Example sentences of "[verb] him his first [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 That maturity has won him his first TV starring role in ITV 's new £2 million , three-part drama serial The Blackheath Poisonings which starts on Monday .
2 He had begun to feel that Carrie was really growing to love him , and having borne him his first child the future had seemed so promising , but now today he had been reminded that everything he had hoped and prayed for could so easily crumble into dust .
3 During the previous three years , Crawford had written hundreds of letters to producers and directors in his search for work , but it was his love of cycling — he sometimes rode from South London to Brighton and back in a day that landed him his first work in repertory theatre .
4 Midnight Cowboy was to give him his first chance in over fifteen years to regain respect in the business .
5 The libraries that Hoggart remembers as giving him his first education in English literature acquired serious books of every kind .
6 The trip was a great success , the subsequent Travels in the West exhibition proving very popular in Nanjing and giving him his first taste of newspaper and television attention .
7 A right-wing corner by the left-footed Preece was met so powerfully by James that the young full-back could be proud of the header which brought him his first goal of the season …
8 When Grimsby offered him his first trial with a Football League club , he gave away a penalty after two minutes .
9 He 's become better known as a zoologist , but has n't forgotten it was Swindon that offered him his first exhibition .
10 Although he could not read or write , Burke learnt fast , but it was not until he was 18 , nearly 19 , that Parrish gave him his first fight .
11 His interest in archaeology led him into contact with Flinders Petrie , for whom he worked as an assistant from 1892 , and who gave him his first experience in excavation .
12 It also gave him his first taste of advertising as he worked as a junior on the flotation of Harrison Cowley , later to be taken over by Saatchi & Saatchi .
13 But I said I am the money I gave him his first flying lesson , I paid for it , like I bought his first three cars .
14 His new wife Fatmawati gave him his first son , Guntur , whose name means ‘ thunder ’ .
15 They gave him his first meal , of bread for the body and purifying salt for the immortal soul , and cheered as his tiny red face puckered at the taste and he yelled lustily .
16 Gungawatti , when frightened by a swarm of jungle bees , gave him his first ride on the back of a bolting elephant .
17 He had been runner-up on several occasions during his 20 years with Smith , but it was Sheelagh Boon 's six-year-old Smart Move who gave him his first win when taking the Senior Newcomers Championship .
18 BILLY JOEL is battling to save the tiny New York club that gave him his first pop break .
19 I gave him his first bath .
20 While in Mexico , Penn had found himself wielding not just his paintbrush but also the camera , and Liberman , fascinated by the results , nurtured Penn 's developing interest and gave him his first commission — a still-life cover for Vogue , October 1943 .
21 While in Mexico , Penn had found himself wielding not just the paintbrush but also the camera , and Liberman , fascinated by the results , nurtured Penn 's developing interest and gave him his first commission — a still-life cover for Vogue , October 1943 .
22 Michael Caine 's cockney Alfie ( foreign to American ears ) won him his first nomination in 1966 , but he had to play an American to win at last , twenty years later , in Hannah and Her Sisters .
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