Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [conj] [verb] him [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Royal Scottish Chief Executive Ian Offor wrote thanking him for his prompt action and sent him a Fortnum and Mason luxury hamper as a token of appreciation . |
| 2 | Hamish would take pity upon this sorry figure and give him the duffle-coat to keep himself warm . |
| 3 | He showed Mr Utterson the broken stick and told him the servant girl 's story . |
| 4 | I rumpled his dark curly hair but gave him a firm ‘ No ’ when he asked , ‘ If I play radio louder , me get better more quickly ? ’ |
| 5 | He also conducted extensive tests on his engines , which demonstrated their high efficiency and gained him a reputation as a highly scientific engineer . |
| 6 | Antonio fished in his back pocket and handed him a card . |
| 7 | And she put it before Gabriel on a wooden plate and gave him a wooden cup full of water . |
| 8 | In a world of single parents , almost all of them female , it is the relationship that the young man has with a solid male figure that gives him an edge and keeps him on the straight and narrow . |
| 9 | But World War I gave him the chance to stand on internationalist ground with an uncompromising fervour and personal courage that gave him a status denied to most of the others , whose work lay in the factories and in the shop stewards ' movement . |
| 10 | Will the Chancellor have a word with his Chief Secretary and tell him the facts of life , which are that the burden of taxation is much higher than it was in 1970 when the Labour party was in office ? |
| 11 | Shepherd poured the T'ang a fingernail 's measure of the dark liquid and handed him the ancient bowled glass . |
| 12 | ‘ At the time we were very short on quick bowling , and decided to take a real gamble and offer him a place on our staff . |
| 13 | In addition , the war years had turned de Gaulle himself into a national leader and given him a unique symbolic identity , and yet had left him an inexperienced politician without an organized or cohesive following . |
| 14 | The captain followed the direction of the American boy 's pointing finger for a moment , then lifted his left wrist and showed him the dial of his watch . |
| 15 | The Oxford public orator of 1960 commended him for all he had done in persuading Oxford undergraduates to a reasonable faith and called him a most penetrating interpreter of the New Testament and a very powerful bulwark of Mother Church . |
| 16 | When Batty comes back , why not preserve the current formation and make him the fifth defender , seeing as Speed seems to revel in the central midfield . |
| 17 | He forgets I can lean forward in this great chair and give him a good whack across the shoulders . |
| 18 | The council reinstated Tengiz Sigua ( who had resigned in August 1991 when Gamsakhurdia dismissed other senior ministers — see p. 38417 ) as acting Prime Minister and gave him the responsibility of forming a cabinet , which would assume power temporarily once the situation in the country had stabilized . |
| 19 | Knocker re-filled Sooty 's mug with rough cider and gave him a disapproving look at the same time . |
| 20 | I patted Armstrong 's stubbly radiator and promised him a good clean-out . |
| 21 | There have been many doubts that Gazza could n't make a come-back at club level or even contemplate straddling the international scene again with the outrageous talent that made him a folk hero . |
| 22 | Then I saw the spare figure of Captain Robins walking towards me , bag in hand : even on land after such a short voyage he had the kind of rolling gait that proclaimed him a man of the sea . |
| 23 | She talked to him for only a short while and left him a booklet with clear diagrams of the proposed surgery . |
| 24 | It was a glittering prospect and gave him the courage to brush his hand against Eloise 's breast as he kissed her goodbye . |
| 25 | A civilian came up to the mousy man and asked him a question . |
| 26 | cheeky so-and-so and to give him an audition and see what he was like — which I did — and was quite impressed . |
| 27 | He was confronted , in fact , by a farm labourer , who helped him into his small cottage and offered him a cup of tea . |
| 28 | I 'll have to wait until Bluebeard 's in a mellow mood and tell him the truth . |
| 29 | She took him to the far aisle and showed him the salt tablets . |
| 30 | She leaned out of her front bay-window and gave him a shout . |