Example sentences of "[vb past] him some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He pulled the knot on the belt , then re-tied it , tighter , as if the gesture afforded him some feeling of protection . |
| 2 | Even Philip Corder felt inhibited by this evidence , although there was one sherd in this group ( no. 141 ) which caused him some concern , being obviously a Signal Station type , which should have belonged to the end of the fourth century ! |
| 3 | When his Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides appeared , Boswell 's reflections caused him some trouble , including threats of actual bodily harm from people he mentioned . |
| 4 | I undid my thermos and poured him some milk . |
| 5 | Chola fetched him some tobacco and a parcel of turmeric . |
| 6 | Sensing that Bertin was an art-lover , Zbo showed him some paintings and made a sale . |
| 7 | Thomas Huxley , the great biologist , whose household was dominated by a long series of cats over a period of forty years , described how one of them , a young tabby tom-cat , developed the alarming game of jumping on the shoulders of his dinner-guests and refusing to dismount until they fed him some titbit . |
| 8 | ‘ I followed him some way behind . ’ |
| 9 | I believed I owed him some debt . |
| 10 | It seemed to me I owed him some explanation . |
| 11 | Well I did a quick trip to our Arthur 's cos I lent him some money today . |
| 12 | Chapman & Hall made him some compensation through extra payments for Pickwick Papers and Nicholas Nickleby , and by making loans and advances . |
| 13 | I made him some tea and supper while he bathed and changed and unpacked his things in my bedroom . |
| 14 | One may guess at the Spaniard 's dismay when Moctezuma passed him some lumps of greenstone enjoining him to hand them to none other than his prince . |
| 15 | This task was for him somewhat infra dig , but until Burden and Sergeant Martin brought him some information he had little else to do , and this way he could , at any rate , be certain it was well done . |
| 16 | He had inadequate funds to go abroad but a relative advanced him some money and off he went in 1935 . |
| 17 | Although Burn began his career as executant architect for Smirke 's Kinmount ( 1811–12 ) , a huge assemblage of Ledoux-like interpenetrating masses , it took him some years to dislodge Gillespie Graham and the London architect William Atkinson from their places as Scotland 's leading country house architects . |
| 18 | It took him some time to convince them , apparently . ’ |
| 19 | It took him some time to arrive , only tentatively at first , at the conclusion that the hard , rectangular shape of the dining table could have played some part . |
| 20 | It took him some time to sleep . |
| 21 | And the guy did it as well , sent him some business . |
| 22 | Incidentally , he never did baptise my breast with Mississippi water ; the only time a bottle passed between us was when I sent him some Taburel water to stop his hair falling out . |
| 23 | I sent him some wine , the best of last year 's grapes from Bordeaux , a silver dish of sweet comfits and some marchpane . ’ |
| 24 | Hayling had seemed unusually pleased to see him and offered him some champagne . |
| 25 | Mrs Corney offered him some tea . |
| 26 | Benny usually went home around four-thirty unless the boss offered him some overtime , and Joe Maitland had not arrived back from his buying trip . |
| 27 | Next night he fancied a bit of fresh salmon and as he only had two days to live , she rushed out and bought him some salmon . |
| 28 | I saved him some chips . ’ |
| 29 | That night he slept in an old cardboard box that he 'd found , and that gave him some protection from the chilling morning dew . |
| 30 | And while relief surged through her that this kind stranger was , by the look of it , offering to give her a lift back to her hotel , he turned to the mechanic , gave him some instruction and , turning back , informed her , ‘ They 'll get the part as quickly as they can , but in the meantime we will have to leave your vehicle here . ’ |