Example sentences of "[verb] him the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , there have been many discussions caused by Johnny — and his girlfriend who seems to do very little other than build up her tan on a beach and send him the odd letter in a bottle . |
| 2 | Er I felt , I 've been after Danny for nearly twelve months to come see and not been able to get him on the night I want him the only night he was able , was available was I think it was one night when we had something else on I ca n't remember what it was . |
| 3 | A peek through the window showed that the taxi had arrived , brief farewells were made to the men , and Karl left , promising to ring them the next day and making mock threats to Erika and Paul should they forget to meet him the following Sunday . |
| 4 | He had heard nothing more of the plane until a newspaper phoned him the following day , Sunday afternoon . |
| 5 | He said Mrs Mawdsley 's husband phoned him the following evening to say she had seen her doctor and had been signed off for a month . |
| 6 | But he says to he phoned him the other day on my down this morning ha so just to say , you know , that was crime of the century ! |
| 7 | Ginny wondered how he would react if she told him the simple truth . |
| 8 | When Father came home that day , Peter told him the sad story about his engine , and Father looked at it very carefully . |
| 9 | When the judge told him the only sentence he could pass was that of life imprisonment , Meehan said loudly and clearly , ‘ I want to say this , sir . |
| 10 | She resented his tone but told him the real news , Pascoe 's resignation . |
| 11 | I refreshed his glass and told him the terrible truth . |
| 12 | Erm so we then moved back towards the doorway erm and then P C requested the persons in the bed to tell him where the light switch was , which a male voice told him the approximate area where the light switch was . |
| 13 | Ken Gillance , defending , said Lamont was not connected with vice but Welsh told him the previous day she had almost been run down by one of Roth 's friends . |
| 14 | I gave McDunn the two names last night and told him the respective professions of their owners , then clammed up , just refused to say any more about them or about the body . |
| 15 | Sandison told him the whole story , the one he had told to Mrs Wilson : that he was Elsie 's brother , that he was convinced she was still alive even though she had disappeared so many years before . |
| 16 | Edouard ordered her a citron pressé , and then quietly listened as — slowly at first , then with gathering confidence — she told him the whole story . |
| 17 | And I told him the whole story of our voyage , and the danger we were now in . |
| 18 | The distant klaxons told him the whole camp was being mobilized . |
| 19 | ‘ Then , before I could stop her she got my father out of bed and told him the whole thing . |
| 20 | If he needs a more imaginative approach to biblical meditation , show him the Ignatian method . |
| 21 | His sisters did n't tell him about their books , or show him the new ones that they were writing . |
| 22 | The world No 1 blames the media for the pressure which almost cost him the Open Championship at Muirfield — and also blitzed the Americans for their win-at-all-costs attitude to the Ryder Cup . |
| 23 | The canny scribe had just persuaded the RAF to effectively give him the ultimate freebie , one which will remain the envy of flying hacks everywhere for many decades to come . |
| 24 | This danger is well demonstrated by the early efforts made to help culturally disadvantaged children , many of which simply provided each child with a dose of relevant training during the pre-school period in the expectation that this on its own would give him the required extras for normal cognitive development . |
| 25 | All I can do , Father Poole thought despairingly , is to try and give him the spiritual strength to resist such a temptation . |
| 26 | Next time he sends you greetings do give him the right salute instead of the two-fingered one . |
| 27 | My contract said very clearly that I had to have complete control of the making of the film , so I asked Darryl Zanuck if he would please replace me and I would give him the necessary time to find someone else . |
| 28 | Maybe we 'll come across a friendly native with a forked stick going in the right direction and I 'll give him the big-screen smile and hand it over . |
| 29 | First , the firm must not indicate that the customer would be a customer of a UK office and , if the customer is a private customer , must give him the prescribed disclosure warning him that all or most of the FSA protections will not apply . |
| 30 | She was shrewd enough to understand that the way he had been treated as a child would give him the added drive and determination to better himself . |