Example sentences of "[vb past] him his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His wife , an Italian American girl , bore him his handicapped daughter Tiffany , now 25 , and his only child . |
| 2 | The Leeds striker 's world fell apart when a hamstring injury cost him his first-ever place in a senior England squad in Spain tomorrow . |
| 3 | Dickins , a £200,000 signing from Lincoln on transfer deadline day , owed his debut to the thigh injury to Bobby Mimms , which cost him his ever-present record . |
| 4 | She set up a bedside vigil , had special drugs imported from Germany , played him his favourite music and discouraged everyone else from visiting , including his own children . |
| 5 | They told him his usual fee of $150,000 was too high . |
| 6 | But the careers office told him his poor sight ruled him out , a Winchester inquest heard yesterday . |
| 7 | He summoned Chamberlain to see him again first thing the next morning and told him his new plan . |
| 8 | He pushed through the door of the Deputy Chief of Staff , who at that time was General Neil Ritchie , and handed him his pencil-written memorandum . |
| 9 | Now simply efficient , she finished dressing him , put him into his cot and handed him his final bottle of milk of the day . |
| 10 | Grant handed him his personal transceiver to clip on to Delaney 's webbing . |
| 11 | Lopez gave him a kitchen towel so that he could wipe himself up with , handed him his discarded clothes and sent him on his way via the Hippodrome 's back door . |
| 12 | Lambert showed him his left shoulder . |
| 13 | It was Mrs Robinson who served him his late breakfast and it took no more than the tapping of an eggshell to discover from that guileless woman that her husband had gone down to Lorton with goats ' cheese and potted char for the market men who called there on a Thursday . |
| 14 | During the previous three years , Crawford had written hundreds of letters to producers and directors in his search for work , but it was his love of cycling — he sometimes rode from South London to Brighton and back in a day that landed him his first work in repertory theatre . |
| 15 | His adoptive father lent him his old Kershaw 450 bellows camera and six weeks into the job Clayton admits he fluked his first page one picture . |
| 16 | The only witnesses had been Sarah 's stepmother , and an ecclesiastic colleague who envied him his good fortune . |
| 17 | It had been Kurt who had set up the dozens of licensing deals for menswear and toiletries , bedlinen and beachwear , soft furnishings and costume jewellery , all bearing the name of Hugo Varna , which had not only saved him from bankruptcy but also made him his first million . |
| 18 | His mother was a niece of his father , and young Frank claimed this relationship made him his own great-uncle . |
| 19 | The Navy may have given him an air of commanding responsibility , but it was his year running the Queen 's Silver Jubilee Appeal in 1977 that finally made him his own man , and not his father 's son . |
| 20 | In the early part of the first coalition he was rather anti-Lloyd George and pro-Asquith , but by December 1916 he was ready for a change and accepted the pro-Lloyd George lead of Bonar Law , who had a little hesitantly made him his parliamentary private secretary a few months before . |
| 21 | In January 1629 the king knighted Vermuyden at Whitehall , and a month later he sold him his royal manor of Hatfield for £10,000 cash down and an annual interest of £195. 3s. 5d. and a red rose . |
| 22 | At the time we first met him his limited confidence in himself had been further undermined by June Braithwaite 's derision of his way of ‘ going on ’ . |
| 23 | In 1969 he had been made assistant secretary to the Diocesan Schools Commission , becoming principal secretary three years later , he also became a member of the Finance Commission , and then in 1972 Bishop Wheeler appointed him his personal private secretary at Bishop 's House . |
| 24 | A right-wing corner by the left-footed Preece was met so powerfully by James that the young full-back could be proud of the header which brought him his first goal of the season … |
| 25 | One film , however , Now Barabbas Was A Robber , directed by Gordon Parry from the play by William Douglas Home , brought him his best review yet from the finest film critic of her day , C. A. Lejeune , in The Observer . |
| 26 | He reminded himself to ask one of the guards when they brought him his next meal … |
| 27 | It was n't classical music that brought him his widest audience , but musicals like ‘ On the Town ’ , ‘ Candide ’ and ‘ West Side Story ’ . |
| 28 | The technique , which he published , was quite complicated , and he described in his book how he was on the point of making a rotary machine to do it all automatically , when William Nicholson [ q.v. ] sent him his own version , which performed very well . |
| 29 | He 's become better known as a zoologist , but has n't forgotten it was Swindon that offered him his first exhibition . |
| 30 | When Grimsby offered him his first trial with a Football League club , he gave away a penalty after two minutes . |