Example sentences of "his [noun] [to-vb] [pers pn] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his Reith lectures , broadcast in 1991 and now published as a book , he has set aside his snails to give us a glimpse of human evolution through his geneticist 's eye . |
| 2 | The Bomb Circle , my dad 's leg and his stick , his reluctance to get me a motorbike perhaps , the candles in the skull , the legions of dead mice and hamsters — they 're all the fault of Agnes , my father 's second wife and my mother . |
| 3 | She nodded slightly , and he bent his head to give her a kiss which was meant to be fleeting , but which went on and on until they were breathless and shaken when he put her away from him at last . |
| 4 | I 'll talk to you about one of his experiments to give you a sort of flavour of it , although other people and himself and others have done a lot of interesting work that 's similar . |
| 5 | ‘ Ask the waiter with the dent in his forehead to give you a bucketful of ice cubes and three or four napkins . |
| 6 | The King ordered his people to make me a bed , using six hundred Lilliputian beds . |
| 7 | Some months earlier , in the autumn of 1182 , young Henry had once again asked his father to give him a principality , Normandy , so that he could make proper provision for his own knights . |
| 8 | He was astonished to find three detectives knocking at his door to arrest him a couple of days later . |
| 9 | When the shops opened he had sent out two of his men to buy him a list of items he needed : a very large-scale map of the area north of London extending fifty miles in all directions , a matching sheet of clear plastic , map-pins , chinagraph pencils in different colours . |
| 10 | Malc sold his trumpet to buy me a wedding ring . |
| 11 | To young to join in the usual share-out of meat after a kill , he had waited instead for his mother to give him a portion of hers . |
| 12 | Lady Spencer had to phone Lord Charles for details of the memorial service , and he asked his solicitor to send her a fax . |
| 13 | Years previously , Morrissey had invited Tony Wilson round to his house to play him a demo tape . |
| 14 | She had invaded his cranny to do him a favour . |
| 15 | In assumpsit in the Common Bench , it was alleged that Brathwait , having killed a man , asked the plaintiff to use his endeavours to obtain him a pardon , wherefore the plaintiff did go to Royston to the King to get the pardon and , in consideration of this service , the defendant promised the plaintiff £100 . |
| 16 | There was another Moses , a Midianite , who introduced the god Yahweh , a local volcanic god — ‘ a coarse , narrow-minded , local god , violent and bloodthirsty , he had promised his followers to give them a land flowing with milk and honey ’ . |