Example sentences of "[verb] him his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You provided him his death , others have provided him a grave . |
| 2 | ‘ To do strict justice , ’ said Isambard equably , ‘ John the Fletcher provided him his death , and Benedetta procured him to do it . |
| 3 | It was this willingness , free from any sense of banality , to dress traditional teaching in modern cliché , which had won him his bishopric . |
| 4 | When I found him his body was sprawled over the stool . ’ |
| 5 | One such affront , to the Archduke of Austria , later cost him his freedom and caused him to suffer a long imprisonment from which he was only freed at huge expense — much of which was raised by his neglected kingdom of England . |
| 6 | Another deaf man , a David Bedwell who had partial hearing , enlisted in the Army Service Corps as a driver , and his deafness cost him his life when he failed to hear three challenges as he was approaching the gates of a barracks . |
| 7 | The tragedy of the whole affair becomes so pathetic as we realise that Coleen does love him and only a delay of post cost him his life . |
| 8 | But the momentary paralysis and the matter of seconds it took him to unwind and cast off the incubus cost him his chance . |
| 9 | Coupled with his backing for the Beeching report , however , it cost him his seat . |
| 10 | He was not wholly a man of nostalgia , and the road accident which cost him his son at the age of 21 all but destroyed his religious faith . |
| 11 | In next to no time a puncture cost him his lead and a further 11 seconds . |
| 12 | In fact , ‘ Damnation Derek ’ is a Christian who believes in ‘ Witnessing ’ and it is this simple , even commendable desire to tell others about God and all things Christian that has earned him his nickname ( 'Damnation' is n't his real name — in case you thought he had very unloving parents ! ) and which has made him a Playground Health Hazard . |
| 13 | Once asked many years ago by a visiting American Congresswoman what it was like having a woman leader , Grunte had replied that it was like being at home all day , a bon mot that had earned him his place in ‘ Sayings of the Week ’ . |
| 14 | In fact Bowe , the giggling assassin from Mike Tyson 's hometown of Brownsville , has stopped all but four opponents in an unbeaten 31-fight career that has earned him his right to challenge Evander Holyfield for the world heavyweight title here on Friday . |
| 15 | A hairdresser believes he sees the ghost of a fellow-soldier ; spends some years in a mental hospital ; on his release is rejected by his wife who he believes is ‘ denying him his existence ’ ; begins to think that everyone else is denying him his existence , perhaps because he was once shot at by a German and they all think he is dead ; spends his Sundays looking into the river for the bullet which missed him ; after his death , his wife discovers she is pregnant ; she lets it be known that the hairdresser has spoken to her by night and told her ‘ he was very happy that she had recognized the child as his , because that way she had stopped denying him his existence ’ ; when eventually she moves away from Piacenza , the hairdresser stops speaking to her by night . |
| 16 | A hairdresser believes he sees the ghost of a fellow-soldier ; spends some years in a mental hospital ; on his release is rejected by his wife who he believes is ‘ denying him his existence ’ ; begins to think that everyone else is denying him his existence , perhaps because he was once shot at by a German and they all think he is dead ; spends his Sundays looking into the river for the bullet which missed him ; after his death , his wife discovers she is pregnant ; she lets it be known that the hairdresser has spoken to her by night and told her ‘ he was very happy that she had recognized the child as his , because that way she had stopped denying him his existence ’ ; when eventually she moves away from Piacenza , the hairdresser stops speaking to her by night . |
| 17 | A hairdresser believes he sees the ghost of a fellow-soldier ; spends some years in a mental hospital ; on his release is rejected by his wife who he believes is ‘ denying him his existence ’ ; begins to think that everyone else is denying him his existence , perhaps because he was once shot at by a German and they all think he is dead ; spends his Sundays looking into the river for the bullet which missed him ; after his death , his wife discovers she is pregnant ; she lets it be known that the hairdresser has spoken to her by night and told her ‘ he was very happy that she had recognized the child as his , because that way she had stopped denying him his existence ’ ; when eventually she moves away from Piacenza , the hairdresser stops speaking to her by night . |
| 18 | But I do n't grudge him his rest , poor imp , he needs it . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Should I grudge him his sport ? |
| 20 | For a start , Oliver would always provide the girls and I would always provide the money , though naturally I had to slip him his half of it beforehand so the girls would n't know who was really paying . |
| 21 | Late in 1903 , Dunlop asked Kilpatrick to sell him his half-share in the Baron so that he , Dunlop , could be sole owner . |
| 22 | A writes to B offering to sell him his horse Phineas for £100 . |
| 23 | A writes to B offering to sell him his horse Phineas for £100. ( i ) B posts a letter accepting , but he misdirects it and in consequence it is a week late in being delivered to A. Meanwhile A has sold Phineas to C. ( ii ) B , after posting a letter of acceptance to A , sends A a telegram cancelling ‘ my letter now in the post . ’ |
| 24 | Mr Yenici said he accepted £3,000 when the broker assured him his organ would be transplanted into a poor person in England . |
| 25 | The jury heard a tape-recording of an interview between police officers and Hammond , in which he sobbed repeatedly when the officers told him his daughter was dead . |
| 26 | She saw him blush , the way Mike might have done if someone told him his salary at the bank was inadequate . |
| 27 | His unerring instinct told him his company had stumbled across something special and he released ‘ I Should Be So Lucky ’ on his own PWL label . |
| 28 | Now an angry little girl told him his back was straight , and he believed her . |
| 29 | I felt I had to make him happy after all the sad things which had happened to him , so I told him his English was very good . |
| 30 | A last uneasy look at the chief inspector told him his visitor was genuinely interested , paying no more than a routine call . |