Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] him [adj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ferryman had kipped down with him for a while , till one night , turning over in his sleep , Jackie had given him such a clout with the iron boot it nearly took his hip off . |
| 2 | General Orsborn recognised both him and the young Australian who had given him such a memorable welcome to her homeland . |
| 3 | In 1964 , he moved to Trinidad to become Dean of Students , which was a promotion , at the UWI campus there , continuing the work he had begun in Kingston by stressing to the students the importance of discipline , physical fitness , responsibility and such like — in other words , all the values that had made him such a successful captain . |
| 4 | Men who had found him unsufferable a year or two ago began to see his abilities or his charm . |
| 5 | And a slight slip you know , had taken him half a thou over the bore . |
| 6 | In Fredegar 's narrative Childeric was exiled from the Franks for his sexual profligacy , but he arranged with his faithful follower , Wiomad , that he would return when the latter had sent him half a coin which they had divided between them . |
| 7 | This comforted him as it had comforted him half a dozen times this afternoon , but his mind remained basically uneasy . |