Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] him [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But wanting only frustrated him more . |
| 2 | Better give him some money . |
| 3 | Reserve your answer for the cameras , or you may inadvertently give him more fuel for his theme . |
| 4 | I erm , I think it 's worth correcting some of the financial mistakes again , that Mr , and then perhaps give him some more facts on that . |
| 5 | I eventually got off the motorway and decided to drive straight to the hospital to see Toby , and paused only to buy him some fruit and a bottle of his favourite Bollinger . |
| 6 | In any piece of fiction there must be room for the reader — room for him to jump at a suggestion , to insert himself into a story , to respond to hints and clues : to be told what is offered to him is to encourage him to read passively and so to give him less than he deserves . |
| 7 | When he had learnt that Miss Alicia Lockwood , whom he considered one of the most charming and fascinating old dears he had ever met , had been mad enough to leave him half her beautiful and fantastic house , for one wild and quixotic moment Matthew had thought of refusing the legacy . |
| 8 | But she only loved him more . |
| 9 | It only took him another four years to feel the same way . |
| 10 | On his way home from college , he had managed to slip into the bookshop and grab a few quick words with Joe on the pretext of asking for a book , but the small , stout man could only tell him more or less what he already knew . |
| 11 | Josh only gave him some whisky for his own good . |
| 12 | He told him how much of his pay he had saved up for today , how he would personally kick him all the way back to Newmarket if he did n't win , how he was a big beautiful bastard that could n't fucking lose , could he ? |
| 13 | But he 's that Doctor , he says , er just show him that wee tracer , and he 'll know , but |
| 14 | Did I just give him some money , I did n't did I ? |
| 15 | I might just give him another run — if only to keep the stable going ’ . |
| 16 | and I think it 's just getting him that way , come on shall we put your |
| 17 | But she could scarcely tell him that . |
| 18 | I would just tell him this that er there is a problem here which my Right Honourable Friend is addressing and depending on the outcome of those consultations and discussions , will obviously depend the action which we will have to take . |
| 19 | So Dave will just get him some cigarettes or something . |
| 20 | Occhetto 's position on the Gulf war had meanwhile lost him some support among the social democratic wing of the party , led by Giorgio Napolitano . |
| 21 | But they would n't come just to tell him that either . |
| 22 | She had deliberately given him that impression simply because she had n't wanted to look lonely and pathetic in his eyes . |
| 23 | ‘ Oh , I can , ’ he said as I finished my meal and leaned back , wiping my mouth on the back of my hand , more to annoy him that anything else . |
| 24 | Someone once told him that horse manure in his wellington boots would make him grow taller , but the boys at school had made fun of him and Mr Sunderland , the headmaster , had called him a stupid gullible boy and made him scrape his boots and wash them clean in the outside drain and scrub his feet in hot water and carbolic soap . |
| 25 | She had hardly seen him all day . |
| 26 | ‘ And these days you 're always together , she hardly ever sees him any more — ’ |
| 27 | Now they keep saying , mummy you always give him more than you give us ! |
| 28 | in the summer I usually get him some trainers er cheap , the cheapest trainers anyway , but I mean yes it 's time he has them . |
| 29 | I always tell him that . |
| 30 | They were great friends — there were three of them : Uncle , Gifford Tate , and Papa Burger-I do n't know why ‘ papa ’ but they always called him that . |