Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] him the [adj -est] " in BNC.

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1 And his mum Sherie has promised him the best one ever .
2 Asked what has caused him the greatest difficulties as Prime Minister , Harold Macmillan is said to have replied : ‘ Events , my dear , events . ’
3 Loss of manuscripts or illustrations seem to cause him the greatest concern .
4 They may not have made him the finest British light comedian since his hero David Niven , but at least they rescued him from an uncertain future in Britain where he may have ended up as a cross between Roy Castle and Ronnie Corbett .
5 She was less close to Gildas , whom she regarded with some slight awe , for she feared his irony and his sharp tongue , and would not have allowed him the slightest ‘ liberty ’ had he not cleverly , for he was very clever , ‘ set up , a conversation which led her , through a series of exchanges , into the danger area .
6 He wants to know what the job of a Euro MP is , well he is applying for a Euro seat , I do wish him the best of luck and when he 's been there
7 Johnny was surely the " Billy Bishop Canadian " of World War 2 : only the war ending when it did denied him the highest award .
8 His long experience of bird watching in the hills of Arran had taught him the best vantage points .
9 We 've offered him the best contract we could give him
10 I had thought him the luckiest man on the FAKOUM Central Committee .
11 Then he smiled , and it was as it she had told him the best news there was to tell ; and when she thought about it , she supposed that she had .
12 But Mr Norman Bell , who drives the No 8 United bus between Barnard Castle and Bishop Auckland , was called in to learn a survey had found him the friendliest bus driver in Britain .
13 Even five years later a clergyman who came to a retreat which he conducted thought him the oddest sight , sartorially , which he had seen among academics .
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