Example sentences of "had [adv] [verb] him a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought it was very unfortunate that Catherine had only given him a daughter , not a son . |
| 2 | The couple were taken to police headquarters for questioning where they admitted they had picked up a man on the night of 10 July by the harbour but did not know him and had only given him a lift into town . |
| 3 | If in this respect Gloucester was still very much his brother 's agent , it is clear that his closeness to the king had already made him a person of some consequence . |
| 4 | If in this respect Gloucester was still very much his brother 's agent , it is clear that his closeness to the king had already made him a person of some consequence . |
| 5 | Pope Gregory VIII ( the former chancellor , Albert de Morra , who had contacts with France ) , who enjoyed only a ten-week pontificate , had already made him a subdeacon between October and December 1187 . |
| 6 | I had already sent him a book , examples of my work , a letter about why and how I was doing the book , all for the sake of just one short interview . |
| 7 | One had already borne him a son ; one would do so soon . |
| 8 | He needed a drink before he spoke to McGann , and Dowd , ever the anticipator , had already mixed him a whisky and soda , but he forsook it for fear it would loosen his tongue . |
| 9 | Peters 's independent approach to economic policy — particularly his reservations concerning the social consequences of economic deregulation — had already earned him a shadow Cabinet demotion in 1989 . |
| 10 | St Paul 's daily routine , as a law-abiding Jew , would have included a prayer to say thank you that God had not made him a Gentile , a slave or a woman — in that order ! |
| 11 | If he was disappointed that his dead wife had not borne him a son to carry on the tradition , he had never remarried ; there was Dinah , who was ample reward , investment for the future . |
| 12 | Theseus would still be blundering around in the labyrinth where he went to slay the Minotaur , if Ariadne had not given him a ball of thread so that he could retrace his steps when the deed was done . |
| 13 | She had not imagined him a sportsman . |
| 14 | His gloom was reinforced because the Lebanese embassy had just refused him a visa and the only two countries he thought he could get into were Jordan and Romania , neither of which were likely to offer him employment . |
| 15 | And of course that was why Hardy had taken against him , why he had left him on the sidelines any time he picked a team for some action , why he had now given him a job that he knew anyone else in the unit would have balked at . |
| 16 | Arriving back , as he did from his holidays , to discover that his honourable companions had n't given him a second to call his own , he took umbrage ( somewhere near Troy ) |
| 17 | The answer came suddenly , a slap in the face that made her wince : because , on the only occasion when Merrill had actually confronted him with her suspicions — had brought them right out into the open — she had n't given him a chance to explain . |
| 18 | It was over , he was unhurt , and it had n't cost him a penny apart from the few pence in his pocket — and as the kidnapping was n't what was eating his heart out he knew he could n't pretend it was . |
| 19 | After all , she had signed Sting in the first place ( she had even given him a list of music-business lawyers to consult at the time , but he had used the Newcastle lawyer because he was cheaper ) . |
| 20 | She had even bought him a hunting dog as a present , a sleek , golden , sweet-tempered animal from which he at once became inseparable . |
| 21 | Handling the fast terrain with confidence several sceptics had previously labelled him a mudlark with no acceleration - Captain Dibble jumped superbly under champion Peter Scudamore , gradually grinding Dalkey Sound into submission . |