Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] have [verb] him the " in BNC.
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1 | The girl must have given him the elbow , Harriet decided . |
2 | His companion was a head shorter and he was thin ; but a reader of character would have stamped him the more evil of the two . |
3 | Hindsight says that if the Lotus mechanics had n't worked so hard and so efficiently and if Emerson had n't been able to race , Jackie Stewart 's two victories in the last grands prix of the season would have given him the championship . |
4 | In fact it has often been said that Halley 's reputation for atheism may have cost him the Savilian chair of astronomy in 1691–2 . |
5 | The small but select entry includes Carl 's Choice , several times a winner on this track , and Sneakapenny , whose last fence blunder at Garthorpe last weekend may have cost him the Men 's Open there . |
6 | She was gaping at him while telling herself that her mother would have told him the reason why she was here . |