Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] him [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Better give him some money . |
| 2 | Reserve your answer for the cameras , or you may inadvertently give him more fuel for his theme . |
| 3 | I eventually got off the motorway and decided to drive straight to the hospital to see Toby , and paused only to buy him some fruit and a bottle of his favourite Bollinger . |
| 4 | Josh only gave him some whisky for his own good . |
| 5 | She did not answer him this time , but stared back at him almost insolently , only a slight moistening of her lips betraying her nervousness . |
| 6 | If they had not given him some food , he surely would have died like his mother . |
| 7 | It is understood doctors have not given him any timescale for the progress of the cancer . |
| 8 | But he is betting that the Department of Health will not prosecute him this time . |
| 9 | Her main motive had been simply her love for Jack , her desire to believe him , not to question him , not to cause him any pain , but to accept as fundamental that he must be happy . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's not done him any good , ’ said Big Nan , ‘ running away like that . ’ |
| 11 | Jasper , her elder brother , had refused from the first to dress up for this party and wore his school jeans and Western shirt , though school had not seen him that day . |
| 12 | I got him every time , until the end and I said I am not serving him this time ! |
| 13 | She would not give him that pleasure , she thought savagely . |
| 14 | Alexander asked if the doctor knew what that something was , but he could not give him any answer . |
| 15 | Did I just give him some money , I did n't did I ? |
| 16 | I might just give him another run — if only to keep the stable going ’ . |
| 17 | Tom Dreaper could not convince him that racing was a business to be taken seriously , and Foinavon had been sold for 2,000 guineas . |
| 18 | Speaking in a House of Commons debate on the Report of the Royal Commission on Capital Punishment in 1955 , Chuter Ede declared that his time as Home Secretary had not persuaded him either way of the arguments for or against deterrence . |
| 19 | and I think it 's just getting him that way , come on shall we put your |
| 20 | I suppose I 'd better not tell him that thing you said about his face looking as if it was carved out of corned beef . |
| 21 | So Dave will just get him some cigarettes or something . |
| 22 | Occhetto 's position on the Gulf war had meanwhile lost him some support among the social democratic wing of the party , led by Giorgio Napolitano . |
| 23 | He wonders whether anyone now has sympathy for the Shah or whether his vanity , his vainglory , his hectoring , his insensitivity his military obsessions , have not lost him all goodwill , at home and abroad . |
| 24 | Following a short interview about the further offence , the officer whom he had requested to see told him that he could not ask him any questions about the early offence for which he had already been charged but said that he could make a statement if he wished . |
| 25 | She had deliberately given him that impression simply because she had n't wanted to look lonely and pathetic in his eyes . |
| 26 | Someone once told him that horse manure in his wellington boots would make him grow taller , but the boys at school had made fun of him and Mr Sunderland , the headmaster , had called him a stupid gullible boy and made him scrape his boots and wash them clean in the outside drain and scrub his feet in hot water and carbolic soap . |
| 27 | She had hardly seen him all day . |
| 28 | in the summer I usually get him some trainers er cheap , the cheapest trainers anyway , but I mean yes it 's time he has them . |
| 29 | Astrid , who had once found him such fun , was fed up with his tinder temper . |
| 30 | the first time she had ever asked him that question . |