Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [to-vb] him [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been angered by her obvious , if unspoken , suspicion that he had persuaded the old lady to leave him the half share of the house . |
| 2 | He 's looking to all these outside things to make him a man , make him happy . |
| 3 | She was unsure now why she had decided to let him go on believing that , and she felt torn by a sudden desire to tell him the truth . |
| 4 | You 'll have to take a good swim to find him the night , over to Holland , I 'd say . |
| 5 | Mussolini , he reflected , was reputed to have made the trains run on time if nothing else , and he wondered if it might not be a good idea to offer him a job controlling Britain 's network . |
| 6 | If asked to ‘ zip me up ’ by a drysuit diver , why is it a good idea to offer him the loop of the closed zip afterwards ? |
| 7 | Kathleen Claar , custodian of the Last Indian Raid Museum in Oberlin , Kansas , took him to a small cemetery to show him the grave of her husband and of Rick Read , the last man lynched in the state . |
| 8 | Strangely then , at the thought of the heartless female he made her sound , Leith felt an almost overwhelming compulsion to tell him the truth . |
| 9 | Thus the time passes until three , when I go … to a Dutch officer to give him a lesson in galanterie and thoroughbass , for which I receive … four ducats for twelve lessons . |
| 10 | And then he had the blasted cheek to offer him a coffee , emphasizing his familiarity with the flat , his rights of ownership . |
| 11 | Perhaps he might use the ex-Prime Minister to give him a chuck on . |
| 12 | Toby was persuading a buxom young waitress to bring him a bottle of champagne from the supper room . |
| 13 | One night as he waited for a young man to find him a cab , I saw my chance . |
| 14 | Two uncles own a farm in Weston , North Oxfordshire and Mrs Kingdom tells me that the family have the necessary finance to offer him a job . |
| 15 | He had been in and out of love , but never found quite the right girl at quite the right time to make him a wife . |