Example sentences of "[vb -s] him the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he does not declare an intention to defend the action or make an offer , the second date , known as the calling date , is the date on which the claimant can ask for a Decree from the court declaring that the debtor owes him the sum sued for . |
| 2 | Similarly in He loves her ; She loves him the form he is replaced by him after loves , while her becomes she after loves . |
| 3 | He is firmly established in the half back line , which allows him the luxury of being able to press forward in support of his attacking colleagues . |
| 4 | Finally , B would fail to comply with the maxim of Manner , enjoining clarity of purpose , if , when A needs a bolt of size 8 , B passes him the bolt in a box that usually contains bolts of size Jo . |
| 5 | In what seems a somewhat specious argument , she urges Leo to bathe with her in the fire so that their mortal sins may be purged : but although the fire at first seems to do her no harm as she shows him the way into it , the self-seeking nature of her love becomes evident as her ageless beauty is destroyed : |
| 6 | and she er she said what and she said oh well I do n't think I 'll phone Graham but if Maxine shows him the paper , she said I reckon he 'll phone them because er , it did say , I think in the paper that the , that she said they 're letting everybody know |
| 7 | I do n't pay them too much attention cos I 'm busy , but I think Marie shows him the letter she got this morning . |
| 8 | Carmichael hands him the paper . |
| 9 | Bob calls him the murderer ! |
| 10 | Sweet and Quine both played guitar for Lloyd Cole back in 1990 — Sweet live , and Quine live and on the record — but while Lloyd Cole kept Quine on a leash , refining his parts and cutting and reconstructing his solos , Sweet just tosses him the keys and lets him rip . |
| 11 | Vic Brown in John Schlesinger 's A Kind of Loving ( 1962 ) settles for telly-watching inanity within marriage , while Billy Liar in the same director 's 1963 film turns away from the girl who offers him the chance to fulfil his ambitions in London . |
| 12 | The escape from France described in Flying Colours offers him the chance of the kind of swift , concrete description in which he excels but too often the pace slackens overmuch as Hornblower 's emotions are analysed with an almost sentimental thoroughness . |
| 13 | And he tells him the story and he goes and the man threw me out of the taxi . |
| 14 | She will not hear of it and tells him the summer will restore her to her full strength , a story you have heard before and will not believe any more than I do . |
| 15 | Lord Salmon gave as an example two instances of the valuation of a picture , the first for a client who does not tell him the reason for the valuation , and the second where the client tells him the valuation is needed because he is about to sell the picture to a friend . |
| 16 | PETER HORBURY takes the telephone receiver and the operator tells him the police and ambulance are on their way . |
| 17 | Inside the little shop , a doleful Asian youth wearing finger mittens , walled in behind racks of cheap digital watches , ballpoint pens , sweets , and music cassettes , shakes his head and shrugs when she asks him the name of the street . |
| 18 | She reads him the story of the Gadarene swine , the novel 's Epigraph . |
| 19 | Shakespeare permits him the dignity of verse , showing that the gulled and cured vain man nevertheless deserves some sympathy . |
| 20 | If you happen to know that it is the Prime Minister personally who advises the Queen to dissolve Parliament , you will realise that this gives him the whip hand over other members of the Cabinet — who fear the cataclysm of an untimely election as much as back-benchers do . |
| 21 | That gives him the space to make long-term bets , but also deprives him of advice against short-sightedness : borrowing sums that he can service only so long as the good times roll . |
| 22 | Then the understudy goes through agonies of indecision before the Company Manager gives him the order to get into costume and makeup . |
| 23 | He has natural flair which gives him the ability to do anything with the ball he wants to . |
| 24 | It gives him the ability to check the validity of his design by checking the spatial relationships between assembled components . |
| 25 | Similarly , since most men like to be seen to do the paying it is a tactful precaution if , at the start of the evening out , she gives him the theatre tickets " to take care of " … |
| 26 | On its release in Britain , the Daily Worker described it as ‘ the first genuine ‘ mod ’ film of the British cinema' and the Sunday Express declared that ‘ its real jewels are the shining performances of Michael Crawford , as the gauche youth , and Miss Tushingham , as the girl who gives him the knowledge . |
| 27 | So it 's an attempt on , on , on the second level to minutely reconstructing historical , the lost , the truest but what really happened and in that on that level , it 's important for Freud to establish that Moses was not Jewish but Egyptian , because this gives him the link with Egyptian monarchism and the events of the exodus and explains it as well . |
| 28 | This at least gives him the freedom to go out for air and to do errands such as visiting local shops or going to the hairdresser . |
| 29 | Singleton has an astonishing three year deal with Columbia that gives him the freedom to make as many films as he can in that time . |
| 30 | This gives him the chance to escape at night while The Count of Monte Cristo is on the radio . |