Example sentences of "[verb] he [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that officer , luv , I said he was a legate from the Balearics not leg him one in the bollocks but it 's a mistake anybody could have made . |
| 2 | They were out of sight of the guv'nor , so she yelled at Billy Liar and cracked him one behind the saddle . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'll search him myself at the security check . ’ |
| 4 | He needed a drink and that old swine Busacher had n't offered him anything at the villa . |
| 5 | He had lived with miracles and wonderments all his life , ever since his uncle had told him something about the family 's history and the eternal presence of Seth in their lives . |
| 6 | He thought that none of those he had spoken to could have told him anything of the killing . |
| 7 | He told the whole story to Marc , he said , and there was another row , with Marc calling him everything under the sun . |
| 8 | Oddly , if the P M risks giving him one in the next reshuffle , it might be a sign that his own confidence is returning . |
| 9 | But his immobility , long maintained , hinted at the heaviness of his thoughts , and lent him something of the awe that attached to his odious creation . |
| 10 | By then his triumphs there had given him something of the aura of the awaited one : his following was already in place ; he needed only to organize it . |
| 11 | I 'll tell him nothing of the sort , Fernando Serra , because your problems are your own , ’ she husked pityingly . |
| 12 | ‘ I gave him nothing of the sort ! ’ |
| 13 | I just gave him something on the side . |
| 14 | He had been the weaker of a hatching of two males and would almost certainly have died within a few days if local ornithologists had not taken him from the nest and reared him themselves in the hope that a home might finally be found for him as worthwhile as the Zoo … |
| 15 | He knew they were trying to tell him something in the sign language used by the deaf and dumb . |
| 16 | We had to tell him everything about the Stapletons , and he was deeply hurt when he heard the truth about the woman he loved . |