Example sentences of "and [vb past] him the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | it was n't good because erm I did n't love him and right so , so if I kissed him and met him the next day would I , would I snog , would , would he , he 'd give me the hat so I said yeah sure , you know , whatever , so he goes okay and he like prepared himself and goes no I ca n't do it in here and so I had to go outside with him , snog him , got his hat and pissed off , never saw him again . |
| 2 | Bill Williams , a journeyman , witnessed how he had met Day in the Barley Mow at Hungerford , and sold him the incriminating tobacco box . |
| 3 | I refreshed his glass and told him the terrible truth . |
| 4 | I gave McDunn the two names last night and told him the respective professions of their owners , then clammed up , just refused to say any more about them or about the body . |
| 5 | ‘ Then , before I could stop her she got my father out of bed and told him the whole thing . |
| 6 | He held for Alice altogether a great fascination , but she steadfastly refused offers to go and see him in the nursery , and ignored him the few occasions he was on show . |
| 7 | One of them , small and dusty and obscure in its corner , took the sunlight as he drew it towards him , and showed him the vigorous sketch of a face he knew well , a face he had seen long ago in the triforium , when he had crouched against the wall in the last embrasure of the walk , listening to the approaching footsteps of his enemy . |
| 8 | Election and investiture had been accomplished in a confused way when the king nominated him and offered him the pastoral staff , round which the bishops pressed Anselm 's resisting fingers . |
| 9 | Reaching the end of the line , he danced over to where Mait sat in the sedan chair , and offered him the strange object . |
| 10 | I unzipped the pouch round my waist and gave him the small jar of paint and the sawn-off paintbrush . |
| 11 | As soon as he entered the first field to be cut his mates up-ended him and gave him the same treatment which stopped only when he shouted ‘ Beer ! ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ Oui , ’ she said , and gave him the folded note . |