Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] him this " in BNC.

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1 England manager Graham Taylor has given him this Saturday off to attend the wedding of his sister Anne-Marie .
2 I tried to catch him this morning , before we went to our appointments , but he would n't speak to me .
3 Now he has decamped to Hollywood , where his blandly commercial approach and hit track record has won him this prestigious assignment , a high-concept , low-intelligence star vehicle .
4 The enclosed experiments will , I doubt not , excuse this my freedom in endeavouring to give him this opportunity of becoming acquainted with you .
5 I do n't need to tell him this because I am clutching them upright in my hand .
6 The ISPA plans to pay him this money later in the week but is also to discipline him .
7 ‘ I know where he 's staying and I 'm going to tackle him this evening . ’
8 Egan had promised to do him this service .
9 Their lamb chops had arrived as she finished telling him this sad story .
10 His pride could not have permitted him this simple insight .
11 It could have saved him this time , but the policeman , half nerved up for aggression , caught him fairly in the doorway and hung on with professional ease .
12 He said : ‘ I could have seen him this morning before your lot arrived but I funked it . ’
13 Good lord ! and but for his hand going up she would really have brained him this time , and then where would she have been ?
14 Just as well that she had been at least spared the ordeal of having to face him this morning .
15 Well you 'll have to ask him this .
16 ‘ You went to see him this morning … ? ’
17 Erm I 'd like to see Eddie cos I did n't get to see him this time or last time .
18 ‘ We did give him this massive bouquet , though , ’ said Debi .
19 No , but Mr did , did tell him this morning .
20 Jean-Paul flicked the pages ; he could n't see why Edouard had given him this .
21 If a magistrate or other influential figure in a town was the owner of a building in which an excise office was then located , he too was vulnerable to pressure should he waver in his loyalty to the political interest which had given him this tenant .
22 The proctor minor of his chamber , Baal Firenze , had assigned him this mission , presumably acting on the instructions of a Hidden Master .
23 The amount of times you 've rung him this week !
24 He said that an English sergeant who acted as orderly in the ‘ cooler ’ had told him this , and that he had promised to come back later in the day with some cigarettes for us .
25 He just did n't comprehend what she had told him this afternoon .
26 I 've told him this !
27 Someone had called him this more as an insult than a compliment but Francis took a liking to it and you will find salamanders carved all over his palaces .
28 His lovely Janine had brought him this low , had brought Michael Ryan into his home .
29 Guilt because she had not been at her father 's side when death had sent him this violent warning .
30 I wrote to tell him this , and also referring to another book he had sent me , and I received a reply dated 19 March 1937 :
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