Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [verb] him a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I made him a vow , ’ she shrugged . |
| 2 | But she calls him a friend , and I have no objections . |
| 3 | He tried to start things up in a halfhearted sort of way , but she gave him an ultimatum . |
| 4 | I said the sharp one this one he 's fairly cheap but they use him a lot , . |
| 5 | The airport hotel was an expensive way to live , but they gave him a trade reduction , which seemed the logically absurd extension of a farcical situation . |
| 6 | As a result he was suspended for two years , which of course delayed his entry into first-class cricket ; but it taught him a lot . |
| 7 | Einstein proposed a simple relationship but it took him a number of years to identify the precise form of the curvature tensor involved . |
| 8 | But it gave him an excuse to retire for a while , to re-assess things . |