Example sentences of "[v-ing] him the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fear , attraction , dismay , and total confusion : she had experienced them all since meeting him the previous day . |
| 2 | The words were leading him the wrong way . |
| 3 | Smart had always attracted friends , and they served him well now , securing him the necessary recommendation to St Luke 's by a bookseller , perhaps a connection of Newbery 's , who had become a banker , probably one of the bankers who formed a majority of the Governors of St Luke 's . |
| 4 | It would be a tragic error to buy this man out of Kuwait by awarding him the starring role in Arab dealings with Israel . |
| 5 | It seemed to be testing him the whole time . |
| 6 | She 's got that unappetizing little Yank in tow , and she 's feeding him the Authorized Version . |
| 7 | For instance , I wanted to feed him on the baby food in jars and I keep telling her I do , but I end up feeding him the powdered food like my mum wants . |
| 8 | It 's probably only that old quack Hardacre feeding him the wrong antibiotics — Agnes shared George 's view of Sir Frank ‘ — but if each course takes five days before they decide it is n't working , it can run on . |
| 9 | I did not see the value in teaching him the English equivalents of these words , and merely reminded him to talk in English . |
| 10 | IF the man in your life is bored with socks , scarves and slippers , how about buying him the ultimate shirt for Christmas ? |
| 11 | Riding him the next day , it was as if the handbrake had come off . |
| 12 | These plans will be costed , giving him the best possible chance to make an effective case . |
| 13 | By evading him earlier that morning she 'd played into his hands , at the same time both increasing his suspicions and giving him the best part of the day to allay them . |
| 14 | His creator had fashioned him from clockwork and set him to go through the motions of living without giving him the actual breath of life . |
| 15 | ‘ Here , ’ said Mrs Wright , giving him the front door key . |
| 16 | ‘ Bowe has always said that I am the man he wants more than anybody and now that I am giving him the perfect opportunity , he is shying away from it . |
| 17 | I also suggested that they off Ollie his own warm secure bed downstairs , or at least out of the bedroom , to avoid giving him the ultimate rank-defining liberty of sleeping with the real top dogs . |
| 18 | He was all the more determined to appear in control because his father-in-law was giving him the half-amused , half-pitying look , which Hugh interpreted as ‘ I know you 're sorry you 've got to put up with me . |
| 19 | The atmosphere in this dark room was oddly disquieting , giving him the distinct impression that he was not alone . |
| 20 | So , Himmler was giving him the same powers as he had given Max Radl for Operation Eagle . |
| 21 | Harvey said , ‘ Yes , ’ very briefly , and handed it over before giving him the little 6.35-mm . |
| 22 | She stopped in front of him , leaning forward confidentially and giving him the full benefit of the satin décolletage . |
| 23 | ( 2 ) Provide the Chairman with a note for each item of business , giving him the previous history of the discussion and indicating not the decision but at least the possible decisions that might emerge from the current meeting . |
| 24 | So far I 'd managed to avoid giving him the exact address , but now he asked for it with a determined note in his voice — " Just in case I 'm down that way " and I was forced to invent one , praying that he 'd never check up on it . |
| 25 | His Quaker wife , the famous prison reformer Elizabeth Fry , felt members of her own family were also giving him the cold shoulder when they heard he was being ‘ investigated ’ by the Ratcliff and Barking monthly meeting . |
| 26 | By the middle of February , when the Shah had been in Morocco more than a month , it had become common gossip in the diplomatic corps that Hassan was giving him the cold shoulder . |
| 27 | I have another seven days before Jens 's cousin arrives from the States and finds his would-be protégé has been seduced into giving him the cold shoulder . ’ |
| 28 | Dumas grew jealous of the workmanship and insisted on the Bey lending him the best craftsmen , saying ‘ you need that room only after your death , but I need your craftsmen while I am alive ’ . |
| 29 | Even his leather jacket is a pigment-free garment , lending him the ghostly appearance of a rockin' Marty Hopkirk , deceased . |
| 30 | There was an element of choice in Sukarno 's arrest ; he could have escaped into the surrounding countryside , but he awaited capture , perhaps calculating that in arresting him the Dutch were outraging international opinion . |