Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] him the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bill Rear has captured the passing years on this line perfectly and his publishers are to be congratulated for allowing him the space in which to present his work . |
| 2 | And after a meeting of the club 's directors yesterday , Rovers vice-chairman Geoff Dunford revealed : ‘ We are very pleased with the job Malcolm is doing and we are considering giving him the job until the end of the season . ’ |
| 3 | The annual conference competition to win the George Wood Cup this year took the format of target shooting ( with tennis balls ) and the Welsh dexterity of earned him the honour of collecting the cup at the conference Installation Ceremony . |
| 4 | The gods saw no solution and were steadfast in denying him the solace of their lies . |
| 5 | Boutros Ghali 's fluency in French , acquired as a student at the Sorbonne in Paris , was decisive in winning him the support of France which had reportedly threatened to veto a non-French-speaking candidate . |
| 6 | And without giving him the satisfaction of knowing how deeply he had hurt her . |
| 7 | If a student has a habit of over-ruddering in turns , it is often worth showing him the effect on the stall of using even a slight amount of extra rudder in a gentle turn . |
| 8 | Louis and his great men deliberated , and decided : at the summer assembly in July , the Ordinatio Imperii accommodated Lothar 's ambitions by giving him the title of co-emperor forthwith and promising him the whole of Francia on his father 's demise . |
| 9 | Anthemius intended to acknowledge his achievements by giving him the title of patricius , but the emperor was himself killed by Gundobad . |
| 10 | The editor of the Church of England Newspaper remarked that the overzealousness of Ramsey 's friends did him a disservice by making him the representative of an intolerant school of thought and by inflating his reputation beyond what his record would endorse . |
| 11 | Britain bought him off by offering him the sovereignty of this area , ‘ Transjordan ’ . |
| 12 | The feoffees for impropriations came to his rescue by offering him the vicarage of All Saints ' , Hertford ( where the millenarian Christopher Feake , q.v. , was later to serve ) . |