Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [vb past] him the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 And I told him the whole story of our voyage , and the danger we were now in .
2 The Sheriff asked me the same question and I gave him the same answer as I have you . ’
3 As soon as he got home , the telephone was ringing and she told him the same thing many times .
4 ‘ Which way ? ’ he asked , when at last the engine spluttered into life , and she directed him the wrong way round so that they might overtake and confront the trio lurching towards Midnight Mass .
5 ‘ He was up against international defenders and they paid him the ultimate compliment of having to trip him up half of the time .
6 And they gave him the rowdiest send-off of the campaign .
7 And it gave him the halfway lead of 132 , 12 under par .
8 He could hit it as far as a 3-wood — and it won him the 1973 Open .
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