Example sentences of "[verb] him the [adj -est] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A note from Bartram in 1745 seems to imply a slight difference of opinion as his account of some American pines had been questioned : ‘ But as I have great opinion of Miller 's learning and judgement , I am engaged in duty and friendship to inform him the best I can . ’ |
| 2 | But I told him the best publishers to try — the pink-ohs , you know . |
| 3 | Endill told him the quickest way out of the school . |
| 4 | ‘ I reckon she told him the youngest boy was his worked on him that way . |
| 5 | Now , forty years on , there was at last the technology — laser-tracking CD video — that would give him the finest sound with the finest picture-resolution in a medium that was compatible with the new domestic sound system that would , by the early 1990s , render the LP largely obsolete . |
| 6 | An experimental scientist , on the other hand , arranges matters so that what happens will give him the greatest possible amount of information . |
| 7 | The reason for this , I later discovered , is that at yours there is likely to be a selection of friends and relations , one of whom in the course of discussion is bound to say , ‘ Come on , let's give him the best ! ’ and although he or she is very seldom the one who is paying for it , no one likes to appear mean at such a time — an attitude , I might add , of which the undertaker thoroughly approves ! |
| 8 | And then , looking back at the pictures — sharp , full of insight , yet somehow slightly flashy — he wondered whether , indirectly , they did n't give him the best notion he yet had got of Walter Machin himself . |
| 9 | The state of the microscopist 's art is now such that the choice of instrument to use depends largely on what he wants to see , and in some applications the acoustic microscope may give him the sharpest pictures ever . |
| 10 | They may not have made him the finest British light comedian since his hero David Niven , but at least they rescued him from an uncertain future in Britain where he may have ended up as a cross between Roy Castle and Ronnie Corbett . |
| 11 | Loss of manuscripts or illustrations seem to cause him the greatest concern . |
| 12 | A moral is drawn advising husbands : ( Do just as Hain did with his wife , who would only ever show him the slightest respect , until he had beaten her to the core . ) |
| 13 | And his mum Sherie has promised him the best one ever . |
| 14 | I had thought him the luckiest man on the FAKOUM Central Committee . |
| 15 | I … that is I , my wife and my children … we , I , do not like to invite a friend to a party and not give him the best . |
| 16 | Although the polls give him the lowest performance rating of any post-war leader , Mr Major doubted there would be a challenge this year . |
| 17 | So you will walk into that store and give him the haughtiest stare you are capable of — and you can do it , ’ he promised . |
| 18 | We 've offered him the best contract we could give him |
| 19 | Then he smiled , and it was as it she had told him the best news there was to tell ; and when she thought about it , she supposed that she had . |
| 20 | ‘ He says he 's interested in building up a representative collection of primitive and tribal art , but when we tell him the best place to look is in his own back yard , as it were , he tells us he does n't want Abo art , ’ James said , trying unsuccessfully to pronounce the last two words of his sentence with what he imagined was an Australian accent . |
| 21 | " Hell buy ten grand 's worth of … ( an electronics company ) , if I tell him the latest profit figures . |
| 22 | His skipper , Richard Gough , calls him the best player at the club . |
| 23 | But Mr Norman Bell , who drives the No 8 United bus between Barnard Castle and Bishop Auckland , was called in to learn a survey had found him the friendliest bus driver in Britain . |
| 24 | These plans will be costed , giving him the best possible chance to make an effective case . |
| 25 | By evading him earlier that morning she 'd played into his hands , at the same time both increasing his suspicions and giving him the best part of the day to allay them . |
| 26 | He wants to know what the job of a Euro MP is , well he is applying for a Euro seat , I do wish him the best of luck and when he 's been there |
| 27 | In 1986 Forbes magazine named him the richest man in America . |
| 28 | His long experience of bird watching in the hills of Arran had taught him the best vantage points . |
| 29 | ‘ That time would make him the best dog at the track , ’ said joint racing manager Jimmy Nunn . |
| 30 | Lewis fuses a blend of soul , jazz and rock to haunting effect which may well make him the hottest new talent since Seal . |