Example sentences of "[verb] him his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His wife , an Italian American girl , bore him his handicapped daughter Tiffany , now 25 , and his only child . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | That maturity has won him his first TV starring role in ITV 's new £2 million , three-part drama serial The Blackheath Poisonings which starts on Monday . |
| 4 | And his own man in Atlanta , where his straight talking and his independence had won him his next posting . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They told him his usual fee of $150,000 was too high . |
| 10 | But the careers office told him his poor sight ruled him out , a Winchester inquest heard yesterday . |
| 11 | He summoned Chamberlain to see him again first thing the next morning and told him his new plan . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Morris also supplied Swan with two of his three National mounts — Last of the brownies , Mick 's Star and Roc de Prince — but he did n't give him his first Liverpool winner . |
| 14 | well I , I 'll give him his due old er who is it ? |
| 15 | But it is the horse who was third the day before who could give him his biggest win , matching Omerta 's success in the National Hunt Chase at Cheltenham in 1986 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The barman at the Tomorrowman polished up his impersonations and looked forward to the day after tomorrow , when Rex had promised him his own show . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | But friends and well wishers rallied round and calling themselves Ashleys army , raised enough cash to buy him his own gymnasium . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Now simply efficient , she finished dressing him , put him into his cot and handed him his final bottle of milk of the day . |
| 22 | Grant handed him his personal transceiver to clip on to Delaney 's webbing . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Lambert showed him his left shoulder . |
| 26 | Stewart and Olazabal came back at him over the back nine but , unlike in the Lancome Trophy when Eduardo Romero chipped in to deny him his second tour victory this year , this time the West German was not to be disappointed . |
| 27 | ‘ Next time you meet Monsieur Ralemberg , just tell him his old friends the Luciferi are with him ! ’ |
| 28 | Now , in an ironic reverse , being kept in the cold at Highbury could cost him his international place . |
| 29 | But one thing that I would share with you and it 's this , is that whenever the friends of Jesus eat and drink together they remember him his sacrificial love for them and the wonderful gift of freedom that he has made possible . |
| 30 | It was Mrs Robinson who served him his late breakfast and it took no more than the tapping of an eggshell to discover from that guileless woman that her husband had gone down to Lorton with goats ' cheese and potted char for the market men who called there on a Thursday . |