Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [verb] him the " in BNC.

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1 That form bears the closest inspection and as the six-year-old has settled into his new surroundings at the Marriott Stables I give him the edge over Newton Point , whose cause will not have been helped by the rain .
2 At seventeen he joined a travelling band of gypsies who taught him the finer skills of pickpocketing until an accident to his hand six years later put paid to what would have been a very lucrative career .
3 The solicitors who gave him the court order for them to release all the details on that .
4 Indeed , it was the Moors who gave him the title by which he is best known , a contraction of the Arabic sid-y , meaning ‘ my lord ’ .
5 He was everything that the Hildebrandine Church abhorred , but he had virtues which won him the warm friendship of Marbod , the talented bishop of Rennes , and of the greatest canonist of his day , Ivo of Chartres .
6 Perhaps Richard had the best of it : at Queen Eleanor 's court he encountered troubadours and intellectuals who taught him the social graces .
7 He was quickly involved in a series of crashes which earned him the nickname
8 Fabbio did his homework among the downsizing-bent corporates which gave him the idea for Dazel : exploit the need for managing information in the network environment and give them instantaneous links to fax , printers , voice and E-mail .
9 There were sensible men who thought him the finest evangelist of his generation .
10 Jesus once said that those who had been shown the greatest mercy by God were the ones who loved him the most .
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