Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | His pride could not have permitted him this simple insight . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He said : ‘ I could have seen him this morning before your lot arrived but I funked it . ’ |
| 6 | Good lord ! and but for his hand going up she would really have brained him this time , and then where would she have been ? |
| 7 | Jean-Paul flicked the pages ; he could n't see why Edouard had given him this . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The proctor minor of his chamber , Baal Firenze , had assigned him this mission , presumably acting on the instructions of a Hidden Master . |
| 10 | The amount of times you 've rung him this week ! |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He just did n't comprehend what she had told him this afternoon . |
| 13 | I 've told him this ! |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | His lovely Janine had brought him this low , had brought Michael Ryan into his home . |
| 16 | Guilt because she had not been at her father 's side when death had sent him this violent warning . |
| 17 | Nine minutes it 's taken him this evening , no more — almost as fast as me . |