Example sentences of "[verb] him [adj] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did , however , give him occasional cause for jealousy : a lover 's tiff nearly broke their engagement when Constanze indiscreetly confessed that during a game she had let another young man measure her calves . |
| 2 | The way it worked was they 'd give him 70 quid for a gram and they 'd sell it in fiver or tenner bags . |
| 3 | The solicitor said of the award : ‘ It 's a reasonable figure which will give him satisfactory compensation for a very serious road accident . ’ |
| 4 | Reserve your answer for the cameras , or you may inadvertently give him more fuel for his theme . |
| 5 | ‘ The Führer intends to meet with Field Marshal Rommel personally , to confirm his appointment as Commander of Army Group B. This will give him direct responsibility for the Atlantic Wall defences . |
| 6 | ‘ I was only aiming for the British record , ’ Wooderson declared in a state of shock which caused him sleepless nights for a week . |
| 7 | If it be a duty imposed by law upon a party regularly subpoenaed to attend from time to time to give his evidence then a promise to give him any remuneration for loss of time incurred in such attendance is a promise without consideration . |
| 8 | There 's still some who want the shrieking , whirling dervish of the old Associates days and refuse to give him any credit for growing up and wanting to just get on with it . |
| 9 | She had to give him full marks for originality . |
| 10 | At a meeting in Newcastle , the Committee of Coal Owners in Newcastle voted in favour both of Stephenson 's claim for priority and to give him some money for it . |
| 11 | Mr Mackie claimed Murray had heated up some heroin in a spoon and injected himself before giving him enough heroin for his own injection . |
| 12 | After that he went to the pet shop which he despised but which occasionally sold him broken biscuits for William , cheap . |
| 13 | Then , for the first time in three decades , Mr Wolski had reached out his hands and touched the eagle he had loved and who had given him such comfort for so long . |
| 14 | Brahms took about fifteen years to complete his First Symphony , and when it was first performed in 1876 , he was 43 — an extraordinary late symphonic debut for a composer who had been publicly proclaimed as a genius by Schumann when he was 18 , and who had gone on to justify public expectations with such works as the ‘ German Requiem ’ , which had given him financial security for life . |
| 15 | He has just the one daughter and that girl has given him great cause for concern . |
| 16 | It is understood doctors have not given him any timescale for the progress of the cancer . |
| 17 | As the conservative Senator Nunn said , in the fateful debate giving the president the powers he ( and the pro-Israeli members of Congress so fervently ) sought , Bush had not given him compelling reason for committing huge American forces to combat . |
| 18 | Jimmy Carter 's limited experience in politics had not given him adequate preparation for the demands of the White House . |
| 19 | After lending him some clubs for a series of lessons and practice , the professional can successfully advise him what type of shaft , weight , lie , thickness of grip and so forth is appropriate in his case . |
| 20 | He says , Did you pay him last week for what he did ? |
| 21 | The defendant in Allen v. Simmons ( 1978 Q.B.D. ) offered just one set of glasses and asked his audience who would pay him 30 pence for the set . |
| 22 | He felt it would leave him little time for his writing for one thing . |
| 23 | They had hit him several times for lying . |
| 24 | The man 's tone was dismissive , and Jaq had to allow him more credit for flexibility than he would have supposed . |
| 25 | The Royal College of Surgeons offered him 60 guineas for it , but he sold it to John Gamgee in November 1860 for 100 guineas . |
| 26 | Although Mr Taylor refused to reveal whether or not the Premier League deal is acceptable to him or his members , who yesterday gave him overwhelming support for necessary action , it would be foolish to embark on a strike now . |
| 27 | Josh only gave him some whisky for his own good . |
| 28 | Aye , I gave him twenty pound for that |
| 29 | There were fairly obvious warnings here for a man contemplating the future independence of his own country , but , if he was shocked by what he saw here , it was the land freed by Toussaint Louverture , Haiti , that gave him most food for thought . |
| 30 | A coach back to the team 's hotel gave him enough time for a shower and snack lunch before going back to work — more throw downs , a second net against the quicks , and a burst of fielding practice before dusk set in . |