Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] him a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Proconsul offers him a last-minute reprieve , however , if he will repent and swear by the genius of Caesar . |
| 2 | It transpires that the new tenant is Pris , one of the androids Deckard is hunting ( though John does not realise this until later in the story ) The presence of Pris excites him a great deal . |
| 3 | I 'm not a psychologist , but I read , and I would say that attitude gives him a colossal arrogance . |
| 4 | I mean you could use group investments , I mean what you did with the investment trusts gives him a better spread , |
| 5 | I butted in : ‘ But of course Martinez was right again — Harley starts to win and Martinez gets him a fat contract with Supersight . |
| 6 | Isabelle throws him a maternal gaze . |
| 7 | Joe can swerve a ball , but Fred gives him a few tips on spinning it , too — without picking the seam ! |
| 8 | GUIL throws him a second coin . ) |
| 9 | The magistrate gives him a three-week remand in custody . |
| 10 | His elegiac tempo for the largo of the Cello Sonata allows him a sustained outpouring of feeling . |
| 11 | The 24th grand prix win of his career gives him a commanding lead in the world championship . |
| 12 | His academic background in mechanical and electrical engineering gives him a sound grasp of a broad range of scientific disciplines . |
| 13 | Carlos Sainz 's victory for Toyota on the Rally of Portugal last week gives him a 13-point lead in the world championship . |
| 14 | His detached , even , and quite uncontroversial manner makes him a valuable auxiliary of liberal thought . ’ |
| 15 | Service on many government bodies and on committees as varied as the British Council and the National Theatre gives him a wide range of contacts and a knowledge of the workings of Whitehall . |
| 16 | The field officer 's sense of autonomy derives from the fact that being allocated to districts on a geographical basis designed around river catchments gives him a personal territorial jurisdiction over which he presides . |
| 17 | A Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society , Paul Damari has 25 years experience of the weather business , and his down-to-earth , common-sense approach makes him a welcome change to the distant and expensive alternative , the Met Office . |
| 18 | The golden touch : Australian lock John Eales — whose domination of the line-outs earned him the Man of the Series award — steals a march on Doddie Weir as Willie Ofahengaue lends him a helping hand … |
| 19 | Paul hands him a small glass . |
| 20 | Dad gives him a sweet every time he cries . |
| 21 | The following gem lands him a Fun Fortnight T-Shirt , and just to stop the pair of them falling out , we 'll give Billy a T-shirt too . |
| 22 | The following gem lands him a Fun Fortnight T-Shirt , and just to stop the pair of them falling out , we 'll give Billy a T-shirt too . |
| 23 | He was more than a little inclined to pomposity ( ‘ I am bound to speak in terms of high eulogium on the subject of Rouen 's literary reputation ’ ) , but his fussiness over detail makes him a useful informant . |