Example sentences of "[vb past] him a [det] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I told him a few home truths , but it was a waste of breath , there was nothing I could do . ’ |
2 | This thought , too , caused him a few moments of depression before it was drowned by feelings of tranquil pleasure . |
3 | Theodora allowed him a few moments and then she said , gently , ‘ There is , is there not , one further element ? |
4 | Archie joined him a few seconds later , closing the door behind him . |
5 | I heard him a few times , he was very very entertaining , very entertaining , nice bloke really . |
6 | Balham-born Akram , who is studying for his A-levels , got the stage bug at the age of three when his mother taught him a few classical Indian dance steps . |
7 | Like I 've him at , watched him a few times , she goes , get off he says , what |
8 | Eleanor rang him a few days later and he was remarkably cool . |
9 | It was another of those things , like the green car , which made him a less than perfect Moslem . |
10 | She met him a few days after she started the job . |
11 | Endill was thrown to the ground and it took him a few minutes to realise what had happened . |
12 | The sea was such a mess that it took him a few moments to be sure of the reef . |
13 | It took him a few minutes to find a public phone booth . |
14 | There was a second voice — sharp , abrasive — and it took him a few moments to identify the second voice as belonging to Jane , the maid . |
15 | O' course , I only knew him a few years after he got married . |
16 | There do exist two or three letters from Christabel to Hearst — she even sent him a few poems in one , which he kept , fortunately for us . |
17 | He has received a letter from one of the farmers which I sent him a few days ago . |
18 | I saw him a few times more , but never alone , I wrote him two letters when I was in Spain , and he sent a postcard back . |
19 | I saw him a few weeks ago . |
20 | I saw him a few times more after that , in the months that followed , coming slowly up the lane from the station , as Millie and I stood at the gate . |
21 | I only saw him a few times and he seemed to wander around in no-man 's land half the time doing bugger all . |
22 | Crossing to the bed , she put a hand behind Lucien 's head , raised it , and offered him a few sips of water from a rough ceramic bowl . |
23 | Ten days on the ocean gave him a few chances to visit the cabins of single women , but until they arrived in New York , there were no places to escape once the liaison ended , however passionately , half-heartedly , or ephemerally it had begun . |
24 | She kept a pretty green budgerigar called Peter , who once dropped dead in his cage but came back to life when Nanny gave him a few drops of gin squeezed from a wad of cotton-wool . |
25 | Patrick guessed he was bringing a tray into the sitting room , which gave him a few moments . |
26 | I gave him a few of the arsenical tablets I had used in my only cure . |
27 | It hardly made him a frequent visitor , but it gave him a few numbers to ring . |
28 | She gave him a few things , all invented , and watched as he jotted some notes in the ledger . |
29 | After that I got us on to less dangerous ground , and I gave him a few tit-bits of intelligence , which was probably what he 'd been after . |
30 | Gould wrote , though , to prince , and gave him a few rare but welcome words of encouragement and recognition for all his trouble . |