Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] him a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somebody passes him a J but he just hands it on to me . |
| 2 | ‘ For Mr Hubbard its a hobby which costs him a lot of money . |
| 3 | Jonathan Speelman will be grateful for yesterday 's rest day , which gives him a chance to recover his equanimity after a depressing loss in the second game . |
| 4 | He is chairman of the IAEA 's Nuclear Safety Advisory Group , which gives him a pivotal role in co-ordinating the safety policies of all countries that have nuclear installations . |
| 5 | DEAN REYNOLDS , whitewashed by Steve Davis in the Rothmans Grand Prix final , made a break of 112 to clinch his 9-7 win over Tony Meo last night which gives him a return meeting with Davis in today 's quarter-final of the Everest World Matchplay Championship at the Brentwood Centre . |
| 6 | He has a special property in the goods , which gives him a lien over the goods until the whole of the price is paid or tendered . |
| 7 | One particularly interesting example is Kleinig 's conception of consent as ‘ an act in which one person tends to facilitate the initiative of another ’ in a manner which makes him a participant in that initiative who shares responsibility for it . |
| 8 | In the case of the discretionary sentence there is always a notional equivalent determinate sentence which could be imposed in accord with established sentencing practice but for the current mental state of the defendant which makes him a danger to the public . |
| 9 | He possesses the Spirit of God 's Son , which makes him a son of God , and enables him to utter the family cry to God as ‘ Abba ’ . |
| 10 | A student of mine in a Spenser class which read A Present View suggested it seemed peculiar to be reading a piece by an author commonly hailed as one of the great writers of the English Renaissance putting forward views which makes him a type of war criminal within a twentieth-century perspective . |
| 11 | In the United States and Europe they 've been much more appreciative , which saddens him a little . |
| 12 | Resource-based learning can last as little as ten minutes : a child 's scrutiny of a repeating film-loop which teaches him a concept or skill he will need for the next part of his programme ; a short programmed exercise that enables him to test his grasp of an idea or piece of knowledge before embarking on a larger exercise ; a work-card unit giving practise in loading a projector or using a subject catalogue . |
| 13 | In its final moments a sophisticated urbane man in a nightclub is led discreetly through a back door into a room which is a mortuary run by nuns , one of whom shows him a dead body drawn out of a wall on a slab . |
| 14 | and knit a jumper for Michael an'all , when Michael 's in she knits him a jumper , the jumper |
| 15 | ‘ She leads him a right dance , ’ the nans would say , during their daily exchange of news and analysis in the queue at the butcher 's , until finally she danced off for good and all and left him with his mother and his clapped-out BSA and his jars of Brylcreem and his collection of 78 records and a lifetime 's cumulation of unarticulated resentments . |
| 16 | Moses appeals to God , who shows him a shrub growing at the spot . |
| 17 | But she calls him a friend , and I have no objections . |
| 18 | I hope she gives him a right going over . ’ |
| 19 | She gives him a snack ( line 15 ) . |
| 20 | She gives him a tin of Coke ( line 32 ) . |
| 21 | She gives him a tight smile and wrinkles her nose . |
| 22 | She gives him a filthy look . |
| 23 | Anyone who gives him a flak jacket ( that is , consent ) may take it back , but the doctor only needs one and so long as he continues to have one he has the legal right to proceed . |
| 24 | The other one bullies him a bit |
| 25 | The creature is seen chasing two teenage boys — but all is saved when one tosses him a can of Pepsi . |
| 26 | Everything about him makes him a tricky subject . |
| 27 | Moreover , where a woman dares not register her non-consent because of a man 's violent or frightening behaviour , the law is permitting him to benefit from his own wrong if it grants him a defence on the basis of an honest but unreasonable belief in consent . |
| 28 | If Hong Kong ever does achieve democracy , it will owe Mr Lee a monument : for the time being , it owes him a holiday . |
| 29 | He 's declaring that he 's using a taxi and it costs him a hundred and sixty pound a month , every day back and forwards to work , well everyone knows that 's a lie cos she takes him to work |
| 30 | It affords him a wonderfully mellow role as a dying man reunited with his family in his beloved south of France in the last weeks of his life . |