Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] him the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I told him the whole story of our voyage , and the danger we were now in . |
| 2 | I showed him the relevant page of my guide-book . |
| 3 | Yesterday I fed him the bony scraps from my reindeer stew and he is now mine for ever . |
| 4 | I loaned him the other $30 . |
| 5 | I saw him the other day and he said ah yo , have you , not leaking yet is it from that radiator ? |
| 6 | er goggle eyes at the Co-op , I saw him the other week |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I gave him the standard treatment and told him to come back immediately if he did n't get better . ’ |
| 9 | I gave him the bad news without preamble . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | Ginny wondered how he would react if she told him the simple truth . |
| 13 | Edouard ordered her a citron pressé , and then quietly listened as — slowly at first , then with gathering confidence — she told him the whole story . |
| 14 | She handed him the long cane , and flinched when he swished it through the air to produce a vicious , menacing whistle . |
| 15 | 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 ! |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | She showed him the long notes and the short notes . |
| 18 | She showed him the tiny pile on the bed , and he nodded again . |
| 19 | She offered him the half-smoked burnie but he batted it angrily from her fingers before heading back towards the concourse . |
| 20 | She sent him the sudden grin again and Caspar said , ‘ Oh dear me , what optimism , ’ but he said it quietly . |
| 21 | ‘ We paid him the other day . |
| 22 | ‘ He was up against international defenders and they paid him the ultimate compliment of having to trip him up half of the time . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | But they called him the un-canny Scot . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 ! |
| 27 | And it gave him the halfway lead of 132 , 12 under par . |