Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] him the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The right hon. and learned Gentleman nodded when I asked him the same question earlier , but he has not said how he will ensure fairness between schools and therefore , no discrimination against students with special needs . |
| 2 | God knows why — I made him the same way I made the rest of you — but there it is . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've known Francisco for years — I met him the first year I came here , when Monte Samana was brand new . ’ |
| 4 | But I told him the best publishers to try — the pink-ohs , you know . |
| 5 | ‘ I told him the first thing he has to do is establish who she is and where she comes from . ’ |
| 6 | And I told him the whole story of our voyage , and the danger we were now in . |
| 7 | I showed him the relevant page of my guide-book . |
| 8 | Yesterday I fed him the bony scraps from my reindeer stew and he is now mine for ever . |
| 9 | I loaned him the other $30 . |
| 10 | er goggle eyes at the Co-op , I saw him the other week |
| 11 | I saw him the other day and he said ah yo , have you , not leaking yet is it from that radiator ? |
| 12 | Clive practised his exercises diligently and , when I saw him the following week , he had mastered the breathing technique — although it still took a great deal of concentration on his part and was not something he did naturally . |
| 13 | I gave him the standard treatment and told him to come back immediately if he did n't get better . ’ |
| 14 | I gave him the same answer I gave you . ’ |
| 15 | The Sheriff asked me the same question and I gave him the same answer as I have you . ’ |
| 16 | I gave him the bad news without preamble . |
| 17 | He said afterwards that he had understood Terry had come out just to allow him to reach his goal , but it was an unfortunate end to a splendid innings , which made him the first English batsman since Barrington in 1967 to score three consecutive centuries in a series . |
| 18 | In 1861 Crookes made the discovery which brought him the necessary eminence ; he identified the new element thallium . |
| 19 | Within fifteen months he secured a reunited Conservative Party , which gave him the longest uninterrupted party premiership between Asquith and Attlee , the final reduction to a rump of the Liberal Party , and a brief , innocuous baptism of power for the Labour Party . |
| 20 | He was everything that the Hildebrandine Church abhorred , but he had virtues which won him the warm friendship of Marbod , the talented bishop of Rennes , and of the greatest canonist of his day , Ivo of Chartres . |
| 21 | She tried not to imagine his sympathetic brown eyes looking into hers , and his disarming smile when she spoke to him , perhaps their hands touching as she passed him the local anaesthetic — This is no use ! she admonished herself , rubbing energetically at a stainless steel trolley . |
| 22 | ‘ Which way ? ’ he asked , when at last the engine spluttered into life , and she directed him the wrong way round so that they might overtake and confront the trio lurching towards Midnight Mass . |
| 23 | Ginny wondered how he would react if she told him the simple truth . |
| 24 | She told him the first chance she had , when they had had tea and he was eating his lonely meal in the parlour . |
| 25 | As soon as he got home , the telephone was ringing and she told him the same thing many times . |
| 26 | ‘ I reckon she told him the youngest boy was his worked on him that way . |
| 27 | Edouard ordered her a citron pressé , and then quietly listened as — slowly at first , then with gathering confidence — she told him the whole story . |
| 28 | She handed him the two parts of the torch and waited for him to piece the thing together . |
| 29 | She handed him the long cane , and flinched when he swished it through the air to produce a vicious , menacing whistle . |
| 30 | She handed him the woebegone bouquet , the bird 's head dangling , its coxcomb a broken-stemmed blossom ; he took it , bowed his head , and pinched the child 's cheek as he showed his teeth gritted in greedy affection , the expression that says to children , ‘ Aahah ! |