Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] him the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The right hon. and learned Gentleman nodded when I asked him the same question earlier , but he has not said how he will ensure fairness between schools and therefore , no discrimination against students with special needs .
2 God knows why — I made him the same way I made the rest of you — but there it is .
3 ‘ I 've known Francisco for years — I met him the first year I came here , when Monte Samana was brand new . ’
4 I told him the first thing he has to do is establish who she is and where she comes from . ’
5 And I told him the whole story of our voyage , and the danger we were now in .
6 I showed him the relevant page of my guide-book .
7 I saw him the other day and he said ah yo , have you , not leaking yet is it from that radiator ?
8 er goggle eyes at the Co-op , I saw him the other week
9 Clive practised his exercises diligently and , when I saw him the following week , he had mastered the breathing technique — although it still took a great deal of concentration on his part and was not something he did naturally .
10 I gave him the standard treatment and told him to come back immediately if he did n't get better . ’
11 I gave him the same answer I gave you . ’
12 The Sheriff asked me the same question and I gave him the same answer as I have you . ’
13 I gave him the bad news without preamble .
14 She tried not to imagine his sympathetic brown eyes looking into hers , and his disarming smile when she spoke to him , perhaps their hands touching as she passed him the local anaesthetic — This is no use ! she admonished herself , rubbing energetically at a stainless steel trolley .
15 ‘ Which way ? ’ he asked , when at last the engine spluttered into life , and she directed him the wrong way round so that they might overtake and confront the trio lurching towards Midnight Mass .
16 Ginny wondered how he would react if she told him the simple truth .
17 She told him the first chance she had , when they had had tea and he was eating his lonely meal in the parlour .
18 As soon as he got home , the telephone was ringing and she told him the same thing many times .
19 ‘ I reckon she told him the youngest boy was his worked on him that way .
20 Edouard ordered her a citron pressé , and then quietly listened as — slowly at first , then with gathering confidence — she told him the whole story .
21 She handed him the long cane , and flinched when he swished it through the air to produce a vicious , menacing whistle .
22 She handed him the woebegone bouquet , the bird 's head dangling , its coxcomb a broken-stemmed blossom ; he took it , bowed his head , and pinched the child 's cheek as he showed his teeth gritted in greedy affection , the expression that says to children , ‘ Aahah !
23 Alighting hesitantly , she cast anxious eyes around her , wondering just where her hotel was , as she paid him the exact amount on the meter , feeling strangely guilty as she refrained from adding a tip in accordance with the multi-lingual notice in the cab .
24 She showed him the tiny pile on the bed , and he nodded again .
25 She called him the former proprietor .
26 She offered him the half-smoked burnie but he batted it angrily from her fingers before heading back towards the concourse .
27 She sent him the sudden grin again and Caspar said , ‘ Oh dear me , what optimism , ’ but he said it quietly .
28 When she gave him the second half of S. Kettering 's rent , he put it in his pocket without counting it .
29 We paid him the other day .
30 ‘ He was up against international defenders and they paid him the ultimate compliment of having to trip him up half of the time .
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