Example sentences of "him their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reformists , closet-reformists and non-party intellectuals gathered in his home , feeding him their ideas and plotting against hardliners . |
| 2 | If only they knew that to him their revelations were but bricks in the house he was trying to build , rungs on the ladder of discovery , twisted curve-edged pieces in the current puzzle ! |
| 3 | As for the supposedly devastating impact of the John Major Diary in Private Eye , of which I am also a co-author , I can only say that , despite the article 's prediction , it did not seem to stand in the way of a gratifying number of people giving him their enthusiastic support on Thursday — including myself . |
| 4 | That lunchtime they had told him their research was complete , but they had a day spare and were enjoying themselves . |
| 5 | To be like other people : gardening at the weekend , scent of freshly-mown grass , children playing on the lawn ; wife in a cotton dress , long-legged , her smile sharing with him their private memories , future secured . |
| 6 | They went to Drew 's lodging and told him their suspicions . |
| 7 | The man was Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte ; the many were that section of the French people who , newly enfranchised in 1848 , gave him their votes and made him first their president and then their emperor . |
| 8 | Nothing could have quicker distanced him from the Pommie chairman or won him their attention so soon . |
| 9 | But they gave him their support , none the less , and the first issue , containing political reports , original essays , poetry , and reviews , was announced for the beginning of March , the aim of the publication being , as Coleridge modestly explained , ‘ to proclaim the State of the Political Atmosphere , and preserve Freedom and her Friends from the attacks of Robbers and Assassins ! ! ’ |
| 10 | They agreed to this and even gave him their headed notepaper to use in ordering . |
| 11 | More perceptively , Lloyd Shearer in Parade wrote , ‘ With his short stature , hook nose , beady eyes , unkempt hair , he looks like a loser , and it is precisely because of that loser image that the younger generation have made him their winner . ’ |
| 12 | Players hide the studs from referees by showing him their reserve pair — complete with regulation studs — and them quickly switch before the game . |
| 13 | Give him their oaths of fealty — God damn him ! |
| 14 | He proceeds to mooch about in a hang-dog way until he runs across his younger brother , quiet student Dennis ( William Sage ) who informs him their long-lost father has just been arrested for bombing the Pentagon 20 years previously . |
| 15 | The day after doctors gave him their cautious opinion Roy gave away prizes for yet another cancer research fund-raising effort . |
| 16 | Mellor was 30 when the voters of Putney in West London elected him their Tory MP in 1979 — the election that swept Margaret Thatcher to power . |
| 17 | Sharpe , now hoping to put his nightmare behind him , told how he froze when doctors gave him their devastating diagnosis . |
| 18 | The files told him their story — a tale of rare incompetence and of opportunity for him . |
| 19 | Some gave him their answer at the door , others invited him inside and sat him down to ask his question . |
| 20 | Some gave him their life history , then came round to saying that they were in bed , in the back of the villa , in the bath , already gone to work . |
| 21 | Thus , he argued , when Henry VIII quarrelled with the pope over his marriage , he was able to use a pre-existing anti-clericalism as a stick with which to beat the church , and when he subsequently embarked on the official Reformation , the greater part of the political nation readily gave him their support . |
| 22 | In 1965 Anthony Crossland , the Labour Secretary of State for Education , issued Circular 10/65 which requested those local authorities which had not already done so to submit to him their proposals for the reorganisation of their secondary schools along comprehensive lines . |
| 23 | In 1980 they made him their candidate for chancellor . |
| 24 | Those who refused him their recognition were deprived of their lands and forced into a form of internal exile within France , into that area which the Valois ruled . |
| 25 | A further complication was the undertaking given by Henry V that he would use every means at his disposal to bring under his control those extensive areas of France not yet according him their allegiance , an ambitious military plan which , it could be argued , was beyond his financial and military capabilities . |
| 26 | The mutual understanding is that they give him their votes , and he gives them his services , always seeking to prove that he is at the very least as obliging and as diligent as the other " TDs and would-be TDs in his constituency . |
| 27 | He did not recognize the other two rabbits and when Blackberry told him their names — Speedwell and Acorn — he was none the wiser . |
| 28 | So he knew that if he instructed Marshalls to act for him they would charge him their normal fees for their work . |
| 29 | The Commission affirms , therefore , that music in worship is not an extravagance but a necessity if people are to receive the special blessings which God gives through it , and if they are to offer to him their best and their most . |
| 30 | He went to Bathsheba 's house , where the maids told him their mistress was watching the sheep-washing . |