Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] him the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sandison told him the whole story , the one he had told to Mrs Wilson : that he was Elsie 's brother , that he was convinced she was still alive even though she had disappeared so many years before . |
| 2 | Wickham gave him the withering look of a man whose junior reads too many detective stories . |
| 3 | It was such a desultory question that Ruth gave him the filthiest look she could muster . |
| 4 | Azharuddin gave him the three-fours-in-an-over treatment , driving all three off the back foot . |
| 5 | It was said that Gertrude gave him the final result . |
| 6 | After all , days before the invasion surprised President Bush , his ambassador , presumably not speaking just for herself , told Saddam in so many words that Washington gave him the green light on Kuwait . |
| 7 | He was created baronet in 1837 , but Sir Robert Peel refused him the Irish peerage promised him by Melbourne . |
| 8 | Endill told him the quickest way out of the school . |
| 9 | He eventually came to Madeira where Zarco gave him the large area of fertile land around Madalena do Mar . |
| 10 | I was pleased to see his grin varnish when Mala gave him the vicious edge of her tongue for ignoring the Ardakkean request for discretion , causing the FedPol squad to visit Vadinamia . |
| 11 | Jessamyn handed him the still-smoking gun . |
| 12 | He had gained a sense of humour , or perhaps of irony , since Blanche questioned him the first time . |
| 13 | Match referee Deryck Murray confiscated the match ball after umpires John Hampshire and Ken Palmer showed him the scarred leather . |
| 14 | On the occasion of its 30th anniversary , the University of Novi Sad in Yugoslavia awarded him the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science ; and this month at the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science he is to receive an Honorary DSc from the University of Wales . |
| 15 | He flitted about on this machine ( which obsessed him ) wearing a helmet and goggles so that Gabriel called him The Invisible Man . |
| 16 | ‘ My sister Mary gave him the stable name ‘ Arthur ’ . |
| 17 | Ezekiel was bold enough to long for this too , and God gave him the marvellous vision of the valley of the dry bones ( chapter 37 ) as an assurance that the longed-for day would indeed come . |
| 18 | As soon as the railway station at Carno was theirs , Bernard wrote to Dai offering him the promised job . |
| 19 | ‘ I almost had the creature last night , ’ Mr Crangle told him the next day . |
| 20 | When Father came home that day , Peter told him the sad story about his engine , and Father looked at it very carefully . |
| 21 | Yet when Cornwall pronounces him the new Earl of Gloucester , and orders him to seek his father out , Edmund has yet another layer of pretence at hand : Edmund 's perversion of such words as ‘ nature ’ , ‘ loyalty ’ , and ‘ blood ’ is grimly evident to us , but not to Cornwall — who may not understand those terms , in any case — and who now puts himself into the position of an adopted father to Edmund : ‘ I will lay trust upon thee ; and thou shalt find a dearer father in my love ’ ( 24f . ) . |
| 22 | He is the vital element , a striker with so much potential that , if Graham Taylor gives him the same encouragement he has received at Highbury , he will become Gary Lineker Mark II — only better . |
| 23 | Admittedly the absence of Brian Reid gave him the 250 at Carrowdore and then Derek Young 's injury at Kirkistown handed him the Open Road Racing Ireland award , but he has certainly had a year to remember and his performances in the 600cc series have all been high class . |
| 24 | His time at Newcastle gave him the unique opportunity to take the building society into Europe when it became the first UK society to offer a full range of services on the mainland of Europe on opening a branch in Gibraltar in 1990 . |
| 25 | Gina gave him the unstinted praise he deserved . |
| 26 | Barcelona gave him the perfect chance to retaliate . |
| 27 | The legendary Enzo Ferrari rates him the best driver ever , and coming from the man with Ferrari 's wealth of experience and knowledge , he must be right . |
| 28 | First , we should understand that the political hacks were peeved when he won the overwhelming support of his colleagues to represent them on Labour 's shadow cabinet and they were really gutted when John Smith gave him the Scottish Office to shadow . |