Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [verb] him the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I 'll need some support if I am to give him the service he wants . |
| 2 | ‘ I am giving him the chance to be his own publisher , ’ said Mr Maxwell . |
| 3 | Well , it 's funny , I was telling Stephen , my boyfriend , about that , and I was telling him the question and he said |
| 4 | What 's the doubt that you 're giving him the benefit of ? |
| 5 | you this turtle as an incentive cos you 're giving him the turtle anyway but he wo n't know that unless his mum 's told him . |
| 6 | But how would he react if she were to tell him the truth ? she wondered distantly . |
| 7 | She was offering him the deputy to Hitler , through an intermediary who was a friend of George Vl and Winston Churchill . |
| 8 | Again she was giving him the opportunity to ask her to lengthen the period — or to indicate in some way that he had no wish for her to leave . |
| 9 | Hoping against hope that she was giving him the come-on at last , he readily accepted . |
| 10 | Desperate Ricky should n't think she was giving him the come-on , she had the door open before the car stopped . |
| 11 | Manager Bryan Hamilton , who offered the 21-year-old Londoner the opportunity , said : ‘ He is looking for a change of direction while his athletics career is on hold and we are giving him the chance to prove his worth as a footballer . ’ |
| 12 | Their parents are called away and they are left him the care of servants . |
| 13 | The welcome is of the warmest ; and tonight they are showing him the MRA film ‘ Freedom ’ , made in Nigeria . |
| 14 | Now , they 're calling him the heir to Britain 's tennis crown . |
| 15 | But Lothar then extracted a further concession , " since he would not have , he said , in the share [ of the regnum ] they were offering him the wherewithal to make good to his own supporters that which they had lost . |
| 16 | And all the while , while he was handing him the plate of meat and bread , and while he was holding the cup to the trembling lips , a little silvery voice was beating inside Fergus 's head : this is all wrong . |