Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [vb past] him the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Mary was out so I gave him the letter and began to tell him about the trouble at home . |
| 2 | ‘ So you gave him the key . |
| 3 | He looked like a wild thing so we called him the Yeti . |
| 4 | I know my father would raise a terrific stink if I told him the Headmistress had grabbed me by the hair and slung me over the playground fence . ’ |
| 5 | Well I suppose I 'm sure Adrian wo n't mind if I paid him the day after or a week after or something . |
| 6 | All he wants to do is to get his hand inside my blouse or up my skirt , but if I gave him the chance to do anything more he 'd be so scared he 'd wet his pants . ’ |
| 7 | He said of course he 'd do it if I gave him the phone number of the hospital . |
| 8 | In the morning after their breakfast coffee , he stood silently and balefully near her until she gave him the fare to Dublin . |
| 9 | Imagine his face if she told him the truth : that , far from not liking him , she was labouring under this absurd fantasy that she loved him — for how else could she explain the turmoil that heaved inside her mind and body ? |
| 10 | She longed , oh , she burned to be able to tell him the truth , but Ace 's threats held ; also by the way Mike was looking at her at the moment he probably would n't believe her if she told him the truth about their relationship . |
| 11 | And he has come home this morning worn out with experience , all grief and all wonder , because she gave him the psaltery on which he played to her , and sent him a message straight out of the jongleurs ’ romances . |
| 12 | Frank and unremorseful about his homosexuality , he never fully resolved his attitude towards it , in part because it denied him the family he would have liked to have had . |
| 13 | When I brought him the food he pushed it away and suddenly burst into tears all over again . |
| 14 | The reason I called James Hunt ‘ Master James ’ , a sobriquet which his sponsors , Texaco , took up and plastered ( without payment ! ) on billboards all over the country , was that he appeared to be exactly that , -a rather well-brought-up young man , properly educated , well-mannered ( when I gave him the name , though not in some of his more flamboyant later incarnations ! ) and thoroughly at home in the establishment circles in which he moved . |
| 15 | But as I handed him the money the room grew quiet again . |
| 16 | Would he listen to her when she told him the truth about Janice ? |
| 17 | When she passed him the number of her room ( thinking no one else knew she had ) and left to await him , he remained in the ballroom drinking , and when I left at midnight he was still there looking bored and lonely , missing his live-in girlfriend Marie Lisa Volpelierre ( who not long after died so tragically in a riding accident ) . |
| 18 | She had expected him to leave her but he stayed watching her quietly , picking a biscuit off the plate himself , sharing her milk when she offered him the glass . |
| 19 | Rather to her disappointment , Giles replied , and when she gave him the news about Yvette she added cautiously , ‘ Mind you , she still has a little way to go yet , but I think she 'll be OK . ’ |
| 20 | When she gave him the number he just rang off and left her staring at the phone . |
| 21 | ‘ There , Mr Cottle , ’ Mary Ann was saying to the traveller in jelly , as she passed him the bread and butter , ‘ this 'll put roses in your cheeks . ’ |
| 22 | Their hands touched as she passed him the bottle . |
| 23 | But as she reached him the vision shimmered and disappeared and she was alone , stumbling as she tried to find her way through the shadows of a forest , mist cloaking the branches of the trees . |
| 24 | As she showed him the barn , they began to talk of the forest . |
| 25 | As she handed him the cup of tea her tone changed : ‘ Not that I 'm against joking , but everything in its place ; when I 'm here with Aunt Lizzie , we chaff each other , but … but not all the time . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I know what you mean , ’ she murmured , willing her hands to remain steady as she handed him the cup . |
| 27 | Merrill protested as she handed him the file . |
| 28 | He did not feel happy when they told him the result . |
| 29 | The Government must have thought that he was worth the money when they gave him the job and they must value his advice . |
| 30 | When they gave him the MBE ( some said it should have been the Croix de Guerre ) for services to the Party , the club committee charged 10p a pint all day . |