Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] him the " in BNC.
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| 1 | That made him the perfect fling . |
| 2 | ‘ Does that make him the murderer ? ’ whispered Alice in an aside to Alfred . |
| 3 | They moved on after that , with Jessica dropping in bits about Parr as they occurred to her — although not that she was due to meet him the next day . |
| 4 | This made him the ideal choice to fly this naval fighter . |
| 5 | This made him the intellectual heir of John Hunter , whose Essays and Observations he published with due filial piety in 1861 . |
| 6 | Some would say this made him the ideal publisher of a newspaper . |
| 7 | Nor did this do him the least harm in his relations with the police . |
| 8 | However , she was prepared to give him the benefit of the doubt . |
| 9 | I 'm still prepared to give him the benefit of the doubt because he is a decent manager who knows the ropes and who has been there before . |
| 10 | I 'm , no , I 'm prepared to give him the benefit of the doubt for the moment . |
| 11 | Yes , but particularly with reference to John Major , I think he 's had an amazing honeymoon and people are prepared to give him the benefit of the doubt as you were about his quote treatment of women unquote , and I suspect that the media have been particularly sympathetic and wearing kid gloves with him , and I find that the role of the media is to probe and to pry and |
| 12 | He had honestly believed he could take the place of everything she had ever known if only she was willing to give him the chance . |
| 13 | do n't be afraid of P M you 're right there you 'll find do n't be afraid to give him the C C Q , it 's no big deal . |
| 14 | This gave him the opportunity to study Ballet , Pas de Deux , Repertoire , History of Ballet , Stagecraft and Lighting , and Ballet Music . |
| 15 | This gave him the idea of developing a method of switching on the fountain automatically , every time the pond was approached by a predator : easily achieved by adapting a passive infra-red detector . |
| 16 | All this gave him the confidence to state clearly what America 's interests were . |
| 17 | This gives him the chance to escape at night while The Count of Monte Cristo is on the radio . |
| 18 | If you happen to know that it is the Prime Minister personally who advises the Queen to dissolve Parliament , you will realise that this gives him the whip hand over other members of the Cabinet — who fear the cataclysm of an untimely election as much as back-benchers do . |
| 19 | So it 's an attempt on , on , on the second level to minutely reconstructing historical , the lost , the truest but what really happened and in that on that level , it 's important for Freud to establish that Moses was not Jewish but Egyptian , because this gives him the link with Egyptian monarchism and the events of the exodus and explains it as well . |
| 20 | This earned him the unusual distinction of being elected to a fellowship of the society at the age of twenty-five ( 1852 ) . |
| 21 | He might have saved her from Jem , but did that give him the right to such a ruthless inquisition ? |
| 22 | And because I was drunk and ca n't remember anything about my ordeal , does that give him the right to do what he did to me ? |
| 23 | It would be pointless to teach him the effect of the e-marker if he 's not clear about which symbols represent which sounds . |
| 24 | Centralizing revenue collection and publishing the empire 's accounts had won Reitern the respect of financial experts , but had not done much to earn him the applause of the community at large . |
| 25 | It would be easy to tell him the truth but that would mean throwing Dana to the wolves , and that she could n't do . |
| 26 | She loved him too much to tell him the truth . |
| 27 | These give him the right to buy the metal at a fixed — and , as it happens , attractively low — price . |
| 28 | Hands off : the splendid form of Dewi Morris ( left ) is likely to win him the nod as the second scrum-half in the British Lions ' squad , pushing Robert Jones out of the picture |
| 29 | We are some way from the context of the debate , but if the Minister really wants evidence of how appallingly badly the service is being delivered , I shall be extremely glad to send him the 20-page Tower Watch survey of Archway Tower social security office . |
| 30 | In the car on the return journey , clutching the row of books like a concertina , Mungo thanked him for the third time , promising to pay him the moment they got home . |