Example sentences of "[verb] him the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Activity in these roles absorbs most of his time and energy : it will win him the popularity essential to his reelection . |
| 2 | They had no idea that his old world manners and charm would win him the love of the most eligible divorcee in the land , the Princess Royal , Princess Anne . |
| 3 | It implies that the Prime Minister has permitted him the freedom ‘ to take whatever action is needed ’ in the past . |
| 4 | but I mean you send the package out and you get a phone call er it 's Mr Davies , and then you get card out and then you send him the questionnaire it 's merely a record duplicated on the form but |
| 5 | highways and that sort of thing , and he does go to Farnsfield , and he does go to Oxford and back , and really all you need do is just send him , you need n't send him the minutes here , you just send him the notice of the meeting |
| 6 | You could buy him the Crown of Command as one of his magic items , which at 50 points still makes him marginally cheaper than an Orc or Black Orc Warlord . |
| 7 | Lothlórien has won many hearts , and even the most censorious of Tolkien 's critics have accordingly been ready to grant him the ability to create nice settings . |
| 8 | Edward undertook to place a force of 600 men at the duke 's disposal and to grant him the earldom of Richmond , to which his family had an ancient claim and which John of Gaunt relinquished for the purpose . |
| 9 | Charles II managed to induce the Barbados assembly to grant him the revenue forever from a tax of 4½ per cent of the value of all sugar exported from the island , and the Leeward Islands settled on the same terms and were briefly united under the same governor as Barbados . |
| 10 | His clever course management in the wake of continuous swing problems had made Olazabal a huge favourite with the Sun City galleries , many of whom rated him the superior of Seve Ballesteros , a two-time winner of the event . |
| 11 | If he does not declare an intention to defend the action or make an offer , the second date , known as the calling date , is the date on which the claimant can ask for a Decree from the court declaring that the debtor owes him the sum sued for . |
| 12 | In spite of the strangeness of Eliot 's behaviour , however , few people begrudged him the happiness which in personal relations he had never experienced before : " He obviously needed to have a happy marriage , " Valerie Eliot said on a later occasion , " He could n't die until he had had it " . |
| 13 | For bed a roadside ditch in the summer , a barn or hay-loft in the winter was all he sought , while for food and drink a farmer 's wife never begrudged him the plate of bread and potatoes washed down by a mug of tay . |
| 14 | Although Edward apparently promised him the captaincy of Berwick in September 1319 , during the English siege of the town , and grants continued to come his way during 1320 , his allegiance was soon to be severed by the ambitions of Despenser , whose attempts in 1320–1 to enlarge his share of the Gloucester inheritance in south Wales raised the whole march against him . |
| 15 | She drew him the length of her body , and he glided into her as she kissed his mouth . |
| 16 | You 'll have to take a good swim to find him the night , over to Holland , I 'd say . |
| 17 | And it 's that devotion that 's just won him the title of Britains most romantic top tycoon . |
| 18 | A BOY 'S ambition to run a cafe with a smile has won him the title of Smarties ' Young Achiever of the Year . |
| 19 | And his own man in the Washington Field Office , the CI-3 team , and putting in the longest hours and never a word of complaint , and that had won him the job in the Attaché 's office in Rome . |
| 20 | Hoskyns found him the opening — sub-warden of Lincoln Theological College . |
| 21 | I , I can remember all the activity and er when it was erected there was a fella from the First World War , he lost a leg in the war and he was in charge of the billiards room and the tables , when they built the club itself the front part used to be devoted to card games and then they installed a billiards hall and the tables and as I say a chap named he used to live in Street , but he was , a lost a leg during the war and they found him the job of looking after the tables and marking |
| 22 | When it found him the mouth opened in a roar of triumph , lips pulling apart behind the vizor to reveal huge yellow teeth . |
| 23 | In the circumstances the degree of kinship was sufficiently close to secure him the support he required . |
| 24 | But a boardroom vote of six to one in favour was not enough to secure him the position . |
| 25 | He was aware that I had disliked him the day before and seemed anxious to make me change my opinion . |
| 26 | I took Sir Ralph to the top of the stairs into the North Bastion tower but the passageway was so narrow Colebrooke helped him the rest of the way . ’ |
| 27 | Last year Andres Gomez beat him the final ; this time it was Courier and everyone remembers things about him . |
| 28 | They dogged him the length and breadth of the country , wherever the small troupe of players appeared . |
| 29 | Similarly in He loves her ; She loves him the form he is replaced by him after loves , while her becomes she after loves . |
| 30 | Vulgar speculation about his love life usually enraged Richard ; there was still a mark on the pearl damask wall where he had hurled a glass of whisky on receiving the news that People magazine had voted him the World 's Sexiest Man of 1984 . |