Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] him [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 If she tried to evict him an undignified struggle would only ensue and she would n't give him the satisfaction .
2 Someone came to the shop and tried to sell him an old cross with paste stones in it .
3 I tried to give him a withering look .
4 Yes , oh Rocket , for the first few months I had him , after he was rescued , and he was so protective of me , because I 'd given him a good home and never , never hit him in the face .
5 Then , if she 'd given him a good time and he was a collaborator , he might not report her .
6 Though I wish you 'd given him a different name .
7 Cheered on by the huge German crowd , who 'd given him a two-minute standing ovation when his record was read out during the knock-up , Becker was devastating in the first set .
8 And Jimmy [ Jewel ] came to see him the other day and we walked across the road to the pub .
9 I felt as if I 'd handed him a loaded shotgun and said shoot . ’
10 Major Robert Burrows had cancer , but Eva 's arrival seemed to give him a new lease of life .
11 The failure of the pope to pronounce on this matter until 798 meant a dangerous delay for Coenwulf and was probably a factor in his desire for an archbishopric at London , but the papal judgement when it came gave him a free hand and made London as an archiepiscopal see dispensable .
12 No , she 'd left him a reassuring note .
13 Furiously she opened her bedroom door and , flicking the light on , went in , then turned to serve him a final volley before she slammed the door shut in his face .
14 Hesitating , she risked giving him a haunted look .
15 The fact that he had very little free consecutive time for his own writing began to worry him a great deal , and he missed the familiar life of Kensington , with its public house and local shops .
16 Corky 's taking an age typing them all in — even slower since I threatened to give him a good lashing !
17 From the Carlowitz peace negotiations with the Habsburgs in 1699 , successive grand viziers began to leave him a good deal of control over foreign affairs , though he again was also entrusted with a wide variety of other and quite different functions .
18 By this time Desmond had nearly stopped on the flarepath and I decided to give him a wide berth .
19 Zen decided to give him the only answer he had been able to come up with .
20 Conscious that he needed an heir , James now acquired a wife , having instructed the envoy sent to find him a suitable bride that she should not be ‘ too horrible ’ .
21 When Izzy Kleiber was punished for his treachery , they only meant to give him a cruel ducking and a bad fright ; no one had taken into account the heavy rains .
22 But she did give him a hefty shove and he nearly fell .
23 But they had all laughed and Meg , for the missing loaf , had punished him the usual way , locked-up thirsty in the room .
24 Certainly Eliot 's studies in Sanskrit and Pali at Harvard under Lanman and Woods had given him a thorough knowledge of Indian thought , but it is probable that Kipling 's version of metempsychosis had at least an equally important effect .
25 When Derek got the run they all cheered and a reporter commented that they had given him a great welcome , but could not possibly have known the significance of the run .
26 ‘ Are you out of your … ? his father stopped and looked in a startled manner at his mother , who had given him a sharp dig , then began to cough .
27 Likewise Jacob , his father , had given him a long robe with sleeves , for he ‘ loved Joseph more than any other of his children ’ ( Gen. 37:3 ) .
28 By September the Franco courts had given him a twenty-year prison sentence .
29 Her rifle butt had given him a nasty knock , but there would be no lasting damage .
30 They 'd had a good time , it had given him a good holiday , her too .
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