Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [verb] him the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , it 's funny , I was telling Stephen , my boyfriend , about that , and I was telling him the question and he said |
| 2 | But how would he react if she were to tell him the truth ? she wondered distantly . |
| 3 | She was offering him the deputy to Hitler , through an intermediary who was a friend of George Vl and Winston Churchill . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Hoping against hope that she was giving him the come-on at last , he readily accepted . |
| 6 | Desperate Ricky should n't think she was giving him the come-on , she had the door open before the car stopped . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |