Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [vb past] him the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I unzipped the pouch round my waist and gave him the small jar of paint and the sawn-off paintbrush . |
| 2 | I gave McDunn the two names last night and told him the respective professions of their owners , then clammed up , just refused to say any more about them or about the body . |
| 3 | ‘ Then , before I could stop her she got my father out of bed and told him the whole thing . |
| 4 | Shepherd poured the T'ang a fingernail 's measure of the dark liquid and handed him the ancient bowled glass . |
| 5 | By now , though , he was tired of Barbados , particularly its narrowness of spirit ; they expressed their appreciation of his runs by refusing to allow him , as a black man , to practise at Kensington Oval , and he believed there were still those who resented his success and thought him the same ‘ bighead ’ as at school . |
| 6 | I refreshed his glass and told him the terrible truth . |