Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] him an " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reading of my Botanick Essays and the Experiments he has successfully made in pursuance of what I have advanced there has created in him an earnestness to correspond with me . |
| 2 | We may have had from him an attempt at Opposition fury , but , on occasion , he experienced pretty heavy weather in trying to make distinctions between his party and the Government on an issue on which , in essence , they agree . |
| 3 | In his first term he had to write for him an essay on the art of poetry . |
| 4 | When he exiled himself to Jersey , it was to surround himself with ‘ the sinister sheep of the sea ’ , ‘ the hydra-headed dragon ’ , which had become for him an image of the abyss , of fate , and of God . |
| 5 | After the fight with the beggars he had left the sack with Allen and Marian because it had seemed to him an ingenious way of saving himself the trouble of carrying it to Simon 's hut and back again while at the same time it was a guarantee that the children would remain until he returned . |
| 6 | In reply to a letter from Sheldon Vanauken , who , after his wife 's death , wrote to Lewis about their love which had remained for him an end in itself , Lewis replied : |
| 7 | E. C. Llewellyn , the Professor , was a rich , pleasant man , interested in linguistics , who had assembled around him an excellent team . |