Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] him [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I guess that over the last six years television has given him only a quarter of her exposure . |
| 2 | And if Derry succeed , he will murmur a silent but heartfelt ‘ thank you ’ to Kevin Heffernan , the man who gave him a new outlook and sense of purpose in the sport which has made him both a local and national hero . |
| 3 | ‘ You must have brought him quite a way ? ’ |
| 4 | She admitted then she might have liked him quite a lot . |
| 5 | Years at an English public school , punctuated by all-too-brief holidays in Italy , had made him almost a stranger within his family . |
| 6 | It had taken him only a few moments to discover , from his wife 's tirade , that Hank 's book was not quite so innocent as he had imagined ; however , any book that made so much money was a good book , in his opinion , and he had defended Hank hotly . |
| 7 | It was there , in lulls in the conversation , that he became a crossword addict and began to develop the concern for correct English , the wide vocabulary , the delight in the niceties of syntax , that have made him both a witty and a hard task master for generations of Bristol students . |
| 8 | Over coffee back at the office I tried to pull myself together and sell him a traded option in copper which would , as it turned out , have made him quite a lot of money . |