Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] him the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | They called him the One-Eyed Guest and Elisabeth recalled how , when she was young , the peasants never harvested a field without putting out a sheaf for Odin 's horse . |
| 32 | But they called him the un-canny Scot . |
| 33 | They offered him the highest position in the land , second only to that traitor , if he would forsake me ! |
| 34 | FORMER Goon Harry Secombe , who has had a second home in Majorca for the past 15 years , reckoned he had finally been accepted by the locals when they gave him the Spanish name El Gordo . |
| 35 | But he says to he phoned him the other day on my down this morning ha so just to say , you know , that was crime of the century ! |
| 36 | It contained four sheets of paper closely covered in unfamiliar handwriting , and it was a measure of how relaxed he was that it took him the best part of a minute to realise that he was holding a copy of the letter written by Ruggerio Miletti to his family three days previously . |
| 37 | And it gave him the halfway lead of 132 , 12 under par . |