Example sentences of "[vb past] him the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Mr Grover listened carefully as Paddington told him the story . |
| 32 | Mr Holmes says he reported the matter to the ferry company , and they told him the air conditioning was n't working . |
| 33 | The director of elections for SFWP , Gerry Doherty , told the Irish Times that a mining company representative told him the donation was made ‘ to help safeguard democracy and stop tyranny setting in ’ . |
| 34 | I told him the maps we should need , and he promised to have all the necessary Ordnance map sheets ready . |
| 35 | Mr Forbes said Ballantine told him the boy was dead and told him to phone the police . |
| 36 | I think Joe told him the name of his attackers , and it 's obviously someone … someone … " |
| 37 | Did n't know you , anything about you , and the only thing I can think of to explain it is that Maura , Donal 's sister , told him the name of the family I was looking for . |
| 38 | I know my father would raise a terrific stink if I told him the Headmistress had grabbed me by the hair and slung me over the playground fence . ’ |
| 39 | Local gallery owner John Rux-Burton , 33 , claims his grandfather told him the secret of Shingle Street before his death in 1974 . |
| 40 | Endill told him the plan so far , and they headed off to the sick bay , Mr Litmus taking his pile of notes with him . |
| 41 | He showed Mr Utterson the broken stick and told him the servant girl 's story . |
| 42 | I told him the history of the charts , my initial idea for a peephole of some sort . |
| 43 | He fired again , and felt the lesser kick which told him the ball had only lodged half-way down the barrel . |
| 44 | The treacherous four-footer he holed at the next told him the title was his . |
| 45 | I told him the credit authority number . |
| 46 | I told him the price when he ordered them |
| 47 | The court heard evidence from a Nicholas Moody who said the next day Mrs Handy told him the machine had stopped working . |
| 48 | I told him the love and character evident in that sofa was worth at least £50 . |
| 49 | and I told him the ones to see . |
| 50 | He listened while Gabriel told him the day 's events . |
| 51 | Mr Lytham , however , when he called at the nursing-home to obtain Dorothy 's signature to her will , was far from happy when his client told him the content of the letter . |
| 52 | I saw three movements and told him the Sonata would sound better if he made a very flashy last movement , but with content . |
| 53 | Arriving at the School with Jasper and Bienvida in a borrowed beat-up Ford van , its roofrack loaded with launderette bags of clothes and its inside with her sticks of furniture ( sticks was the word ) , she told him the advertisement would only attract riff-raff . |
| 54 | Ellie told him the truth . |
| 55 | When Topaz gave Lovat his answer she also told him the truth about her interlude with Andrew . |
| 56 | At least he knew I told him the truth . |
| 57 | Mid-level Immediately I told him the truth about it , ( he relented . ) |
| 58 | Imagine his face if she told him the truth : that , far from not liking him , she was labouring under this absurd fantasy that she loved him — for how else could she explain the turmoil that heaved inside her mind and body ? |
| 59 | She longed , oh , she burned to be able to tell him the truth , but Ace 's threats held ; also by the way Mike was looking at her at the moment he probably would n't believe her if she told him the truth about their relationship . |
| 60 | Would he listen to her when she told him the truth about Janice ? |