Example sentences of "have [verb] him a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Ernest Jarvis did what he had to do elaborately , and it must have taken him a long time . |
| 32 | However , his blazing indignation appears to have given him a nasty dose of alliterative-itis in a NUPE press release condemning the report as ‘ more market madness mirroring the mayhem in the mines ’ . |
| 33 | His attempt to murder her seemed to have given him a new strength in the relationship . |
| 34 | I said , " You 've given him a bloody licence to do it . " |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | ‘ 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 . |
| 38 | 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 ) . |
| 39 | By September the Franco courts had given him a twenty-year prison sentence . |
| 40 | Her rifle butt had given him a nasty knock , but there would be no lasting damage . |
| 41 | They 'd had a good time , it had given him a good holiday , her too . |
| 42 | These debates were eventually brought to a close by Williams , but by this time his fame had spread throughout the islands and had given him a mass following , especially among the lower Creole class . |
| 43 | Edward , whose joyful encounter with Joan de Warenne had given him a further reason for wishing to gain his freedom , sought for some means of contacting his mother . |
| 44 | His father had given him a plentiful supply of money and there was considerable justification for the war . |
| 45 | Leith was about to state , quite forcefully , that she was there to work , not to flirt with every male who chanced his arm , when suddenly she realised that if he knew she had worked for Vasey 's for only a short while then there was a fair chance either someone from Personnel , or Mr Catham , had given him a brief run-down on each employee before he met them . |
| 46 | What startled spectator did not know was that a chiropractor on the Olympic Staff had given him a spinal adjustment immediately after the accident . |
| 47 | The Street Duties sergeant at the police station had given him a hard time . |
| 48 | To help publicise the launch of the airline , Branson had taken on the services of Tony Brainsby , a man whose hyperventilated style of press-arousal on behalf of such clients as Paul McCartney had made him a small legend in the pop world . |
| 49 | In addition , Seb 's fight with Boz had made him a temporary focus for their anger . |
| 50 | William Quekett was living in fashionable Well Close Square in the 1840s — a few doors away from John Frederick Hasted , Benjamin Titford 's cousin — but his real work lay in the poor courts and alleyways of the parish at large , where his dedication and Christian charity had made him a legendary figure . |
| 51 | And Reynolds said that the fight to clear his name had made him a stronger person . |
| 52 | His pre-Civil War sympathies for the national-syndicalist JONS and his membership of Falange from 1936 onwards had made him a natural choice for the post of ambassador to Vichy . |
| 53 | The farmer , himself a member of the planning committee , had recently removed his stockman from the cottage had built him a modern bungalow on the farm , an arrangement now recognised as less altruistic than it might appear . |
| 54 | Lorton had lent him a black Balaclava helmet which covered all of his head except the eyes and the bridge of the nose ; feeling like a trainee terrorist , he pulled it on ; he was grateful for its warmth . |
| 55 | He had lent him a chauffeur-driven car and expensive office equipment during the General Election . |
| 56 | The gaffer knocked somebody off their pushbike , had to buy him a new wheel and some compensation |
| 57 | She had bought him a new trilby with the tiniest of blue feathers tucked into the band at the crown . |
| 58 | I had bought him a musical tie which woke him up from an afternoon nap when he rolled on to it . |
| 59 | He had resolved to keep it for the whole year , egged on by his father , who had promised him a new bicycle if he succeeded . |
| 60 | He did not put on his sword , for no weapons were permitted at such occasions , though Ratagan had told him a gory tale of a banquet where a certain disagreement had been settled with eating knives , which the victors had subsequently continued eating with . |