Example sentences of "[verb] him [pos pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Send him your technical queries at the usual address . |
| 2 | His wife , an Italian American girl , bore him his handicapped daughter Tiffany , now 25 , and his only child . |
| 3 | Despite the quality of mind which had won him his first-class honours degree and led him to a study of modern philosophical and psychological theory , he rode like a conqueror over the rules of logic and morality . |
| 4 | Gatsby is very nervous , as he has n't seen Daisy for many years and if she no longer loves him his whole purpose for living has gone . |
| 5 | The Leeds striker 's world fell apart when a hamstring injury cost him his first-ever place in a senior England squad in Spain tomorrow . |
| 6 | Dickins , a £200,000 signing from Lincoln on transfer deadline day , owed his debut to the thigh injury to Bobby Mimms , which cost him his ever-present record . |
| 7 | She set up a bedside vigil , had special drugs imported from Germany , played him his favourite music and discouraged everyone else from visiting , including his own children . |
| 8 | I did n't know about God , but that was when I knew it was serious , when she told him her secret identity . |
| 9 | It was housed in the belvedere , a word that Ernest insisted meant ‘ bell tower ’ even after his sister Cecilia told him its correct meaning of ‘ beautiful view ’ or ‘ beautiful to see ’ . |
| 10 | They told him his usual fee of $150,000 was too high . |
| 11 | But the careers office told him his poor sight ruled him out , a Winchester inquest heard yesterday . |
| 12 | He summoned Chamberlain to see him again first thing the next morning and told him his new plan . |
| 13 | I could n't find out anything about him , not even where he lived , though I told him my entire address ( 17 Daffodil Cottages , Bourton-on-the-Water ) and my age ( nineteen ) and that my parents were in Saudi Arabia where my father was computerising oil production . |
| 14 | They told us at school to ask a policeman if we got lost , and show him our yellow card with our name and address on it . |
| 15 | I show him my power-packed bony fist and wave my eight-inch thick-soled boots at him . |
| 16 | His secretaryship of the UDC , which he held until his death , cost him his Liberal candidacy and led to six months ' imprisonment for a technical breach of the Defence of the Realm Act . |
| 17 | well I , I 'll give him his due old er who is it ? |
| 18 | The hospital will give him my car-phone number and he 'll call me as we drive in … |
| 19 | She had made him his favourite bottom pie and onions for supper that evening when he came in from the fishing , and he had gone back down to Mother Russell 's after , for a few ales . |
| 20 | At Question Time today , the Prime Minister , in ruling out a referendum , boasted that the right hon. Lady in her speech yesterday had promised him her full support . |
| 21 | The first Headmaster of the Bermondsey Asylum was Joseph Watson , a nephew of Thomas Braidwood , who had shown him his personal technique of teaching deaf and dumb children . |
| 22 | This power also has proved to be potent on a truly universal level , with France in particular warming to the man 's work and awarding him its prestigious Chevalier of Arts and Letters , an honour doubtless of special significance to a writer who lists Flaubert and Stendhal as primary influences . |
| 23 | ‘ No , stupid , if she shows him her pretty face . ’ |
| 24 | He pushed through the door of the Deputy Chief of Staff , who at that time was General Neil Ritchie , and handed him his pencil-written memorandum . |
| 25 | Now simply efficient , she finished dressing him , put him into his cot and handed him his final bottle of milk of the day . |
| 26 | Grant handed him his personal transceiver to clip on to Delaney 's webbing . |
| 27 | Lopez gave him a kitchen towel so that he could wipe himself up with , handed him his discarded clothes and sent him on his way via the Hippodrome 's back door . |
| 28 | Actually I 've been I was sitting in the lounge today right and you know the situation there see his car going round the corner and stop and got out the car beaming at me , I said cor give him my old ! |
| 29 | But a few weeks earlier he had tentatively approached his departmental head to point out that the qualification which had got him his original interview was a first-class degree in French and Spanish , and that perhaps these abilities might be harnessed to the service of the business . |
| 30 | Oh , thank Earth-and-animals I had n't told him my real name ! |