Example sentences of "[vb -s] him the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet when Cornwall pronounces him the new Earl of Gloucester , and orders him to seek his father out , Edmund has yet another layer of pretence at hand : Edmund 's perversion of such words as ‘ nature ’ , ‘ loyalty ’ , and ‘ blood ’ is grimly evident to us , but not to Cornwall — who may not understand those terms , in any case — and who now puts himself into the position of an adopted father to Edmund : ‘ I will lay trust upon thee ; and thou shalt find a dearer father in my love ’ ( 24f . ) . |
| 2 | a Chinese girl she 's living in it , in a kind of a real dive of loft thing to do her art and she gives him the odd painting instead of paying rent . |
| 3 | The best preserved of all , beautiful and often illustrated , shows Herakles supporting the sky while Atlas brings him the golden apples and Athena prepares to help them exchange roles.93 This comes from the east end and conforms strictly to pattern : figures ranged against the flat ground , in simple postures , frontal or profile . |
| 4 | McLaren is , in Roxburgh 's estimation , ‘ an old man in his head ’ , which makes him the temperamental opposite of Ferguson . |
| 5 | But it 's big Jack 's capacity for making folk laugh — often quite unintentionally — that makes him the great character he is . |
| 6 | Instead of the usual embarrassed note next morning , she leaves him the fragmentary manuscript of Rory 's own Crow Road : a folder of gnomic jottings and descriptions that represents a more substantial legacy than his father 's . |