Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [verb] him an " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was an association that made him an appropriate keeper at Loseley of Montague 's imprisoned son-in-law Henry Wriothesley , second Earl of Southampton [ q.v. ] in 1570 . |
| 2 | In a world of single parents , almost all of them female , it is the relationship that the young man has with a solid male figure that gives him an edge and keeps him on the straight and narrow . |
| 3 | London Scottish sevens coach and former scrum-half Andy Cushing has been helping PORTUGAL in training and , without any doubt , in spite of a temperamental outburst from Pedro Neiva that earned him an early shower and a one-match suspension , it showed . |
| 4 | At the last moment , when the engine blew steam , she let down the window and handed him an envelope addressed to St Ives ; she looked at him with the eyes of one waking from a dangerous dream . |
| 5 | Herbert agreed to pay his passage and give him an allowance until he could find work . |
| 6 | She took him to the Science Museum and gave him an encyclopaedia , which explained how the internal combustion engine worked — ‘ I was intrigued immensely ’ . |
| 7 | With Dawson it was his bulk which undoubtedly contributed to his premature death along with his broad , rubber face that became his trademark and made him an ideal pantomime dame in true bawdy music hall tradition . |
| 8 | But his bulk , along with his broad , malleable face , was virtually his trademark and made him an ideal pantomime dame in the finest bawdy music hall tradition . |
| 9 | My father did n't think of it again till this German visited the shop and showed him an illustration . |
| 10 | It was he who lent Hardy the money to go to Paris : he who decided to take Hardy 's hopeful acting career under his wing and get him an audition with ‘ my father ’ down at the Cardiff studios , where Philip 's radio play gave him an entree . |
| 11 | If an adviser proposes to comment adversely upon the work of an individual teacher at a meeting he should inform the teacher and give him an opportunity to reply . |
| 12 | Up to the age of 39 he was one of that sad , nervous and obscure clan of people who scraped a living as a barrister while waiting for a distant relative to die and leave him an independent income . |
| 13 | Ball 's booking after a rash challenge on West Ham 's Stuart Slater , takes him over the 31 penalty point mark and earns him an automatic two-match ban . |
| 14 | He helped Willie into the back and threw him an old rug to cover himself with for he still looked terribly pale . |
| 15 | I picked up the phone and gave him an ear-bashing . ’ |
| 16 | Such stories would have made a lasting impression on my father and given him an early interest in Abyssinia . |
| 17 | Katja Müller blinked back her tears and shot him an angry glance . |
| 18 | Met Stetson and gave him an earful . |
| 19 | The man was elevated and screened-in like an auctioneer , to deter attack and to give him an overall view of every part of the shop . |
| 20 | She replaced the receiver and gave him an apologetic smile . |
| 21 | The camera swung again , but this time George looked above it , to a monitor screen hung on a metal rafter above the audience , to see his own face in close-up , the eyes staring upward in a way that gave him an absurdly soulful look . |
| 22 | cheeky so-and-so and to give him an audition and see what he was like — which I did — and was quite impressed . |
| 23 | She took Sigarup 's temperature and gave him an injection and some pills . |