Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] him a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has gathered about him a defecting company of slum boys , with one of whom , Bryant , of the distorted face , his hair done up in small Medusa pigtails , he sometimes makes love . |
| 2 | Maxwell Davies has written for him a 20-minute piece which makes full use of these strengths . |
| 3 | Seventhly , if within five years before his election or since his election he is convicted of an offence and has passed upon him a sentence of imprisonment ( whether suspended or not ) for a period of not less than three months without the option of a fine . |
| 4 | He has left behind him a flamboyant monument in Wellington church , Somerset , and the channel known as Popham 's Eau in Cambridgeshire , which was abandoned at his death in 1607 . |
| 5 | His first-class education , his wide experience of engineering around the world , combined with the speed and clarity of his mind , made conversing with him a delightful privilege . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'd talked to him a year ago — and we just kept in touch . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'd spoken to him a few times , ’ Avril recalls . |
| 8 | As Minton 's relationship with the Roberts deteriorated he began to gather round him a gang of male students at Camberwell who became known as ‘ Johnny 's Circus ’ . |
| 9 | Davide ran his finger over the knubbled ear , and it began to seem to him a charm to bring good luck , prosperity , the ease he hoped to find , if only he could leave for America . |
| 10 | I remember hearing about him a lot earlier , when an American film producer , Hal E. Chester , said to me , around the time Michael was making Two Left Feet , that he had seen ‘ a young James Stewart called Michael Crawford ’ and to watch out for him . ’ |
| 11 | Quite possibly another administration than a British one , less morally aspiring and less legally punctilious , would have arranged for him a quiet accident , or a fatal incarceration . |
| 12 | ‘ It shall be the duty of every director of a building society to satisfy himself that the arrangements made for assessing the adequacy of the security for any advance to be fully secured on land which is to be made by the society are such as may reasonably be expected to ensure that — ( a ) an assessment will be made on the occasion of each advance whether or not any previous assessment was made with a view to further advances or re-advances ; ( b ) each assessment will be made by a person holding office in or employed by the society who is competent to make the assessment and is not disqualified under this section from making it ; ( c ) each person making the assessment will have furnished to him a written report on the value of the land and any factors likely materially to affect its value made by a person who is competent to value , and is not disqualified under this section from making a report on , the land in question ; but the arrangements need not require each report to be made with a view to a particular assessment so long as it is adequate for the purpose of making the assessment . |
| 13 | Almost two centuries later it was being proposed that in much the same way every Spanish ambassador should have assigned to him a son or younger brother " to assist him as a comrade in his work " , be instructed in the conduct of embassy business and handle matters the ambassador himself could not spare time for , with the implication that he might well succeed to the post if it fell vacant . |
| 14 | This last appointment would have procured for him a secure income and a safe environment for life , had he remained in it . |
| 15 | Fuchs went to jail leaving behind him a world shocked and horrified by the prospect of atomic warfare . |
| 16 | It needed all the pride she possessed to turn to him a moment later , ashen-faced but in control . |
| 17 | ROS : Madam , it so fell out that certain players We o'erraught on the way : of these we told him And there did seem in him a kind of joy To hear of it . |
| 18 | In the editorial which he wrote for the last issue , he discussed the general political situation which had provoked in him a depression of spirit so different from anything he had experienced in the last fifty years as " to be a new emotion " ; but he also confessed to a feeling of staleness as editor . |
| 19 | So Coffin had to work on him a bit first to get him to think laterally . |
| 20 | As he approached tentatively , wanting to seem friendly but not to alarm her , she had turned on him a long and curious glance from remarkable , slanted , violet-blue eyes . |
| 21 | Mafouz , a tiny , pale , Egyptian boy , had said to him a week or so ago , ‘ Sir — I am not allowed television . |
| 22 | He had grown around him a shell because a shell was necessary . |
| 23 | I 've thought about him a great deal and have a plan he might find useful . |
| 24 | They had requested of him a single large living room , an ample eating room and ‘ no useless drawingroom ’ . |
| 25 | But the exercise of editing had become for him a mechanical one , and he was glad to be rid of it . |
| 26 | We 've experimented with him a bit over the years , and I think we 've got it about right now . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I 've spoken to him a few times and he 's the epitome of a true warrior . |
| 28 | Glynn also had stolen from him a purse containing £22 and a gold signet ring . |
| 29 | So the missionary had to try to take the place of the doctor and the nurse , and had to keep with him a stock of basic medicines — iodine , castor oil , Epsom salts , santonin ( for worms ) , quinine tablets for malaria , and a plentiful supply of aspirin in which the village people seemed to have a great faith . |
| 30 | £pound1 , 000 had seemed to him a pretty sum on which to " have a union of his own , manipulated by himself , despite the fact that in refusing to hand over the money to Head Office , he was bringing great hardship to the men in other ports still on strike , and to their families . |