Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] him a [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I told him a few home truths , but it was a waste of breath , there was nothing I could do . ’ |
| 2 | Micky Danby is a pratt and I owe him a few scores meself . ’ |
| 3 | I heard him a few times , he was very very entertaining , very entertaining , nice bloke really . |
| 4 | I saw him a few times more , but never alone , I wrote him two letters when I was in Spain , and he sent a postcard back . |
| 5 | I saw him a few weeks ago . |
| 6 | I saw him a few times more after that , in the months that followed , coming slowly up the lane from the station , as Millie and I stood at the gate . |
| 7 | He has received a letter from one of the farmers which I sent him a few days ago . |
| 8 | I gave him a few of the arsenical tablets I had used in my only cure . |
| 9 | After that I got us on to less dangerous ground , and I gave him a few tit-bits of intelligence , which was probably what he 'd been after . |
| 10 | And erm we er I gave him a few tips on what to revise on |
| 11 | She met him a few days after she started the job . |
| 12 | She gave him a few things , all invented , and watched as he jotted some notes in the ledger . |
| 13 | The screen shivered and cleared as he cut off , which allowed me to offer him a few choice epithets that he could n't hear . |
| 14 | Endill was thrown to the ground and it took him a few minutes to realise what had happened . |
| 15 | The sea was such a mess that it took him a few moments to be sure of the reef . |
| 16 | It took him a few minutes to find a public phone booth . |
| 17 | There was a second voice — sharp , abrasive — and it took him a few moments to identify the second voice as belonging to Jane , the maid . |
| 18 | It hardly made him a frequent visitor , but it gave him a few numbers to ring . |