Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [verb] him [art] " in BNC.

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1 His parents seemed to have given him every encouragement and his first poems were imitations of his father 's songs .
2 His attempt to murder her seemed to have given him a new strength in the relationship .
3 He still felt ill , but the hysterics seemed to have relaxed him a bit .
4 My astonishment in coming here is to see these later pictures of his , although I always associate Basil with being a very competent , sensitive , and a typical Euston Road type of painter , I do think his association with the North seems to have done something incredible , and these later water colours , with their tremendous feeling for " wind and Yorkshire weather " seem to have given him an absolutely different and much more mature outlook .
5 ‘ So , since I do n't have to go give him a hard one in the chops , tell me about it .
6 However , his blazing indignation appears to have given him a nasty dose of alliterative-itis in a NUPE press release condemning the report as ‘ more market madness mirroring the mayhem in the mines ’ .
7 He evidently led musicians on with false promises : a long letter from the cellist Carlo Graziani details amounts owing and favours not forthcoming ( Giardini seems to have promised him a place in the Queen 's Band , though it is highly unlikely that he would have had such influence ) .
8 I had to try to give him a chance to be independent .
9 This meant Mr Packwood had to bottle feed him every three hours when he was first born .
10 So far I 'd managed to avoid giving him the exact address , but now he asked for it with a determined note in his voice — " Just in case I 'm down that way " and I was forced to invent one , praying that he 'd never check up on it .
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