Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] him a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he discovers the bar owner doubles up as the town sheriff and that gunman Lyle has just given him a lift . |
| 2 | His defiance of Uncle Sam has even earned him a grudging respect . |
| 3 | he has two sons and two daughters , one of whom has recently made him a grandad and , although he confesses to still having the odd game of cricket , his main pastime nowadays is deep-sea fishing . |
| 4 | Of all the people in the world to expose her seething mass of fears and insecurities to , Guy Sterne would have been her last choice … yet she 'd told him about Mortimer , she 'd carelessly made him a gift of her virginity , she 'd wildly announced she loved him , and now she was baring her soul over the painful anguish of her mother 's death … |
| 5 | Perhaps you 'd better give him a pop over hurdles tomorrow . ’ |
| 6 | when he gets , when daddy comes home you 'd better give him a big cuddle and ask him |
| 7 | She 'd only met him a few times , but it had been easy for Julie to see that Ross Wyndham was even more Leo-like than his wife . |
| 8 | She 'd only known him a few hours yet every cell of her body seemed sensitised to his presence . |
| 9 | Constant change was worse still ; in the words of one satirist , the scandal of the player was not so much that he disguised his real self in playing ; rather he had no self apart from that which he was playing : ‘ The Statute hath done wisely to acknowledge him a Rogue and errant , tor his chiefe essence is , A daily Counterfeit … |
| 10 | The whole plane was full and Nick had done well to get him a seat at all . |
| 11 | Unlike the Beggar , the friend does return once , looks over Hoccleve 's work ( a translation from the Gesta Romanorum ) , and goes home to fetch him a better copy , including the moralising of the tale which Hoccleve 's copy lacks , and which he immediately begins to translate . |
| 12 | She turned slowly to give him a long , searching look and decided he must have become expert at keeping his emotions on a tight rein . |
| 13 | The bridge party duly clubbed together to buy him a dinner jacket . |
| 14 | When the householders learned that the completion of the contract marked the start of Ron 's retirement after 35 years , they clubbed together to buy him a carriage clock and bottle of whisky as a thank you gift to remember them by . |
| 15 | ‘ UNCLE ! ’ she squealed , and rushed over to give him a big hug . |
| 16 | She decided not to offer him a gin and tonic before his performance . |
| 17 | Davide caught his start when she leant over to give him a clean plate , how he set his chair straight and then , after a falter , flowed on , hammering the air with his clenched hands as he made his points , as if determined not to notice her . |
| 18 | ‘ Young 'un , ’ he 'd say , and she 'd go off to make him a cup of tea . |
| 19 | She fought hard to get him a part-time playgroup place in the group his older brother attended . |
| 20 | His presence and influence there made him a figure in world Christendom . |
| 21 | He always understood that the papal decree imposed on himself an absolute personal obligation of obedience , but it did not give him a general responsibility for promoting the principle , or for enforcing the obedience of others . |
| 22 | But Mrs Gandhi never forgave Khan 's opposition to her scrapping the privy purses , and to his regret she did not make him a minister . |
| 23 | That did not make him a criminal under section 14 . |
| 24 | The pope did not send him a pallium until June 634 and , given the long-standing papal concern with the well-being of the church of Canterbury , a three-year interval between Honorius ' appointment and the sending of a pallium would seem to be rather a long time . |
| 25 | He was so cool now , so calm , and the fact that she was feeling utterly wretched did not bother him a bit . |
| 26 | Faced with growing hostility or boredom over Europe , M Mitterrand threatened at the weekend to hold a referendum if the two parliamentary chambers do not give him a two-thirds majority for constitutional changes . |
| 27 | Do not give him a pretext to strike you down . ’ |
| 28 | His aspect was cheerful and his speech and motion did both declare him a gentleman . ’ |
| 29 | Anyway , I do know they hung Him up on the cross so it did n't do Him a lot of good . |
| 30 | It did n't do him a lot of good in the early er in the early days , but er it did stand him in good stead later of course because he became er er a full-time official o of the er Notts area N U M. |