Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] him [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | With my best caricature British accent I reduce him to a fit of stifled giggles . |
| 2 | For a moment she held him like a baby in her arms . |
| 3 | His old friends the overseers did him proud to the very last : in their generosity they provided him with a 14s. funeral . |
| 4 | ‘ As a pup he was always asleep , so one day we put him in a pair of pyjamas and started calling him PJ . |
| 5 | When he gave them his name they arrested him on a charge of rape . |
| 6 | ‘ Two days after I did the tattoo they found him on a street in Los Ilusiones . |
| 7 | On one occasion they locked him in a bedroom and he threw a wooden brick through the window and tore down the curtains . |
| 8 | On one occasion they locked him in a bedroom and he threw a wooden brick through a window and tore down the curtains . |
| 9 | Handing him a cigarette I left him with a final warning . |
| 10 | The prosecution claim she blasted him with a shotgun because he was having an affair . |
| 11 | The safe shelter he had found on the edge of the village could not have been more comfortable , for all that on awakening and having his first lightsome look it struck him as a mite strange . |
| 12 | This piece of information I gave him with a triumphant smile . |
| 13 | ‘ The first time I took him for a walk without a harness , he had a bit of a job to work that out as well . |
| 14 | And my real father — I mean my official , signed and sealed father — struck me the only time I met him as a grandiose old phoney . |
| 15 | ‘ I know you and Niall did n't exactly get off to a good start , but if it 's any consolation you caught him at a bad time . |
| 16 | This time they saw him as a public enemy . |