the Company Manager gives him the order to get into costume and makeup . |
| 13 | The director of elections for SFWP , Gerry Doherty , told the Irish Times that a mining company representative told him the donation was made ‘ to help safeguard democracy and stop tyranny setting in ’ . |
| 14 | The faint glow from a street light showed him the outline of a hedge , neat flower beds , a black oblong of lawn . |